Two Wisconsin lawmakers are joining the fight to delay preliminary engineering work for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail project. State Reps. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, and Robin Vos, R-Racine, sent a letter to the Federal Transit Administration asking that it deny the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority‘s application to begin preliminary engineering on the estimated $232.7 million rail [...]
Published: June 17, 2010
Tags: Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail, KRM, Lee Holloway, Michael Mayo, Milwaukee County bus system, Milwaukee County Regional Transit Authority, Ostby, Southeast Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Yunker
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By Sean Ryan Local supporters of the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail project are divided as Milwaukee County officials try to delay project engineering. The Southeast Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority within a week will apply for federal approval to begin engineering the estimated $232.7 million rail project. But Milwaukee County RTA representatives are asking federal officials to [...]
Published: May 17, 2010
Tags: Antaramian, Barca, buses, FTA, Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail, KRM, Lee Holloway, Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, Ostby, Rail, regional transit, RTA, Southeastern Regional Transit Authority, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Yunker
By Sean Ryan Planners of the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail Monday gave up on waiting for state approval for transit taxes and chose to apply for federal planning money. The Southeastern Regional Transit Authority will not get federal construction money for the estimated $232.7 million project without a state law letting local governments raise taxes to [...]
By Sean Ryan and Paul Snyder The volume of opposition to using taxes to pay for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line rose Thursday to match an increase in proposed project borrowing. A regional transit authority bill headed to the state Assembly now would let borrowing for the KRM project go as high as $250 million, [...]
Published: April 1, 2010
Tags: Gottlieb, Harnish, high-speed rail, Midwest High Speed Rail Association, Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission, Ostby, Rail, stimulus, U.S. Department of Transportation, Vos
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By Sean Ryan Unlike the first high-speed rail grants Wisconsin received, future federal payouts will require the state put up its own money. But the state already has problems maintaining its roads and should not shell out money from the transportation budget to get federal rail grants, said Rep. Mark Gottlieb, R-Port Washington, the Wisconsin Assembly’s [...]
Published: January 28, 2010
Tags: Chicago, Harnish, high-speed rail, Kliewer, Madison, Midwest High Speed Rail Association, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Ostby, rail spur, transportation reauthorization bill
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By Sean Ryan Wisconsin received $822 million from the $8 billion the federal government awarded Thursday for rail projects, but transit supporters want more. The state will use $810 million to build a high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee, but that represents only the middle of a planned rail spur that eventually will stretch [...]
Published: December 15, 2009
Tags: car rental, commuter rail, Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line, KRM, Larson, Mitchell, Ostby, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority, tax, Wisconsin Car Rental Alliance
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By Sean Ryan Regional planners in southeast Wisconsin can place an $18 tax on car rentals to pay for the Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail line. But authority is not enough to justify a tax that could further damage an already beleaguered industry, according to tax opponents. “Car-rental business is down 30 percent compared to the same [...]
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