Remember when Wisconsin was set to be run like a business because that's how Scott Walker and Republicans roll?
Well, here we are in year seven of their one-party rule, and their own 'managers' at the Department of Transportation, along with non-partisan analysts, have prepared a memo which confirms what every motorist in our orange-barrel-and-pothole hell statewide already knows:
The roads are a mess, there's not enough money to repair and improve them, the budgets ae awash in red ink and taxpayers face mounting congestion and billions in unfunded obligations:
Well, here we are in year seven of their one-party rule, and their own 'managers' at the Department of Transportation, along with non-partisan analysts, have prepared a memo which confirms what every motorist in our orange-barrel-and-pothole hell statewide already knows:
The roads are a mess, there's not enough money to repair and improve them, the budgets ae awash in red ink and taxpayers face mounting congestion and billions in unfunded obligations:
Based on earlier budget projections, the memo determined taxpayers would spend $200 million over the next 10 years on temporary repairs because the state is putting off rebuilding highways in southeastern Wisconsin.
After that, taxpayers would have to spend $125 million each year to maintain deteriorating roadways in southeastern Wisconsin — for the next 30 years, according to the memo.- - while Walker galavants around the country as head of the Republican Governors Association dining with Donald Trump, goofing off along the sidelines at the National Football Conference championship game and otherwise plotting his next national move wo he leave behind the wreckage of the transportation bomb he dropped on the state - - and which he set in motion years ago as Milwaukee County Executive by promoting the Southeastern Wisconsin Freeway expansion and reconstruction plan that endorsed spending $6.4 billion in 2003 dollars without including a financing plan.