New Report Finds Drivers Pay Less Than Half the Cost of Roads
As state lawmakers prepare to debate Wisconsin’s transportation budget and Congress struggles to renew the federal transportation law, a new report from WISPIRG Foundation and Frontier Group finds that...
View ArticleWho Pays for Roads?
Many Americans believe that drivers pay the full cost of the roads they use through gas taxes and other user fees. That has never been true, and it is less true now than at any other point in modern...
View ArticleAs Budget Committee Prepares to Vote on Transportation, Groups Call for Less...
Wisconsin legislators could save taxpayers half a billion dollars by putting unnecessary highway expansion projects on hold, according to an alternative budget proposal released today by Wisconsin...
View ArticleWisconsin’s Transportation Budget
As statewide transportation trends change and infrastructure throughout Wisconsin crumbles, demands on the state’s transportation budget are growing. The proposed 2015-17 biennial transportation budget...
View ArticleCoalition Urges Budget Committee to Stop I-94 Expansion, Save Taxpayers...
In a letter delivered to the state legislature's budget committee, a coalition of 25 statewide and local organizations is urging the Joint Finance Committee not to give the go-ahead to an $850 million...
View ArticleTransportation Budget Brings Much-Needed Scrutiny to Questionable Highway...
The legislature’s Joint Finance Committee has taken a decisive step towards profoundly reforming Wisconsin’s transportation spending priorities. As part of the JFC’s budget motion approved today,...
View ArticleNo to Expansion of I-94 East-West “A Big Win for Taxpayers”
The transportation budget signed today by Governor Walker does not give the green light to the billion-dollar expansion of I-94 between the Zoo and Marquette Interchanges in Milwaukee, but includes...
View ArticleThe Case Against the I-94 East-West Expansion
The proposed I-94 E-W highway expansion, estimated to cost $1 billion, is an illogical use of taxpayer dollars.
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WISPIRG to Secretary Buttigieg: Expanding I-94 would do more harm than good
Aaron ColonneseCreative AssociateContact person by emailRead more about Aaron ColonneseThursday, April 22, 2021Transportation
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Report reveals safer, healthier alternatives to Wisconsin's highway expansion...
Gina GoldenbergCreative AssociateContact person by emailRead more about Gina GoldenbergFriday, October 1, 2021
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