Once again, James Rowen at The Political Environment distills brilliantly the obstinacy of Milwaukee County Exec Scott Walker:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Scott Walker returned from a tour of cities with urban rail systems still opposed to a system for Milwaukee because the other cities have traffic congestion that is mitigated by the rail option.
Oh: so we don't have bad traffic congestion? So why was Walker such a big backer of spending $6.5 billion to upgrade and widen the region's freeways, including pushing new lanes through Milwaukee?
Wasn't the expansion to deal with our oh-so-horrendous traffic congestion?
Congratulations as well to the "insightful" letter-writer in last week's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel who noted: "The most successful mass transit systems in the country are all subsidized by taxes. If you think this one won't be, set the pipe down, you've had enough."
This is in contrast to our gold-plated highway system, of course, which is built with funds derived from gold fairy dust we find late at night in the meadow ...
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