Number
090256
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY, BAUMAN AND KOVAC
Title
Substitute resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s position on the proposed reconstruction of the Zoo Interchange.
Analysis
With this resolution, the City of Milwaukee takes the following position relating to the proposed reconstruction of the Zoo Interchange:
1. The preferred alternative is to rebuild the interchange under the 6-lane Modernization Alternative, which minimizes the total cost of the interchange reconstruction project and the number of property acquisitions in the City of Milwaukee.
2. The preferred alternative for the east leg of the interchanges is the E1 alternative identified in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which utilizes “Texas U-turns” to provided I-94 access to and from 76th Street and 84th Street. The 6-lane E1 alternative eliminates the need for the acquisition of 20 residential properties and one commercial property.
3. The preferred alternative for the north leg of the interchange is the NI alternative identified in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, which utilizes frontage roads to provide freeway access to and from the local street system. The N1 alternative also introduces a new roadway crossing US 45 between Wisconsin Avenue and Watertown Plank Road, thereby creating a more direct link between the Milwaukee County Research Park and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center and providing some traffic relief to the existing street system.
4. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation should provide access to I-94 from Blue Mound Road, as long as further property acquisitions can be avoided (note: the remaining alternatives under consideration for the north leg of the interchange provide for Blue Mound Road access to I-894 and US 45, but not I-94).
5. The money saved by reconstructing the Interchange with 6 lanes, rather than proceeding with the option that expands it to 8 lanes, should be appropriated to...
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