LRB-0610/1
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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Byrnes, BB0255 - Repeal prohibitions on adding lanes to I 94
For 2013-2015 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
transportation
Highways
Under current law, southeast Wisconsin freeway rehabilitation projects include the reconditioning, reconstruction, or resurfacing of, or adding one or more lanes to, a state trunk highway, located in Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, or Waukesha county, that has four or more lanes of traffic physically separated by a median or barrier and that gives preference to through traffic by limiting access to interchanges only. Southeast Wisconsin freeway rehabilitation projects include the Marquette interchange reconstruction project, the I 94 north-south corridor project, and the Zoo interchange project in Milwaukee County. Funding for southeast Wisconsin freeway rehabilitation projects using dedicated state, federal, and local appropriations terminated on June 30, 2011, but bond proceeds may still be used to fund these projects. In addition, a southeast Wisconsin freeway rehabilitation project may be eligible for funding under DOT's major highway projects program or state highway rehabilitation program.
Current law requires DOT to design the reconstruction of I 94 in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties to allow for expansion of capacity for vehicular traffic on I 94 in these counties to meet the projected vehicular traffic capacity needs for 25 years following the reconstruction. Current law also prohibits a southeast Wisconsin freeway rehabilitation project from including the addition of any lane for vehicular traffic on I 94 adjacent to Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee County.
This bill repeals the prohibition on a southeast Wisconsin freeway rehabilitation project including the addition of any lane for vehicular traffic on I 94 adjacent to Wood National Cemetery.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 84.014 (5r) of the statutes is repealed.
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