Pouring interchange asphalt - for a once-every-5-years golf event?

Freeway-building lunacy reaches new heights. Question is: Are they reconsidering now that Tiger Woods is damaged goods?

Road work for golfing events spurs suit - JSOnline.

As long as it pays a fair price, the government can seize your property to build projects such as a new road, school or police station. 

But should that power, known as eminent domain, extend to buying land for a freeway interchange that's used for only one week, every five years or so, to serve traffic going to a major golf tournament?

That question is central to a battle pitting two Sheboygan County families against the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, and Kohler Co., owner of Whistling Straits golf course - which next August hosts the PGA Championship, one of golf's biggest events.

"For whose benefit is this being built?" asks Alan Marcuvitz, a Milwaukee attorney for one of the families suing the department to stop their land from being taken. Marcuvitz says Kohler Co. should negotiate to buy the land for the interchange, instead of having the state use eminent domain to force a sale.

The I-43 interchange, which is getting half of its $1.5 million cost paid by Kohler Co., will benefit the public despite its very limited use, DOT officials say.

"The purpose of the project, from an engineering standpoint, is the safety of I-43," said Mike Berg, the department's northeast Wisconsin regional director. "We have to deal with traffic generated by events at Whistling Straits."

Comments

[Brad S]

Way, way less than once every 5 years. Lucky to have had them this close together.
Good article.

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