Re: [Bikies] State to Pave County 13 Years Earlier

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:00:25 -0800 

The biggest irony of this becomes obvious in the second paragraph:

> More than 30 years ago, the DOT officials foresaw the importance of the
> corridor stretching between Madison and Janesville...

Um, last I checked, there already _is_ a high-speed auto thoroughfare in "the corridor 
... between Madison and Janesville"; it's the [EMAIL PROTECTED]&#*in' INTERSTATE!

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Paul T. O'Leary
Desktop Insurgent
Madison, WI USA
Ever mindful of the need to balance the needs of the environment with the selfish jerks who live in the exurbs and drive SOV to Madison every day and need a daily taxpayer subsidy so they can drive 70 mph to their Madison job, DOT has decided to advance the date of Highway 14 widening south of Oregon from 2020 to 2007.  This unnecessary highway gets the fast track while taxpayers get annual 18% tuition increases at the UW--but tuition increases are not tax increases, says John-Mary PanzerGard, spokesperson for the Evil Empire controlling the legislature.
 
 
Rural Oregon Residents Angry About Highway 14 Expansion
Traffic Picking Up Between Madison, Janesville

POSTED: 7:30 a.m. CST November 17, 2003

OREGON, Wis. -- Some Oregon residents are angry over the Department of Transporation's plans to build a new stretch of highway 14.

More than 30 years ago, the DOT officials foresaw the importance of the corridor stretching between Madison and Janesville, so they bought land with the intention of using it when the time came, which is now, officials said.

Farmers have rented and farmed the state land for more than 30 years, but the quiet Oregon farmland will soon be the new and improved Highway 14 corridor.

The news didn't exactly take Mike Berry by surprise. He bought his rural Oregon home 13 years ago.

"See where the trees are, that's where the right of way is -- we butt up directly to the right of way," Berry said. "When I saw there was all this nice wooded land, my first question was, 'Who owns it?' For a lot of reasons, I was just curious. Then I found out the DOT did."

Back then, the DOT had scheduled the project for 2020, but with tremendous growth in Oregon and Brooklyn, the timeline was moved up to 2007.

The new Highway 14 wil be wider and stretch from Highway 138 to Highway 92.

Instead of building new, some Oregon residents have argued the DOT should just expand the current highway, but officials said that would cost nearly $10 million more and cause more heartache.

"Fortunately, we have that where we don't have to go back to people and buy them out," said Mike Rampetsreiter, WisDOT project manager.

Familes, including the Berrys, might sell anyway, if they can.

"It might be a hard sell with the highway right there," Berry said.

As it stands, the Highway 14 corridor will go under construction in spring of 2007 and the 138 interchange in spring of 2008.

The widening of Highway 14 from Oregon north to the beltline starts in spring of 2014.
 
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."  -- Voltaire

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