Category: Transit

This has been sitting on the back burner for some time. A letter to the editor from the September 28, 2017 edition of the print Milwaukee Journal Sentinel decried the operation of the Mitchell International Airport…fondly remembered by us old farts as General Billy Mitchell Field. I don’t want to…

Well, apparently bowing to pressure from Governor Walker, the latest budget proposal coming out of the state legislature proposes raising the gas tax but lowering income taxes. So essentially funding infrastructure while stealing from education, safety and public welfare programs that the state runs. I have written about this at…

I’ve been working on this one in the back of my head for a while but after writing about the arcane thinking in Madison about private school tax credits, I am going for it now. And this will be brief cause I am not bringing in links or quotes or…

Wisconsin continues to debate how to increase funds for transportation (in Wisconsin that translates to build more freeways) as gas tax revenues continue to fall as cars get more fuel efficient or don’t use gasoline at all. Instead the governor continues to put highway construction on the credit card or…

There is new talk about upgrading the Amtrak route from Milwaukee to Chicago with new track and infrastructure and more trains…but this could have been accomplished years ago if not of the interference of one Governor Scott Walker. sigh.

It looks like our “fiscally responsible” Governor Scott Walker’s “plan” for funding transportation projects in Wisconsin is simple: kick the can down the road by borrowing $500 million. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received an early look at the plan, which the DOT will submit Thursday and the governor will use…

After Gov. Scott Walker cancelled the State of Wisconsin’s contracts with Spanish train maker Talgo, that company sued the state for breach of contract. It looks like Talgo’s lawsuit against the state has been setttled, and Wisconsin’s taxpayers are $10 million poorer as a result. The state will pay a…

Despite all of their claims to the contrary, the GOP under the dome in Madison can’t wait to waste taxpayer money. Legal work by an outside firm from the state of MICHIGAN cost the state taxpayers $2.2 million dollars on a $500,000 contract (yeah that’s right) to provide advice on…

Well isn’t this something?!?!? House Republicans voted Wednesday to chop about a fifth of Amtrak’s budget, less than a day after a deadly train crash that Democrats pointed to as a prime example of the dangers of shortchanging the nation’s transportation needs. They also rebuffed Democrats’ attempts to provide money…

Welcome to Scott Walker’s Wisconsin, where the state’s roads are literally crumbling beneath our tires. Wisconsin’s roads are the third-worst in the nation and the potholes and other problems that plague them cost drivers in some cities almost twice the national average in repairs and associated costs, according to a…