The proposed Verona Road upgrade price tag is too high, and it is shrugged off as a "normal" cost of transportation. The design is business-as-usual, giving priority to vehicle speed and traffic volume, at considerable cost and with negative consequences for the environment and the social fabric of our neighborhoods.
This $502 million two mile expressway doesn't even solicit a yawn from the vocal minority interested in reducing the size of government and decreasing taxes. And there are billions more planned for road expansion (a single project to add lanes on I-90 to the Illinois border will cost $1 billion). The silence from the "tea-bagger" faction is deafening. In comparison, light rail in the region or high speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison draws howls of protest from the right-wing of the political divide even though the cost of any proposed rail project is less than a single expressway interchange or interstate expansion. Comments on the supplemental and draft environmental impact statement (SDEIS/DEIS) reports for the Dane County US 18/151 (Verona Road) corridor are encouraged from all members of the public and are due by Friday, December 17, 2010. http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/d1/verona/index.htm _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
