More Lanes in Milwaukee, Hope for Bikes in Suburban Kansas

More lanes not needed in Milwaukee. Photo by compujeramey via Flickr.

On the Streetsblog Network today: James Rowen, over at The Political Environment, writes about the Wisconsin DOT’s plans to add more highway lanes in counties that violate federal air pollution standards. He is not happy:

Why should WisDOT be expanding the highways in known air quality
non-attainment counties, and accelerating its plans after the
Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming set out a remedial agenda for
the state to implement?

Implement. Not undermine.

So
the feds are telling the state that Milwaukee, Racine and Waukesha
Counties are in violation of air quality standards, but the state
continues to spend billions in federal highway funds to widen the roads
there.

On a recommendation by SEWRPC, which receives 100% of its funding from taxpayers.

That’s not government of, by and for the people. It’s government against the people.

Elsewhere on the network, KCBike.Info is drumming up support for a bicycle infrastructure plan in Olathe, KS, where the city council is considering “a combination of on-street bike routes and off-street trails. It is a
very progressive plan for providing transportation options in a
suburban community.” And Santa Rosa CityBus is looking back at improvements made to that city’s bus system in its 50th anniversary year.