State deems work on I-94 north-south project ‘substantially complete’

June 24, 2020 3:59 pm Leave a comment

Traffic passes in July through a section of Interstate 94 that’s being rebuilt near Mount Pleasant. Republican lawmakers on Wednesday began circulating about a dozen bills dealing with transportation matters. Among other things, the proposals would allow design-build delivery on state projects. Also, rather than increasing the state’s gas tax, the legislation would have a certain amount of the taxes now collected on sales of vehicles and automotive parts set aside for the state’s transportation fund. (File photo by Kevin Harnack)

WisDOT has wrapped up its long-awaited reconstruction of Interstate 94 between Milwaukee and the Illinois state line on schedule and on budget.

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Thompson: COVID has cost WisDOT $80M this spring

June 1, 2020 3:16 pm Leave a comment

Wisconsin Department of Transportation Secretary Craig Thompson said the state's coronavirus lockdown has cost the agency about $80 million in transportation revenue this spring, setting up tough choices for how to pay for roads in the years to come.

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Man who hit road barrel faced with 5th drunken driving charge

May 5, 2020 10:51 am Leave a comment

A Lake Delton man on parole for drunken driving is faced with his fifth intoxicated driving charge after crashing his motorcycle on Interstate 94 in Jefferson County.

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Rock Road gets $16M contract for I-94 work

February 17, 2020 1:24 pm Leave a comment

Traffic travels Interstate 39/90 near Madison in 2016. A contract to rebuild a section of the interstate south of Madison, in Rock County, was part of the nearly $500 million worth of contracts the state put out for bid in its March letting. (Photo by Kevin Harnack)

State officials have awarded Rock Road Cos. a nearly $16 million to resurface a stretch of Interstate 94 between Madison and Oconomowoc and undertake two related bridge projects.

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$127M project would expand I-94 near Twin Cities

October 10, 2019 11:05 am Leave a comment

C.S. McCrossan submitted the low price of $127.149 million Wednesday to expand Interstate 94 between Maple Grove and Rogers. In this file photo, crews work on a stretch of I-94 between St. Michael and Rogers. (Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Transportation)

Construction bids for the expansion of Interstate 94 northwest of the Twin Cities came in at just over $127 million on Wednesday as C.S. McCrossan beat out two other contractors in a best-value competition.

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Owners near Foxconn say they were misled. Now their homes are gone

September 3, 2019 6:00 am Leave a comment

Kim Mahoney stands in the kitchen of her house in Mount Pleasant on July 1. She and her family have not accepted an offer from the village of Mount Pleasant to sell their new house and property to make way for the Foxconn plant. “Their offer doesn’t make us whole, it comes up way short,” she says. Mahoney says several of her neighbors were pressured into selling their houses for road widenings that are no longer planned. (Photos by Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch)

In late summer 2017, Cathy and Rodney Jensen started hearing rumors that their Mount Pleasant neighborhood could be changing.

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Groups again questioning I-94 expansion plans, other projects

June 26, 2019 3:47 pm Leave a comment

Traffic travels on Interstate 94 near Hawley Road, west of Milwaukee’s downtown, during morning rush hour on Thursday. Various state lawmakers have announced plans to push ahead again with a planned expansion of the I-94 between 16th and 70th streets even though the federal government rescinded a record of decision for that project last fall. (Staff photo by Kevin Harnack)

Various environmental and civil-rights groups are calling on the state Legislature to abandon plans for a long-proposed expansion of Interstate 94 west of downtown Milwaukee and other big highway projects.

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MnDOT will review I-94 bids that exceed estimate

May 24, 2019 3:08 pm Leave a comment

The $103.9 million apparent low bid from the joint venture of Hoffman Construction and PCI Roads blew past MnDOT’s estimate of $75 million to $85 million for the project, which will rebuild and expand 14 miles of I-94 between Monticello and Clearwater. Shafer Contracting, $108.7 million, and Michels Corp., $113.85 million, also put in bids.

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Drunken driver busts through barricade into I-94 work zone in Racine County

May 20, 2019 2:57 pm Leave a comment

Racine County officials say a drunken driver crashed through a barricade and drove the wrong way into a section of Interstate 94 that had been closed for construction early Monday morning.

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BUDGET ANALYSIS: Evers’ plan would prioritize rehab over southeast megaprojects

March 26, 2019 3:43 pm Leave a comment

Wisconsin's state highway rehabilitation program would see a boost while spending on major highway projects in Southeast Wisconsin would suffer, under Gov. Tony Evers' executive budget proposal.

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