TRANSPORTATION FUND IMPASSE BROKEN, CITY TO GET RAIL
CITY TO GET 60% SHARE OF LONG-DELAYED $91.5 MILLION FEDERAL FUNDS
Milwaukee Transportation Appropriation DocumentWILL GO FOR RAIL PROJECT
Super-Duper Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld
By Michael Horne
And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team
The City of Milwaukee will receive a 60% share of the long-delayed $91.5 million of Federal Transportation funding. The money would fund a streetcar system in the City, a longtime policy issue for the Barrett administration.
Pat Curley. the chief of staff to Mayor Tom Barrett, said the mayor took the matter to congress last year after County Executive Scott Walker turned down the mayor's suggestion to split the funds 50%-50%.
Instead, Walker will get 40 per cent for his buses, and Barrett's 60 per cent will go toward a rail connector system and a brighter future.
Walker's boneheaded stubbornness cost the county $9.1 million this time!
The appropriation reads:
"The FHWA is directed to work with appropriate State and Local parties to expeditiously award funds that still remain available to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for an Interstate substitution project ... and for which a resolution regarding the disposition of these funds has been proposed allotting forty percent of the funds for Milwaukee County to purchase energy efficient buses and sixty percent for the downtown Milwaukee fixed rail circulator."
You will find the language on page 17 of the attached document, drafted in the House of Representatives on February 24th, 2009.
Super-Duper Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld
By Michael Horne
And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team
The City of Milwaukee will receive a 60% share of the long-delayed $91.5 million of Federal Transportation funding. The money would fund a streetcar system in the City, a longtime policy issue for the Barrett administration.
Pat Curley. the chief of staff to Mayor Tom Barrett, said the mayor took the matter to congress last year after County Executive Scott Walker turned down the mayor's suggestion to split the funds 50%-50%.
Instead, Walker will get 40 per cent for his buses, and Barrett's 60 per cent will go toward a rail connector system and a brighter future.
Walker's boneheaded stubbornness cost the county $9.1 million this time!
The appropriation reads:
"The FHWA is directed to work with appropriate State and Local parties to expeditiously award funds that still remain available to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for an Interstate substitution project ... and for which a resolution regarding the disposition of these funds has been proposed allotting forty percent of the funds for Milwaukee County to purchase energy efficient buses and sixty percent for the downtown Milwaukee fixed rail circulator."
You will find the language on page 17 of the attached document, drafted in the House of Representatives on February 24th, 2009.
(C)2009 Michael Horne
posted by Michael Horne @ 9:20 AM
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