Tuesday, October 9, 2012
So-called "delay" is a calculated decision to shorten the time of North Avenue's closing, says Ald. Jeff Roznowski. And, he adds, area will be opened to holiday traffic.
Ald. Jeff Roznowski is dismayed with "delay." The use of the word, that is. Headlines in local media – both in Wauwatosa Patch and WauwatosaNOW – have used "delays" to characterize what Roznowski considers to be a significant improvement in the schedule of the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project – specifically the closing of North Avenue. He'd like to set the record straight. And for the record – he's right. Wea culpa. It hasn't been adequately explained just why the closing of North Avenue was set back by at least two weeks. The main focus has been on when the avenue would reopen, and how that would affect businesses over the holidays. The project timeline of the Meinecke sewer work called for closing North Avenue on Monday, just after …
Sunday, October 7, 2012
If work has progressed far enough on Meinecke Project, contractors will be told to shut down finishing work, fill in and open the avenue to traffic, Kathy Ehley says.
A postponement in the closing of North Avenue for major sewer work will not impede upon critical holiday business for retailers if there's anything the city can do to avoid it, the mayor of Wauwatosa says. Rather than let a detour derail holiday shopping traffic, Mayor Kathy Ehley told Wauwatosa Patch, if necessary, the work will be shut down and the street opened before Thanksgiving. Finishing the Meinecke Avenue sewer work at the intersection of North and 90th Street can be completed later, after the big holiday rush, Ehley said – provided the work is far enough along. "We will do everything we can to make sure North Avenue is open," Ehley said. "Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we will not let those businesses suffer during the …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Work is ahead of schedule on parkway and 90th Street, but North Avenue closing moves more and more toward the holiday season.
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
The good news is, the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project is overall ahead of schedule. The bad news is that some parts of it aren't. Motorists will be pleased to know that, yes, Menomonee River Parkway south of Swan Boulevard will open well before West North Avenue closes at North 90th Street. The parkway is slated to open late Friday or early Saturday, said City Engineer Bill Wehrley. More relieved than pleased, perhaps, will be the residents of 90th Street north of the parkway, who for the most part were unhappy with the whole idea. Wehrley said that repaving 90th, beginning at the parkway and progressing north, will start as soon as the parkway is open. That is well ahead of the project timeline, with all the big pipe – 9- and 10-foot …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
School zone is a traffic disaster area, but McKinley community was prepared when sewer project surrounded it, and dealt with it by becoming foot soldiers.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
When kids, parents and staff returned to McKinley Elementary School this fall, it was to a different landscape. Orange barrels had sprouted throughout the neighborhood like a flush of mushrooms. Signs flourished, too – "Road Closed," "Sidewalk Closed," they said. Many in the McKinley family had to take new ways to get there. Dump trucks and backhoes rumbled and roamed, some of them looking like huge mechanical dinosaurs. And then there was the street itself, on the south side of the school. Meinecke Avenue was gone. Gone along with all the trees that had lined it. But it could have been a lot worse. "I stood in front of McKinley last Tuesday," said Ald. Jeff Roznowski, "looking at our trench all filled with gravel." If it had not been for …
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McKinley Elementary School
2435 N 89th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Dealing with Meinecke Sewer Project
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Traffic will be routed around the business district from 76th to Swan starting in early October and possibly lasting into the beginning of the holiday shopping season.
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
If you think it's been hard to get around Wauwatosa's under-construction streets lately, it's about to get a lot harder. West North Avenue will be shut off at North 90th Street from early October until at least early November, with a possibility that the closure could last well into next month – somewhere from four to six weeks all together, the city's contractors estimate. The best-case scenario is a one-month closing beginning Oct. 8, but avenue business owners are worried that any slowups could lead to the longer closing scenario and reach into the start of holiday shopping around Thanksgiving. Ald. Jeff Roznowski and Mayor Kathy Ehley met Monday morning with a group of business owners with whom they have been communicating information …
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Sendik's Food Market
8616 W North Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
Detour is worth it to say, 'I got it at Sendik's'
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Ray's Liquor
8930 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Planning on mad marketing during street closing
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Netzow's Pianos
8841 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
You'll get there because you can't get it anywhere else
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Trees have come down on blocks south of North Avenue, and neighbors are trying to learn to live with the effects of that – and of what more they know is coming.
