South Milwaukee Mayor Tom Zepecki visited the Caledonia Village Board on Tuesday to make the case for extending the Lake Parkway south — perhaps all the way to northern Illinois.
See the Racine Journal Times story here. From it:
South Milwaukee Mayor Tom Zepecki presented the advantages of continuing 794 from Milwaukee through Caledonia to the Village Board on Tuesday night at the East Side Community Center, 6156 Douglas Ave., saying it will create a hub for future development and bring jobs to surrounding areas.
The Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution in February to have the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission study the feasibility and impact of a potential extension of Lake Parkway from its current southern end point at Edgerton Avenue to Ryan Road (Highway 100) in southern Milwaukee County, according to the commission.
The commission should have preliminary information on potential project costs and traffic impacts by early next year, said commission Executive Director Ken Yunker.
Although the extension proposal is in its early stages, Zepecki spoke in support of building what he called an uninterrupted thoroughfare from downtown Milwaukee to northern Illinois sometime in the future. He gave the board a six-year timeframe for the extension project in Milwaukee.
As I’ve blogged about numerous times, I fully support this project, and I look forward to the day it becomes reality. However, I think six years is very aggressive timeline for this. My guess? You won’t see an extension until 2020 at the earliest, especially given other road projects on the state’s radar screen in coming years.
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