Rebalance Transportation Spending to Match Needs

A new, alternative Transportation Budget for the state of Wisconsin calls for reduced spending on highway expansion for projects that have not been experiencing increases in traffic would help fund local transportation needs.

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Roadbuilders take on 1000 Friends of Wisconsin – and they get totally tripped up in the facts

Roadbuilder lobbyist Craig Thompson took on an opinion piece that we wrote for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, calling for less spending on highway expansion. Not surprisingly Mr. Thompson presented factually inaccurate and misleading arguments in his critique of our work.

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Wisconsin ruling sheds light on transportation ‘boondoggles’

Posted on 06/05/2015 by Andy Balaskovitz at Midwest Energy News. In states across the Midwest, advocates are challenging transportation administrators and elected officials over what they see as an ongoing, unnecessary build-out of highway infrastructure rooted in 20th-century planning.

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Lawmakers need to curb state highway projects

Originally posted in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Opinion page, by Steve Hiniker. Taxpayers scored a huge victory recently when U.S. District judge Lynn Adelman ruled that the expansion of a 17-mile stretch of state Highway 23 near Fond du Lac was no longer eligible for federal highway funds.

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StongTowns Podcast – 1000 Friends v. United States DOT

By Charles Marohn. www.StrongTowns.org. This podcast features an interview with Steve Hiniker, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, the plaintiff that prevailed in a recent lawsuit against the USDOT, WisDOT and others.

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Federal Court: Wisconsin Uses Bogus Traffic Data to Justify Highways

This article was originally featured on streetsblog.net. By Angie Schmitt. State departments of transportation all over the country use specious traffic projections to justify hugely expensive road widening projects. That’s how you end up with the graph on the right — showing how DOTs continued to forecast traffic growth year after year, even as driving stagnated.

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