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See Design Concepts for 30th Street Corridor Trail
New trail could connect north side neighborhoods to larger network of trails in Milwaukee County.
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Why can’t we use eminent domain to take the land?
There’s a lot of this plan that’s viable, but the viaduct over the yards isn’t. It doesn’t even look all that pleasant as it’s too narrow. It would also be incredibly expensive.
@PantherU in Wisconsin you can’t use eminent domain to build trails: https://wisconsinbikefed.org/what-we-do/advocacy/legislative-agenda/eminent-domain/
@puegeot thank you for the answer!
Heat is going to drive agricultural, manufacturing and service businesses northward, along with their workers and customers and equipment. The cities having the best and most flexible. freight and rapid transit rail capacities will grow and thrive, and more dramatically than those that don’t. We need to export and diversify our economy to bring in outside money,
Notes on the modern economy are best written in pencil.
This corridor can connect and generate both freight and passenger traffic, especially if the passenger traffic is elevated and features transfer engagement with bus lines.
As much as I like trails, they could diminish the capabilities of one or both of these vital rail services In short, rail use, both passenger transit & freight, provides the most valuable overall benefits to Milwaukee.
Current owners’ reluctance to sell is understandable.
They don’t want to be excluded or unreasonably impeded
by a government throwing its weight around.
Milwaukee County is a more viable partner than the City, since it has staff and facilities for, and experience in running the bus transit system that rail transit would interface with.
Expect to hire some out-of-town expertise.
The city of Milwaukee is unlikely to have even vestiges of knowledge and experience to run it, except for possible archived evaluations.
The Hop is not relevant – being stuck in pavement, it is vulnerable to all the conditions and events that slow or stop traffic on pavement. It can provide additional, larger-sized adventures
if mechanical or electrical failure occurs.
Let’s not expand our “portfolio” of squandered rapid transit rail rights-of-way, begun in 1962
It would be great to have Milwaukee County talking to trail users about their experiences in addition to trail expansion. There are some very dangerous crossings where a flashing yellow light is needed to help improve rider safety. How about starting to talk about there e-bikes that are like mini motorcycles and are operated by some who carry little about the safety other rides. Are there sections of trail that are used heavily by bikers and walkers that could be widened? Should there be some speed restrictions for the 25 mph road bikers who sometimes are slaloming through walkers and slower bikers on weekends when the trails are heavily used? Milwaukee County should send up some staff to talk to trail users about their concerns.