With government officials proposing to spend roughly $150 million to increase the number of trains traveling Amtrak's Hiawatha line between Chicago and Milwaukee, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is asking the public what it thinks about the plans.

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The Legislature's budget committee has adopted parts of the state Department of Transportation's plan to close a $63.5 million deficit in the state's roads fund.

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State transportation officials released a new plan Monday to delay reconstruction work on southeastern Wisconsin's freeways and scale back road aid to local governments in hopes of closing a looming deficit in the state's transportation fund.

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For the ninth time in the last 10 years, the Amtrak Hiawatha rail line between Milwaukee and Chicago has set a ridership record.

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The possibility the state could back off constructing a Milwaukee maintenance building for two Talgo Inc. trains surprised the president and CEO of the company.

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Republicans on the state’s budget committee want to study whether a maintenance building for new trains bought in 2009 should be built in Milwaukee or whether they should be maintained out of state.

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The state Department of Transportation will request $5 million from legislators next week to start preliminary engineering and design for a passenger rail car maintenance building near the Milwaukee Intermodal Station.

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