I-94 East to Milwaukee

An eastward route to the city down I-94

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[danie123182]

I always wondered where all the money went in Minnesota. Taxes are insane in that state yet there is never enough money to get anything done. Where does the money go? Minneapolis has the worst roads in the nation for a city its size I can say that easily there is no doubt in my mind. Yet the property taxes sky high in that city. I hear they are doing a 20 million dollar rebuild of a park. This while the entire city's road budget is only 18 million.

[eluko79]

@danie123182 I hear ya. Ive damaged my car trying to drive on Lyndale near the farmers market. I hear the industrial areas in Northeast are even worse.

[roadguy88]

No sure if you heard, but Wisconsin has begun the process through their "majors" highway program to reconstruct 94 from the Zoo to the Marquette interchange. It is recommended the corridor be reconstructed from 3 to 5 lanes in each direction with a cost estimated to be in the billions. It will probably be Wisconsin's most expensive highway project ever.

[eluko79]

@roadguy88 Sounds impressive. That's like the fourth billion dollar project in a decade. I have to wonder though where the state is getting all this money for these Texas sized projects.

[roadguy88]

If you think the Marquette interchange ($810 million) is impressive, the next major project after WisDOT completes the 94 North-South project ($1 billion) between Milwaukee and the Illinois state line, is the zoo interchange where 94 intersects 45 & 894 ($2.3 billion). If you look up the plans on WisDOTs website they are even more impressive. It's too bad we will never see projects like this in Minnesota ever again. Crosstown is the last real "major" project MnDOT will ever have.

[eluko79]

@roadguy88 I get very irritated by Minnesota politicians who never seem to understand how far back we really are when it comes to our infrastructure. For a 288 million dollar project to be our most expensive is a little embarrassing. Hopefully the 494/35W & the Stillwater bridge projects will get rolling before 2020. We only put 6% of the state budget into mndot. Hopefully someday that will change.

[danie123182]

@eluko79 I think anyone that drives in Minneapolis should expect their car to get damaged. I hit a pothole so hard one once knocked my tire off the rim and knocked my battery out of place which broke the hose going to the windshield sprayers and rubbed against the serpentine belt until snapped. I love the state but they have to understand that 1 dollars worth of neglected maintenance becomes 15 dollars worth of repairs/rebuilds 5 years from now.

[roadguy88]

@eluko79

Current & future (past 2020) major projects above the $500 million mark include:

94 between 894 & IL state line

Zoo Interchange

41 in Green Bay & Oshkosh

94 between the Zoo & Marquette

US 12 in Madison (The Madison Beltline)

90/39 from Madison to IL

43 from Milwaukee to Grafton

[roadguy88]

@eluko79 The state is currently using general fund bonds, transportation fund revenues, and is looking at dedicating the motor vehicle sales tax to pay for major projects.

The state is focused on highway reconstruction compared to Minnesota which seems to be focused on abandoning highway expansion and looking only at rail expansion. It's amazing how state policies differ.

[xXMiamiRedXx]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhh its ok

[TheEfren1996]

I live here in tge south side and that "beast" has killed over 50 people in tge first 3 months in that curve