Thursday, November 13, 2008

Waukesha County Disses Bus Riders

Waukesha County's 2009 budget slams bus riders, proving again that west of 124th St., "regional cooperation" is confined to the dictionary.

When it comes to transportation policy, Waukesha County prefers to serve the single-passenger, highway-bound Sprawl and Crawl constituent.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that is what the voters who put in Dan Vrakas and the County Board want? Maybe they like sprawl and crawl.

James Rowen said...

If Waukesha were an island, that would be OK.

Anonymous said...

Well, when people in Milwaukee are given the franchise in Waukesha County, then maybe the issue can be revisited.

You're not suggesting the will of the voters be ignored are you?

James Rowen said...

What happens in Waukesha does impact Milwaukee. Without the bus line, students will need cars to get to campus. That's a cost to them - - and to the Milwaukee neighborhoods which cannot take anymore cars near UWM.

Also: Waukesha did reject Milwaukee light rail a few years ago - - so Waukesha did 'vote' on Milwaukee transit.

It's all connected.

Anonymous said...

Milwaukee County is trying to subsidize it's tax burden with money from the tax payers who fled that city to live in the suburbs.

Anonymous said...

I ask again:

You're not suggesting the will of the voters be ignored are you?