Compared to other residents of North 90th Street south of Meinecke Avenue, Susan Barnhart might at first seem to be faring better than most. Actually, she could make a good case for having it worst. True, her property in the long 2000-2100 block is served by an alley, so unlike some neighbors farther north, she'll have driving access to her home throughout construction of the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project. And true, she lives on the east side of a block on which it was the trees on the west side that were choosen to be cut down, leaving her – for now – with the shade of a towering old elm. Trouble is, just before learning about the coming upheaval of the sewer project, Barnhart and her husband decided to sell their home. "We have had no …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Residents may also opt to pay more for a larger tree than the city would normally plant, although it isn't necessarily recommended.
As a gesture of goodwill, it probably won't go far enough with some residents of North 90th Street who remain angry and distraught over the disruption they will suffer during the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project. But those who are losing street trees in the reconstruction project will be given more choice in replacements than many Tosa residents would have. In recent years, the Forestry Division of the Public Works Department has greatly diversified the types of trees it will plant along the city's streets. But it still has a master plan that assigns certain trees to certain city blocks. In most cases, if you were to lose a street tree in front of your property, its replacement would be selected from the master plan, and you would have …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
One side or the other, for the most part, 90th Street residents learn whether their street trees will stay or go.
Anyone who wishes to get a small taste of what the Meinecke Sewer Project will look like during the next year and a half need only pay a visit to the neighborhood of North 90th Street and Menomonee River Parkway. The parkway is closed from Swan Boulevard to Hoyt Park Drive (the short connector between the parkway and Ludington Avenue) and excavation there has begun. Traffic has been detoured onto West North Avenue and Ludington. At 91st Street on the parkway, in a deep hole sheathed in steel retainers, a worker attacks a 1930s-era sewer connection. Lines there will be replaced with new 30-inch PVC plastic pipes, just a small forerunner of what's to come elsewhere. Sections of huge concrete pipe have been delivered and sit waiting their …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
After finding sewer funds were far smaller than thought, city will take nearly $1 million that had been set aside for looming East Town project to pay for Meinecke.
It did seem too good to be true, as one alderman said — and it was. When the Meinecke Avenue Sewer Project bid came in more than $5 million over budget, a plan presented last week to make up the difference appeared to be almost painless. It would have made up the lion's share, some $4.2 million, out of ample surplus capital improvement funds that needed to be spent down anyway. The trouble was, most of those funds did not, in fact, exist. A major miscalculation by the Finance Department of the balances in the storm and sanitary sewer funds made them appear to be nearly three times as large as they really were. As a result, a revised plan was presented and approved Tuesday that will, in part, redirect to the Meinecke Project almost $1 …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Huge project, growing year after year, comes in $5 million over budget – and $2 million over estimate. Aldermen ask department heads to reconcile those several discrepancies.
The Wauwatosa Budget and Finance Committee on Tuesday night unanimously approved spending $5.2 million more than was planned for the Meinecke Avenue sewer Project. But despite the all-are-in-favor vote from the seven-member panel of aldermen, it was not exactly a rubber stamp or a hearty endorsement. Ultimately, the uneasy feeling was that a long-awaited, long-delayed and important project just had to go forward as designed and as bid, with no cutbacks or further holdups. But aldermen wanted to know two things: Fair questions, since $5 million is not chump change to a city the size of Wauwatosa, amounting to about 10 percent of the entire annual budget. The answers to the two questions are arcane and complicated, interrelated and yet …
Betty Rubble
8:27 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Kudos to Ald.Roznowski. He has kept the affected residents up to speed on what is happening with this very disruptive project after the City left us all in the dark. Makes me wonder why we need two alders, when one competent one can do the work of two. more ›