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![]() | verafero: Metra! Your fireworks jpeg or java class or whatever it is keeps FREEZING my FIREFOX!! All I want is the July 3 train sched! Damn it! about 1 day ago |
| By Bobby Tanzilo Managing Editor E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Bobby Tanzilo |
| Published Nov. 27, 2007 at 11:19 a.m. |
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Last week, Milwaukee Ald. Robert Bauman introduced a Common Council resolution supporting a reassessment of the state's transportation goals. Although Bauman said he supports work to fix Interstate 94, he doesn't support expanding the highway.
"Yes, I-94 needs to be rebuilt," he said in a statement, "but it does not need to be expanded given there are clear and ready proposals for commuter and high speed rail to serve the same corridor."
What do you think? Bauman's resolution will be taken up by the Public Works Committee of the Common Council at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at City Hall. Here's your chance to voice your opinion.
Bauman says that the reason the KRM project that would connect Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha with Chicagoland's Metra lines has not moved forward is due to a lack of local funding. At the same time, the state, he noted, plans to spend nearly $2 billion to fix and expand I-94 between Milwaukee and the Illinois border.
"KRM rail service is stalled (because) local communities must find a local funding source for the project though there's no such requirement for the I-94 road project."
The solution, according to Bauman, is collaboration and synergy among the projects, instead of the competition between the supporters of those differing plans.
"We must stop and consider the overlap they provide and distribute dollars and costs effectively among them."
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