Good news for South Milwaukee from the Milwaukee County Board today, as supervisors overwhelmingly passed a measure to spend $200,000 in emergency funding for reconstruction of the Beech Street foot bridge over Oak Creek.
Here is the press release from County Supervisor Patricia Jursik, who drove this effort.
I thank Pat for her hard work on this, and for all who voted for this important piece of legislation for South Milwaukee. This foot bridge is a vital connection between our middle and high schools and the northwest side of town.
From all the upgrades under way at Grant Park to investments in Grobschmidt Pool to the continued partnership around an Oak Creek watershed restoration study, the county continues to make an investment in South Milwaukee.
I am very appreciative to see this project added to the list, and was happy to get behind this effort.
I will keep you posted on timelines for replacement. The hope: We have a new bridge in place in time for the start of the new school year.
South Milwaukee Blog 
Way to go Pat and Erik and anyone else involved in finally getting some funding for replacing the bridge. Now let’s just hope it comes to reality and is able to be built permanently with the money the allotted for it and in a timely manner. A job well done so far!