The Coalition for More Responsible Transportation (CMRT) was formed to challenge the overbuilding of highways while our local roads and transit systems suffer.
Members of our coalition filed comments on the I94 East-West project this week. Big takeaway: @WisconsinDOT is not complying with Title IV and is moving ahead with an alternative with the knowledge that it will have a discriminatory effect.
https://t.co/1Bm6kG1CtS
MILWAUKEE: The proposed I-94 expansion is wrong for our city.
We have until Jan. 31 to submit written comments to WisDOT supporting the #FixAtSix alternative: https://t.co/RksN85K3xM.
@WisconsinDOT has failed to recognize where the city wants to be and what gives more economic development. We need to 🛑thinking about ideas of the past. We have to think bigger. We need to invest in communities. "Look back at #fixatsix seriously and go back to the drawing board.
Ted with @cityofmilwaukee Taskforce on Climate Change and Economic Equity- "this is the opposite what our taskforce and the County has committed to do. Expansion undermines plans to invest in vibrant, dense, transit-oriented neighborhoods" #fixatsix
TODAY: Public hearing on proposed I94 expansion project. Another opportunity to call for #FixAtSix
3 pm - 7 pm
Tommy Thompson Youth Center
State Fair Park, Gate 5
640 S. 84th Street, Milwaukee
MCTS Route: 33
BREAKING NEWS: @WisconsinDOT has ignored calls for a #fixatsix solution and will move forward with an 8-lane expansion. Read our press release here: https://t.co/oWRC5PtOfb
BREAKING NEWS: @WisconsinDOT has ignored @wiCMRT & the thousands of comments calling for #fixatsix and is moving forward with a giant 8-lane expansion of I94, despite the #climatechange, #waterpollution, and racism impacts. Public hearings are scheduled for Dec 12, 14. Stay tuned
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#FixatSix! Add transit and better bike ped connections. And let's convert 175 to a more community and environmentally friendly boulevard that doesn't further divide the community. @mkeriverkeeper@wiCMRT
https://t.co/kvtweEpn4u
The #fixatsix alternative ould fix the safety and operational concerns of the corridor but, rather than expanding it, instead invest in more pressing transpo needs such as road repair and transit expansion. This is what #Milwaukee needs. Learn more at https://t.co/ci8Gt7UPAS