Tosa to Walker: No Delays on Zoo Interchange, Please
Huge reconstruction project was expected to take at least six years by design, and now Wauwatosa looks at the prospect of additional years because of budget shortfalls.
In the best of all possible scenarios, Wauwatosa is looking toward six years of road construction that will make this year's widespread street, sewer and utility work look like a picnic. Detours and delays involved in the Mayfair Road reconstruction, the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project and other public works will pale in comparison to the impact of the upcoming Zoo Interchange Project, once it begins in earnest in 2013. But that massive project is something the city and its business community have actually sought for many years — modernization of the busiest freeway interchange in the state. Now, though, after years of planning and a completed design, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Gov. Scott Walker say there simply isn't …
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pupdog1
11:28 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
I have never seen a more poorly executed roadway construction project than this past year's disaster along Highway 100 from Bluemound to Capitol. That was a state job. On countless occasions, I would drive along miles of that road in the middle of the work day past a million orange barrels, and not see one single worker along the route, or at the destroyed intersections. In fact, it was rare that… more ›