Shortsighted reader plays SimCity with Milwaukee freeways: "Build, build, build."

From the website of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Public Works Association; identified only as "freeway construction."

The sentiments expressed in the letter below are apparently what emerge when you  let yourself become oblivious to everything (gas prices, deadly foreign policy disasters based on oil dependence, lack of unlimited highway funds, etc.) except for yourself and your personal commute.

I especially like his flat-Earth assertion that freely moving traffic "causes much less pollution and saves everyone money on gas and insurance." Well, in THAT case ..

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's letter section:

Improvement needed throughout system

Metro Milwaukee and the Department of Transportation have always been slow to react with road reconstruction. We have an outdated freeway system in metro Milwaukee. Making I-94 eight lanes is a no-
brainer ("Next road work tab $1.9 billion," Nov. 16).

The next major project after the Zoo Interchange should be I-43 north of downtown. It should be six lanes from Highway C in Ozaukee County south to Silver Spring Drive and then eight lanes south to downtown. That would be moving in the right direction and thinking about the future. Traffic that is moving freely causes much less pollution and saves everyone money on gas and insurance.

We need to move forward, not just fix what we have.

John Feltman
Menomonee Falls

A regular Robert Moses. Or someone who really loves his car(s) and includes OPEC on his Christmas gift list.

Comments

[Brendan]

"...when you let yourself become oblivious to everything..."

Sounds about par for the course for Menomonee Falls.

[John Michlig]

Yeah - he probably shouldn't have listed his address. Definitely reinforces the stereotype.

[daver]

Have we not learned anything from the days of Robert Moses at all? What people don't seem to understand is that by building more/wider freeways you will in fact create longer and longer commute times. Not shorter.