Published: July 14, 2010
Tags: commuter rail, Dane County, high-speed rail, Rail, referendum, Regional Transit Authority, RTA, transit plan, Transportation, vote
Comments: 1
By Tony Anderson
Special to The Daily Reporter
A Dane County supervisor opposed to the cost of commuter rail wants to put the project to a countywide vote this fall.
“We’re trying to put their feet to the fire and say, ‘Let’s have this referendum,’” said first-term Supervisor Bill Clausius, referring to members of the Dane County Regional [...]
Published: April 2, 2010
Tags: bridges, high-speed rail, Rail, roads, stimulus, Transportation, Washington
Comments: 14
To the editor:
Let’s ask ourselves: How did Wisconsin get in this mess?
The current administration in Washington put taxpayer money out for job stimulus. The mistake in Washington was to specify and target specific types of projects.
The types of projects were determined by anti-fossil fuel, anti-car social thinking, not what is best for our country, like high-paying [...]
Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: filibuster, gas tax, Jim Bunning, surface transportation, Transportation
To the editor:
The filibuster is over but the lesson lives on.
Incredible as it seems, the nation’s most important source of surface transportation funding lapsed this month for the first time in its history due to a bizarre argument in which, somehow, both sides were simultaneously right and dead wrong.
On one side of the argument, a [...]
Published: February 23, 2010
Tags: Associated General Contractors of America, Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Congress, Craig Thompson, Deery, federal government, highway, jobs bill, Traas, Transportation, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, Yaksich
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
The federal government will hemorrhage $11.1 billion in 2010 highway money if Congress doesn’t pass a bill by Sunday to temporarily plug the leak.
Wisconsin has $200.7 million at stake in the Congressional debate over jobs bills that would prevent the $11.1 billion reduction in the nationwide highway program.
The federal transportation spending law expired [...]
Published: February 4, 2010
Tags: Devine, highway, Peterson, Rail, Sales Automations Support Inc., sales tax, Schuldt, southeast Wisconsin, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, thompson, toll, transit, Transportation, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin, Yunker
By Sean Ryan
A roomful of people who spoke in harmony about the need for more transportation money broke into discord while sharing ideas about how to get it.
Southeast Wisconsin business owners, transportation planners, elected officials and citizen activists gathered Thursday to discuss how the region can rise to the multibillion-dollar challenge of rebuilding highways and [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State legislators will get a chance this week to ask questions about last month’s anemic deer hunt.
The Assembly Fish and Wildlife Committee and the Senate Transportation, Tourism, Forestry and Natural Resources Committee plan to hold a public hearing Thursday morning at the state Capitol on the deer hunt.
Department of Natural Resources [...]
OSHA reports
• Rojas Plastering, Waukesha, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on Sept. 1 to reduce a $2,000 scaffolding citation to $1,000, a $2,000 aerial-lifts citation to $1,000 and an $800 fall-protection-training citation to $400. The company was issued the citations Aug. 14 during a drywall and insulation job at 2315 N. 124th St., Brookfield.
• [...]
Published: September 25, 2009
Tags: contractors, elected, federal stimulus, road construction, Transportation
By David Winzelberg
Dolan Media
When Long Island was shortchanged by a lack of federal stimulus dollars for transportation projects, local roadway contractors and elected officials complained bitterly. And that’s no surprise, since cash from projects paid for with public money keeps both groups afloat.
There’s a lot of money in roads. They’re expensive to build, costly [...]
Published: August 26, 2009
Tags: Assembly Committee on Transportation, bill, engineers, Local Roads Improvement Program, Transportation, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
A state lawmaker is challenging a Wisconsin Department of Transportation rule that forces municipalities to hire outside engineers for local projects eligible for state money.
“From my perspective, if a city is already employing an engineer, it makes more sense to use those services that are already being paid for,” said state Rep. Jeff Smith, [...]
Published: August 25, 2009
Tags: budget, shortfall, Transportation, Transportation Development Association of Wisconsin Inc., Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Joint Committee on Finance, WisDOT
Paul Snyder
paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com
Wisconsin’s transportation budget faces the latest in a long line of blows — a $49.1 million budget shortfall for 2009.
The state’s Joint Committee on Finance on Thursday will discuss a Wisconsin Department of Transportation plan to help cope with the shortfall: lapsing $33.3 million in major highway development and state highway rehabilitation money for [...]
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