White Elephant Watch: Vol. 3 Wisconsin State Highway 23

Infrastructure is the foundation of America’s society and economy. Yet not all investments are worthwhile. In fact, unnecessary projects create a long-term, unproductive cost burden—a form of infrastructure overhang. The “White Elephant Watch” series profiles projects that demonstrate the failures of the current U.S. policy approach to transportation infrastructure.

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Legal challenge spotlights shaky traffic forecasting key to highway projects

By Rob Schultz – Wisconsin State Journal. As legislators debate how to trim the massive transportation portion of the next state budget, a federal judge has delayed a $166 million highway expansion project in eastern Wisconsin amid questions about the traffic forecasting methods that helped justify it.

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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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