Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Milwaukee

Poor Transit Access and Wisconsin’s Staggering Black Incarceration Rate

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 18, 2013 | 1 Comment

The state of Wisconsin imprisons a higher proportion of black men than any other state. Almost 13 percent of the state’s African American men are behind bars — nearly twice the national average. In Milwaukee County, according to a recent report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison [PDF], more than half of black men in their […]

It’s Tulsa vs. Milwaukee in the Parking Madness Championship!

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 9, 2013 | 48 Comments

This is it — the final, epic showdown of Parking Madness. We started with 16 reader-submitted contenders for the title of America’s Worst Parking Crater, and Milwaukee and Tulsa have emerged from three rounds of voting to face off in the championship. Only one will be immortalized and receive the “Golden Crater,” Streetsblog’s prize for asphalt […]

Final Four Parking Madness Matchup: Milwaukee vs. Dallas

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 5, 2013 | 13 Comments

We’re down to just four cities: Milwaukee, Dallas, Houston, and Tulsa. But only one can be the champion of Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American downtown. Today is a very exciting day, because we’re kicking off the Final Four with two venerable parking competitors: Milwaukee and Dallas. Milwaukee has […]

The “Elite Eight” of Parking Madness: Milwaukee vs. Columbia

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 3, 2013 | 9 Comments

So far, Texas is really dominating our Parking Madness tournament. The two Final Four spots awarded so far have gone to Lone Star heavyweights Dallas and Houston. We might have an all-Texas final. But there are still two remaining spots in the Final Four of terrible downtown parking craters. One of those spots is going […]

Parking Madness Kicks Off With Milwaukee vs. Jersey City – Cast Your Vote!

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 21, 2013 | 20 Comments

Earlier this month we asked you: What is the worst parking crater in America? What is the ugliest parking scar draining the life from a downtown? And Streetsblog readers answered. In all we received 23 submissions from nearly as many states, from the blazing blacktop of San Bernardino, California, to the asphalt expanses of Philadelphia […]

WisDOT Faces Civil Rights Suit Over $1.7 Billion “Zoo Interchange”

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 17, 2012 | 13 Comments

In the politically polarized Milwaukee region, there are two widely divergent visions of what transportation should do. There’s the Waukesha vision, which might be summarized as all highways, no transit. This suburban Republican stronghold — one of the most conservative counties in the country — has for years been systematically severing the already limited transit connections […]

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