Submit a public comment to the Joint Finance Committee for better transportation in Wisconsin

We strongly urge you not to allocate any taxpayer dollars to new highway expansions in the biennial budget. Instead, please direct funds to where they are truly needed: improving Wisconsin's public transportation systems and maintaining existing local roads.

We encourage you to complement support for local road and bridge repair by increasing investment in the state's public transit systems by $50 million per year and by reinstating Transportation Alternatives (TA) funding for walking and biking infrastructure at a rate of $10m per year.

We believe decision makers should develop a plan to meet Wisconsinites' transportation needs statewide -- especially by providing effective, clean and affordable mobility in rural, suburban and urban districts, and repairing existing roads and bridges -- rather than green-lighting costly and harmful new highway projects.