Fiscal Note
The City's cost-share of new cross-Interstate/USH 151 pedestrian/bicycle connections would be subject to WisDOT’s cost share policy and would involve future capital budgets.
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Responding to WisDOT’s I-39/90/94 Project Concurrence Point 2
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WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is undertaking a study of Interstate 39/90/94 from the Beltline to US Highway 12/Wisconsin Highway 16 in Wisconsin Dells; and
WHEREAS, the study corridor includes a nearly 10 mile stretch of Interstate running through the City of Madison; and
WHEREAS, the City of Madison is the largest municipality within the fastest growing region in the State, with the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan projecting that the city will add 115,000 new residents between 2020 and 2050; and
WHEREAS, the Interstate corridor running through the City of Madison has either already urbanized or is expected to urbanize in the coming decades as the city continues to grow; and
WHEREAS, the City’s Comprehensive Plan, updated in December 2023, has goals, strategies, and actions that call for compact, interconnected growth, accompanied by an expansion and improvement of the city’s pedestrian and bicycle networks; and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan, Madison in Motion Transportation Plan, and more detailed area and neighborhood development plans along the Interstate and US Highway 151 corridor call for a series of crossings to reduce the substantial impediment to active transportation presented by the highways; and
WHEREAS, WisDOT has asked for Concurrence from Participating Agencies on Concurrence Point 2, Identification of the Recommended Preferred Alternative
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Madison:
1. Concurs with the recommendation at the I-94/WIS 30 interchange of the Full Modernization Alternative 2, with an emphasis on the importance of provide full pedestrian and bicycle accommodations with the reconstruction of the Milwaukee Street bridge o...
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