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Posted by Zach on August 28, 2010, at 1:11 pm

Beck rally attendees don’t mind socialized mass transit!

How’d all those millions and millions of attendees at Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington D.C. get to and from the rally?

They jammed the D.C. Metro rail stations, notes James Rowen.

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Posted by Proud Progressive on August 19, 2010, at 3:09 pm

DOH!!!!

The state Department of Transportation has dropped plans for a high-speed rail station in Oconomowoc, claiming city officials said they didn’t want one. City Administrator Diane Gard and Mayor James Daley said, they have no idea why state DOT officials believe Oconomowoc was not interested in a station.

Kudos to the Brew City Brawler, [...]

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Posted by Zach on July 7, 2010, at 5:01 am

Support for building new roads below 50%

According to the People Speak Poll conducted by the Public Policy Forum, support for adding new lanes to I-94 between Milwaukee and Waukesha drew the support of only 49% of those who responded, while 39% of those who responded were opposed to building new lanes.

However, while support for adding new lanes to I-94 [...]

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Posted by Greg K on July 5, 2010, at 11:34 pm

Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) has a challenger?

Word on the street in Franklin was that Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) will have a challenger for his AD-82 seat. More interesting is that the challenger isn’t a Democrat!

I was able to confirm that with Larry Gamble, who is one of the founders of  Franklin-based Wisconsin GrandSons of Liberty. Gamble told me that [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on May 23, 2010, at 11:05 pm

Scott Walker – Epitomizes “Male, Pale & Stale” with Rail Position

I love Katrina Vanden Heuvel’s statement that the GOP is “male, pale & stale”. As I continue to read the policy positions of WI GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker, his positions match up with this characterization. I’ll skip over the “male” and “pale” components, since that is a given, but the “stale” one needs further exploration. Scott Walker’s antidote for what ails the state seems to rest on a single stale and discredited premise that we’ve seen often from the GOP – cut taxes by decimating government to “grow the economy”. Nowhere have I seen a statement of any sort of vision on how he wants to help the state grow other than through his efforts to cut taxes. Especially telling of his lack of vision, imagination and economic development prowess is his position against railroads of the high speed inter-regional, local commuter or streetcar variety. [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on April 27, 2010, at 11:52 am

Wisconsin #2 in Best Roads in the Nation

Reader’s Digest had an interesting ranking of the Best, Worst and Deadliest Roads in the nation. From the rankings, WI came out #2 in the Best Roads category and #37 in the deadliest roads category. Kudos to the DOT, Governor and people of Wisconsin on these results. [...]

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Posted by Zach on April 13, 2010, at 8:14 pm

The two sides of Terrence Wall’s mouth

Terrence Wall in June, 2007, singing the praises of trains as a transit option: “…I do support Kathleen Falk’s commuter rail proposal. …Some people say that commuter rail won’t work and people won’t ride it. Well let me tell you different. When I worked in London during my summer internship with Prudential in 1988, [...]

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Posted by MadCityMan on April 12, 2010, at 4:48 pm

High Speed Rail – Tom Barrett Gets It

We have two diametrically opposed perspectives on economic development in Wisconsin, that of the GOP represented by gubernatorial candidates Scott Walker and Mark Neumann versus that of Democratic candidate Tom Barrett when it comes to the importance of high speed rail in Wisconsin. On the one hand, you have GOP candidates demonstrating their lack of vision and on the other, you have the Democratic candidate and current Governor recognizing the importance of high speed rail as part of an overall economic development platform. [...]

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Posted by Zach on March 30, 2010, at 5:26 am

The Walker Freeway Fabrication

The gubernatorial campaign of Republican Scott Walker has been making hay of the recent closure of a ramp in the Zoo Interchange, attempting to portray Tom Barrett as being responsible for the closure, but the Barrett campaign has hit back at Walker, pointing out that blame is going to be assigned for the closure [...]

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Posted by Zach on March 6, 2010, at 7:23 am

Downtown Milwaukee: it’s gang infested!

As I’m sure those of you who live in/near the city of Milwaukee are aware, downtown Milwaukee is “gang infested,” at least according to Nathan Sass, who wrote the following in reference to news that a high speed train would be built between Milwaukee and Madison:

With stops like:

Scenic slum land, oops, I [...]

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