Published: July 6, 2010
Tags: budget, Chippewa County, counties, Dane County, Fedderly, Kathleen Falk, Ramberg, roadwork, St. Croix County, Stelzner, Wisconsin County Highway Association
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
Wisconsin county highway commissioners, lacking federal stimulus money and local revenue, are facing the likelihood of fewer projects in 2011.
“When county budgets are tight and they’re looking for ways to save money, it becomes easy to say, ‘Let’s just cut a highway project or two,’” said Bruce Stelzner, Chippewa County Highway Commissioner.
Chippewa County [...]
Published: June 16, 2010
Tags: Bess Crowley, Crowley Construction, Mega Rentals, Mike Aders, Notbohm, road paint, roadwork, Sherwin Williams, striping, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
Comments: 1
The paint shortages hitting county highway crews also are affecting contractors rebuilding state highways.
Paint shipments that used to arrive within a week of ordering now take about six weeks, said Bess Crowley, president of Crowley Construction Corp., a Wauwatosa-based painting contractor that works on state highway construction.
Crowley said the state’s decision to approve a new [...]
Published: June 11, 2010
Tags: Dane County, detour, Falk, Highway K, roadwork, stimulus
Road crews will begin work to improve County Highway K, north of Middleton, on Monday.
The resurfacing project between County Highway M and Q is being paid for through a combination of federal stimulus money secured by Dane County along with county property tax dollars. The total cost of the project is $800,000, with $600,000 of [...]
Published: May 26, 2010
Tags: attorney, budget, City Hall, Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Department of Public Works, office, roadwork
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Milwaukee’s dedication to street construction is putting city department leaders on a bumpy road toward office renovation approvals.
The Milwaukee Department of Public Works’ proposed long-range budget dedicates $85.8 million to street projects between 2011 and 2016, starting with $15.3 million in next year’s budget. But city officials charged with prioritizing projects are wondering how [...]
Published: May 24, 2010
Tags: Aders, Barron County, Chippewa County, Ennis Traffic Safety Solutions, Mega Rentals, Notbohm, paint, roadwork, Servi, shortage, Stelzner, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
Wisconsin highway planners and suppliers are coping for the first time with the prospect they won‘t have enough paint for the year’s road projects.
News of nationwide road paint shortages rippled across Wisconsin in the past week after paint producers such as Dallas-based Ennis Traffic Safety Solutions and the Road Safety Markings Association sent [...]
Published: May 18, 2010
Tags: construction money, infrastructure, Jim Bohl, MATC, Mike Sargent, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee TIF district, roadwork, Schoewe, Stibal, tax-incremental financing, TIF, TIF Joint Review Board, Van Hollen
By Sean Ryan
Municipal officials facing backlogs of roadwork are waiting on a Wisconsin attorney general’s opinion that could give them a new source of construction money.
The idea of using tax-incremental financing to rebuild deteriorating roads started in the city of Milwaukee but is catching the attention of other municipalities. When Milwaukee requested to dedicate $395,000 [...]
Published: May 14, 2010
Tags: B.R. Amon & Sons, Capitol Pavers, Chiovatero, J.P. Walker, John Loosen, New Berlin, paving, Payne & Dolan Inc., roadwork, street resurfacing, Tom Amon, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, WisDOT
By Sean Ryan
New Berlin officials wonder why only one bidder pursued a $1.7 million road project at a time when paving company reps say they are hungry for work.
The bid the city received from Payne & Dolan Inc., Waukesha, is higher than the amount budgeted for the project, so the city this week will rebid [...]
Published: May 12, 2010
Tags: biomass, Bryan Walker, Charter Street power plant, John Harrod, Madison Traffic Engineering Department, natural gas, oil fuel, power plant, reconstruction, roadwork, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Madison
By Paul Snyder
Madison traffic planners are backing off a directive to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to rebuild streets and intersections surrounding the Charter Street power plant.
But Bryan Walker, the city‘s engineering program specialist, said the university and city should be ready for some roadwork during and after the estimated $250 million conversion of the plant [...]
Published: March 9, 2010
Tags: Balistreri, Bruskewitz, Chequamegon Bay, Chippewa Valley, Craig Thompson, Dennis Osgood, Graef-USA, Jim Doyle, John Kissinger, Kathleen Falk, La Crosse, La Crosse County Highway Department, Merritt, Regional Transit Authority, roadwork, Robin Vos, RTA, Shilling, southeastern Wisconsin, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, Willie Hines
By Paul Snyder
Roadwork deserves a share of the money raised by regional transit authorities, according to a lawmaker who argues spending should match the realities of transportation.
“It’s silly to think that 99 percent of the people that use a car to get to work or the store are going to give that up because a [...]
Published: February 19, 2010
Tags: bridge, Interstate 35W bridge, Metropolitan Freeway System 2009 Congestion Report, Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT, roadwork
By Brian Johnson
Dolan Media Newswires
Minneapolis — Traffic congestion is up slightly in the metro area, according to a new report from the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
The newly released Metropolitan Freeway System 2009 Congestion Report found that 18.2 percent of roadway miles in the metro area were congested in 2009, up from 17.3 percent in 2008. [...]
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