New Report Finds Expensive Highway Projects Might Be Unnecessary
A new report from the WISPIRG Foundation finds that usage of seven recently completed highways has not developed as projected, and questions whether building massive and costly new highways is the best...
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Bruce SpeightDirector(608) 268-0510Contact person by emailSince 2008, Bruce has been the Director of WISPIRG. He has focused on developing WISPIRG’s toxics, consumer, tax and budget, and transportation...
View ArticleA New Course
Across America, colleges and universities are showing that efforts aimed at reducing driving deliver powerful benefits for students, staff and surrounding communities. Policymakers at all levels of...
View ArticleU.S. DOT Report on Infrastructure Needs Overstates Future Increases in Driving
The US DOT seems to be stuck in a bizarre time warp. For nine years in a row Americans have decreased their average driving miles. We haven’t seen an annual increase of even one percent in total...
View ArticleDriving Wisconsin's "Brain Drain"
To better understand how the availability of non-driving modes of transportation can retain and recruit young talent for Wisconsin, the WISPIRG Foundation surveyed 530 college students across...
View ArticleNew Survey: Wisconsin Brain Drain Partly Because Youth Seek Alternatives to...
For the last decade, Wisconsin has been experiencing a “brain drain,” with more college graduates leaving the state than staying. One factor could be our crumbling transit infrastructure and lack of...
View ArticleFork in the Road
A new WISPIRG Foundation report offers a simple, common-sense way to reform transportation spending in Wisconsin. The state is currently slated to spend nearly $3 billion on four unneeded highway...
View ArticleNew Report: Unneeded Wisconsin Highway Expansions Will Waste Billions That...
A new WISPIRG Foundation report offers a simple, common-sense way to reform transportation spending in Wisconsin. The state is currently slated to spend nearly $3 billion on four unneeded highway...
View ArticleNew Study: Traffic Data Does Not Support Spending on I-94 Expansion
A new report by WISPIRG Foundation calls the I-94 double decker expansion one of 11 examples of wasteful highway spending based on its outdated assumptions of ever-increasing driving. The study, which...
View ArticleHighway Boondoggles
Even though the Driving Boom is now over, state and federal governments continue to pour vast sums of money into the construction of new highways and expansion of old ones – at the expense of urgent...
View ArticleI-94 Corridor Draft EIS Options Disregard Data, Community and Taxpayer Concerns
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WISDOT) issued a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that proposes two costly options for expanding I-94 in Milwaukee. The study ignores community...
View ArticleWISDOT Budget Request: Higher Taxes, More Wasteful Spending and Misplaced...
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s (WISDOT) biennial budget request, released on Friday, proposes to slam Wisconsin taxpayers with a $751 million increase in taxes and fees. At the same...
View ArticleCoalition Unveils Better Solution for I-94 East-West Corridor
Two weeks after WISDOT issued a draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) that proposes two costly and wasteful highway expansion options for the I-94 East-West corridor – a coalition is offering a...
View ArticleThe Rehab-Transit Option:
With the publication of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has taken another big step forward in its drive to widen I-94 in Milwaukee’s East-West...
View ArticleA Better Solution for the I-94 East-West Corridor
Check out the map for our proposed Better Solution for the I-94 East-West Corridor: "Rehab/Transit" Alternative
View ArticleAs Federal Highway Administration Acknowledges the Driving Boom is Over, Will...
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has quietly acknowledged that the Driving Boom is over, cutting its forecasted driving estimates by between 24 percent and 44 percent. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleWISDOT Disregards Community Opposition, Declining Driving, Proposes to Waste...
Today, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced that its preferred alternative for the I-94 East-West Corridor is an “at-grade” expansion. With traffic counts declining in the corridor, any...
View ArticleNew Report Finds Drivers Pay Less Than Half the Cost of Roads
As state lawmakers prepare to debate Wisconsin’s transportation budget and Congress struggles to renew the federal transportation law, a new report from WISPIRG Foundation and Frontier Group finds that...
View ArticleWho Pays for Roads?
Many Americans believe that drivers pay the full cost of the roads they use through gas taxes and other user fees. That has never been true, and it is less true now than at any other point in modern...
View ArticleAs Budget Committee Prepares to Vote on Transportation, Groups Call for Less...
Wisconsin legislators could save taxpayers half a billion dollars by putting unnecessary highway expansion projects on hold, according to an alternative budget proposal released today by Wisconsin...
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