SEWRPC's North-South
I-94 corridor plan for Milwaukee County now under consideration
by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
SEWRPC
-- the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning
Commission -- projects 44 Milwaukee homes would
be destroyed to make way for larger freeway interchanges.
For the entire project, including Racine, Kenosha,
and Milwaukee Counties, 68 homes, nine businesses,
and 13.5 million to 13.8 million
square feet of land would be consumed by freeway.
Some 1.1 million square feet of wetlands
and 1.9 million square feet of primary
environmental corridor would be destroyed.
Gov.
Doyle has requested about $30 million in his 2005-07
budget to begin engineering and environmental studies
and to begin acquiring properties for the project.
Do
freeways hurt property values? "That makes
sense," says Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Secretary Frank Busalacchi. Listen to his exchange
with State Rep. Josh Zepnick (D-Milwaukee).
Listen
to WisDOT Secretary Frank Busalacchi come very close
to endorsing freeway expansion along the North-South
Corridor before the first engineering or
environmental study has even begun.
"The
thought process is obviously, if you're out there
and you're going to be doing the work, why...."
he tells State Rep. Jerry Petrowski (R-Marathon).
WisDOT
information regarding real
estate acquisition for the North-South
corridor project.
Contracts:
$49,900 for traffic forecasting to Earth
Tech.
