Re: US 12 - Fort Atkinson, WI EIS hearing

On 29 Nov 2005 08:13:23 -0800, in misc.transport.road
"Jon Enslin" <jenslin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<1133280803.177639.92430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>Michael G. Koerner wrote:
>> http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/news/2005/sw-us12deisph.htm
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>> Anyone going to this? I can't get off work, otherwise I would.
>
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>I cannot. Here is the Executive Summary of the DEIS.
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>http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/d1/us12fort/docs/deis-execsumm.pdf
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>Basically, the in-city options are not going to alliviate the traffic
>problem nor is Option 3. Options 7 or 7a are the best for traffic
>alliviation but are the most expensive.

My thoughts:

1. No point.
2. (all) agreed, accomplishes nothing in the long run.
3. A permanent detour? Why bother.
3a Will they be widening 39/90 soon?
4. What a good idea -- if they had bothered to do a north/east bypass in
Whitewater.
5. Can this really be cheaper than 7/7a?
6. huh? Does this do anything?
7. Second best.
7a Best, but what's with DOT's obsession with using two miles of current
ROW. If they had planned decently, they could have run in a more or less
straight line from the south end of the 26 bypass to the curve in the
Whitewater bypass. These are almost as bad as the Verona bypass (which
at least has the excuse that it carries traffic bound for Green County.

>One issue that bugs me is the issue regarding WI-89. In my opinion,
>this is easy to deal with in one of two ways. One option in the case
>of options 7s would be to re-route WI-89 along the US-12 bypass, the
>WI-26 bypass and US-12 to County Highway G.
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>The other option is simply to decommision the highway between US-18
>west of Jefferson and the US-12 bypass at Whitewater. You could
>renumber the southern portion WI-189 or send WI-140 east along US-14 to
>WI-89 or something like that.

I guess so.

Did you notice that US-59 has found its way into Wisconsin on the map
(ES-9 and ES-11)?
.

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