Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Milwaukee

Milwaukee Subsidizes the Rest of Wisconsin, Not the Other Way Around

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 15, 2017 | 4 Comments

Anti-urban politicians have tried to paint Milwaukee as a den of government dependence. But the data shows it, like many cities, actually subsidizes rural and suburban areas.

The Fight for Better Access to Jobs in Detroit and Milwaukee, Using Buses

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 14, 2016 | No Comments

Low-income residents of Detroit and Milwaukee face formidable obstacles to job access. These two Rust Belt regions are consistently ranked among the most segregated in the country, and neither has a good transit system. In both regions, the places that have been growing and adding jobs fastest have been been overwhelmingly sprawling, suburban areas inaccessible to people without cars. A 2013 Brookings study […]

Wisconsin Dumps One Urban Highway Boondoggle in Favor of Another

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 19, 2015 | 5 Comments

One of the nation’s most poorly conceived highway proposals will become slightly less ridiculous. Transportation officials in Wisconsin recently announced they will no longer consider double-decking a portion of Interstate 94 in Milwaukee. The billion-dollar project would have raised the highway to building height in the Story Hill neighborhood. Wisconsin DOT hasn’t seen the light, […]

A Better Way to Spend $1 Billion Than Ramming More Roads Thru Milwaukee

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 3, 2014 | 5 Comments

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is set on widening Interstate 94, a highway that runs east-west through Milwaukee. The agency is so committed to this idea that it is proceeding, at great expense and over the objections of Milwaukee’s mayor, with a project to double-deck a portion of the road through a relatively densely populated […]

The Koch Brothers’ War on Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 25, 2014 | 52 Comments

Transit advocates around the country were transfixed by a story in Tennessee this April, when the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity made a bid to pre-emptively kill Nashville bus rapid transit. It was an especially brazen attempt by Charles and David Koch’s political network to strong-arm local transportation policy makers. But it was far from […]

WisDOT Falls Back on Old Data to Justify Double-Decker Urban Highway

By Phineas Baxandall and Jeff Inglis | Sep 19, 2014 | 1 Comment

U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group released a report yesterday, “Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future.” In it, they examine 11 of the most wasteful, least justifiable road projects underway in America right now. Here’s the latest installment in our series profiling the various bad decisions that funnel so much money to infrastructure that does […]

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