Walker, Barrett support Milwaukee lakefront work
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A construction project is being planned along downtown Milwaukee’s lakefront that officials say will ease traffic congestion and free up land for development.
The plan was announced Monday with a rare show of bipartisan support between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report says the project involves extending the lakefront Lincoln Memorial Drive into the city’s Historic Third Ward, a downtown neighborhood. It would also move I-794 ramps.
Walker has agreed to have the state Department of Transportation pay for the new ramps. DOT officials previously wanted the city to cover the estimated $16 million price tag.
Barrett says the city would finance other improvements through a proposed tax district centering on an insurance company’s planned $300 million building downtown.
Mar 12, 2013 at 11:15 a.m.
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More road money funneled to Milwaukee where I90/39 is still in limbo due to funding and where it will come from. Yet Milwaukee has no problem sucking money from the state to build ramps roads etc.
Mar 12, 2013 at 9:14 a.m.
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More land destroyed Wislady you really do not have any respect for land, as no matter what is destroyed, if done by your boy Scooter you will agree.
Mar 11, 2013 at 5:19 p.m.
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Thanks, Governor Walker and Mayor Barrett.
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