Update: The city replied to the comments I left on the map

You have much of the same concerns I do. I left some comments on the linked map (Share Your Feedback button).

The scale looks correct for me. Do you have a custom dark mode extension enabled?

The timeline is unfortunate, but it'll be so good once it finally happens. I swear, you could take the PurpleLine in the middle of the night on a Sunday and the bus will still be packed halfway through the route. It's crazy popular and definitely needs the upgrade.

Given how the Android app became absolute crap in performance, stability, and respect for system-wide accessibility settings after the switch from the native codebase to the React Native codebase, I am not holding my breath when it comes to what will allegedly be rolled out in the near future.

I'm not sure what you mean. Rule 1 states I can only add context or description to the article title, and I used the convention I've seen on other articles posted here of putting the added parts in brackets. If I did not put Wisconsin and Governor in their spots, the title would be missing all context as to what was happening for readers outside of Wisconsin.

Most important part is the one at the bottom of the first page:

Amtrak is accelerating the restoration of fleet in need of repair. Over a dozen Long Distance cars have re-entered service with a total of 63 projected to be restored by the end of 2024.

Hopefully that means one-coach trains won't happen anymore. That was really painful on the Capitol Limited this summer.

This one is right on the Hank Aaron State Trail and has been fenced off for as long as I can remember.

Yes; the stops are Chicago-Glenview-Sturtevant-Airport-Milwaukee-Columbus-Portage-Dells-Tomah-LaCrosse-Winona-RedWing-StPaul

Nice. Even if the current State Legislature has no love for MCTS (remember the assistance cut during COVID to cancel out the federal emergency assistance?), it'll be good to have the lobbying machine ready to go for when the gerrymander is blown up.

I hope so too. I still mentally expect to see construction when around Water and Wells despite how long it has been finished now.

There have been a lot of UW system cuts lately :S I understand part of it is due to market factors, but I hope the part caused by stagnant state funding doesn't cause too much further damage before it can be fixed in a few years after the gerrymander gets blown up

I'm unhappy with any subsidy for this. There was no will to develop the parking lots around Miller Park for 20 years. If they had gotten developed -- or if the massive pile of money the team owner has access to was simply used -- there would be no justification for getting public money involved outside of any infrastructure improvements needed to support said development.

I forget, was this brought up at all during the discussions about Act 12 before it got passed? The prospect of another subsidy really feels like a bait-and-switch inside a law that already had so much poison inside it.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO

I love how much the 3rd St Market Hall has been popping off.

Nearly all of my trips are in urban areas, so I only keep a spare light with me. Flat tires and such mean taking the bus or phoning a friend, then fixing at home.

I think the next thing is to somehow pressure WisDOT into narrowing Capitol Drive before State Trunk Highway 190 is beyond its design lifespan.

Oh cool! I should check that place out sometime!

Things that make you say "Ope"

Nice stuff!

I wish there was more of a focus on zoning changes in the survey. I'll have to look through the available materials and see what the current ideas for that are.

Congrats! Let us know how much faster you become :3

I've never encountered any sort of anti-adblock with Urban Milwaukee, even before I started supporting it with a subscription. What ad blocker are you using?

Looking at CyclOSM, if automobile access is denied here, it would provide a connection between Newberry Boulevard and the LMD-bordering part of the Oak Leaf Trail Lake Line that currently requires a substantial northbound detour, adding just under 1 mi. Removing this detour would provide the eastern half of that neighborhood with a much lower stress route down the East Side into East Town that would otherwise not be taken. (I say 'eastern half' because the western half is closer to the Milwaukee River Line which is already a banger of a bike route.)

Right. Folks like to talk about how nobody allegedly rides it, whereas it actually gets a surprising amount for how limited it currently is. Let's see if any of the planned extensions (Walker's Point, Westown, Bronzeville, East Side) come to fruition. I know we've been denied federal grants several times for constructing them, but I am assuming that is due to us not having finished the starter set for so long and even needing an Act of Congress to extend the grant deadline for the L-Line.

I am a little suspicious of the max effectiveness of the proposed expansions (except the Bronzeville one) due to their seemingly short length, but gosh we need pretty much any size of step at this point for anything transportation-related. One of these days I should see if I can dig up the studies that are available for them and figure out the estimated impact each one will have.

CC'ing /u/banditoitaliano@lemmy.world who first brought it up a few weeks ago ^^

I'm honestly surprised there have been so few new condo developments in Milwaukee since 2008 or so -- especially in downtown, with how much the population there has grown. I'm going through the process of purchasing one right now and one would think that there would be far more of them, or even new developments on the horizon, but no :S

I wonder if part of it is due to lower exposure to the idea. I didn't know the combination of private ownership of living space plus shared ownership of common space was even a thing that people did until some relatives purchased a condo unit a few years back. Since my introduction to the idea back then, though, it really feels like one of the best ways to go.

The most powerful factor in housing prices is the ratio of supply to demand. While the trends of corporate landlords getting larger and diminished proportion of new non-rental housing are concerning, building more housing of any type helps resist across-the-board price increases. Madison over the past few years is unfortunately a great example of what happens to the cost of housing when there isn't enough supply.

And then after being funneled through a single door, having to dodge the luggage carrier that is consistently driving at warp speed down the platform and slaloming around the pillars :S

"The reliability issue with the NPCU’s has also cost us checked baggage on the Hiawatha trains, which affects all potential passengers, cyclists and otherwise," Magliari said.

Fuck :(

I am currently in the process of purchasing a condo unit in the middle of downtown.

My uninformed guess is that the timetable for those train services may be constrained by what the host railroads allow.

cross-posted to: https://pawb.social/post/1657205

Ooo yeah I've been noticing there's a lot of bunching on the BRT x.x so many times when the next two arrivals are 2 mins apart from each other

Oh I'm not the creator! I just happen to post most often there currently ^^

The Route 51 change (Improved frequency of service to 26 min. between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.) will be good for me. About half of my usage of that route is in that time block, and the current frequency during that time is 37-38 minutes x.x

Urban Milwaukee posted a more in-depth article shortly after WISN's: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/07/27/mke-county-county-board-approves-sales-tax/

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My first smartphone ran KitKat. I'm surprised there was still any level of support for KitKat for that long :O