Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Waukesha County leaders are bristling over a Milwaukee proposal to prevent expanding the Zoo Interchange during its reconstruction. “It’s very important to realize the city of Milwaukee is not driving this discussion per se,” said state Sen. ...
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Read More »Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin roadworkers are at the mercy of inattentive drivers and a difficult-to-enforce move-over law. “Ultimately, the orange barrel doesn’t do much to protect us,” said Bruce Stelzner, Chippewa County highway commissioner and president of the Wisconsin Counties ...
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Read More »Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com State Sen. Jim Sullivan wants to keep the Zoo Interchange on track for a 2012 reconstruction, but can’t unless more money is put into the proposed budget. Gov. Jim Doyle in 2006 moved up the Zoo Interchange ...
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Read More »Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com No one bid on the sign-bridge fabrication in the second round of Wisconsin Department of Transportation stimulus project lettings (PDF) Wednesday. Although WisDOT identified low bidders for almost $77 million worth of projects, the sign bridge fabrication ...
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Read More »Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com A Fox Valley citizens group faces a difficult task convincing state lawmakers to pry money from highway projects for a passenger rail spur connecting Milwaukee to Green Bay. “Without a decent rail connection, we’ll end up as ...
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Read More »Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The Wisconsin Department of Transportation on Wednesday lost a lawsuit filed by an Oshkosh landowner demanding more money for property the state acquired through eminent domain. The court decision upheld a landowner’s ability to use the selling ...
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Read More »Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com A bidding error by LaLonde Contractors Inc. cost the Milwaukee company a state road construction project and increased the price of the job by more than $800,000. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation on Tuesday awarded to Waukesha-based ...
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Read More »Brendan O’Brien Special to The Daily Reporter Along with death and taxes, summer road construction is one of life’s few guarantees for Wisconsinites. That means road workers on heavily traveled arteries, sometimes just feet from traffic. Technology offers new devices ...
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Read More »Melissa Rigney Baxter Special to The Daily Reporter Sometimes Mother Nature knows best. Technological advances in concrete and filtration are offering new methods for managing runoff from highways. But rain gardens and ponds remain among the most effective ways to ...
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