Milwaukee
Freeway Fight: Scott Walker Wants to Drag Milwaukee Back to 1956
The mayor and residents of Milwaukee are fighting a massive urban highway project backed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
June 20, 2014
Milwaukee Protesters Try to Halt Double-Decker Freeway
Monday night, as the Wisconsin DOT went through the motions of a Power Point presentation about the latest highway expansion it wants to gouge through Milwaukee, a groups of protesters outside the meeting shouted their frustration with an agency that has spent lavishly on roads to the exclusion of all other modes.
June 18, 2014
Milwaukee Transit Advocates Win $13.5 Million Settlement From State DOT
In a Wisconsin lawsuit that's been closely watched by transportation reformers around the country, local advocates have extracted some resources for transit from a notoriously highway-obsessed state DOT.
May 22, 2014
Earth Day Resolution: Stop Building Projects Like the Zoo Interchange
Leading up to Earth Day, the New York Times ran an editorial, "Time Is Running Out," lamenting the lack of urgency in the United States to prevent a very urgent problem: catastrophic climate change. Today, Brad Plumer at Vox explained why it may be too late to keep average temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels -- the threshold that climate scientists have been warning about.
April 22, 2014
Train Maker Sues Wisconsin for $66 Million for Canceling Rail Project
Train maker Talgo is suing the state of Wisconsin for $65.9 million as a result of Governor Scott Walker's decision to cancel passenger rail plans connecting Madison to Milwaukee.
November 8, 2013
Poor Transit Access and Wisconsin’s Staggering Black Incarceration Rate
The state of Wisconsin imprisons a higher proportion of black men than any other state. Almost 13 percent of the state's African American men are behind bars -- nearly twice the national average. In Milwaukee County, according to a recent report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison [PDF], more than half of black men in their thirties have served time in state prison.
September 18, 2013
It’s Tulsa vs. Milwaukee in the Parking Madness Championship!
This is it -- the final, epic showdown of Parking Madness. We started with 16 reader-submitted contenders for the title of America's Worst Parking Crater, and Milwaukee and Tulsa have emerged from three rounds of voting to face off in the championship.
April 9, 2013
Final Four Parking Madness Matchup: Milwaukee vs. Dallas
We're down to just four cities: Milwaukee, Dallas, Houston, and Tulsa. But only one can be the champion of Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in an American downtown.
April 5, 2013
The “Elite Eight” of Parking Madness: Milwaukee vs. Columbia
So far, Texas is really dominating our Parking Madness tournament. The two Final Four spots awarded so far have gone to Lone Star heavyweights Dallas and Houston. We might have an all-Texas final.
April 3, 2013
Parking Madness Kicks Off With Milwaukee vs. Jersey City – Cast Your Vote!
Earlier this month we asked you: What is the worst parking crater in America? What is the ugliest parking scar draining the life from a downtown?
March 21, 2013