Wisconsin Budget Still at a Standstill Due to DOT Funding

The Wisconsin Budget can't seem to get passed.  The hiccup seems to be the $1 Billion shortfall in DOT funding.  The DOT needs to fund their projects and the people of Wisconsin are tired of dealing with the bumpy roads and deteriorating bridges.

Lucky for us the MacIver Institute dug into the spending of the DOT and has some eye opening projects that the DOT is funding.  Maybe if we were to stop this ridiculous spending there wouldn't be a shortfall and we could actually address the real problems in the Wisconsin Transportation infrastructure.

The MacIver Institute found a list of projects that have done very little to fix the roads or bridges and help us out.  The following is a list from an article at  MacIver's website (Click Here)

$2 Million spent on Bublr Stations in West Allis?  Seems like a bike project would really benefit us dealing with the horrible roads.  Nice Spend.

$680 Thousand on Bike Racks for Milwaukee.  Nothing like giving the folks in good old Milwaukee some bike racks.

Another $1 Million for the Root River Parkway so Bicyclist could get out of the way of traffic.  Little sarcasm there, not a lot of traffic on Root River Parkway.  But hey Bicyclist must love the DOT.

Guess what?  Another $3 Million for the West Allis Cross-Town Connector.  That's right with Bike Roundabouts, bike bridges and bike paths.  DOT Loving their bikes.

Are the people of Wisconsin really dumb?  The DOT must think so.  They spent $30 Thousand on training videos so that we could learn how to use Roundabouts.  Wonder if we figured it out?

West Allis must love the DOT.  They got another $3.6 million to add a pedestrian bridge even though only a block and half away there already is a one. 

In the did you know category.  The DOT offered the Zoo $8 million because it had to take away 700 parking spaces with the new Zoo Interchange project.  Even though it would only cost $2 million to build a new parking lot, the Zoo sued the DOT and ended up getting $12.7 Million.  But hey, the Zoo got an Otter exhibit out of it.  WTF

I could keep going on and on and on.  Go to the article and just be amazed at how much money the Wisconsin DOT spends on Bike Paths and plain silly spending.  After you read it you may understand why some people are up in arms that the DOT has a shortfall at all.  Some serious overhaul of the leadership there would be in order.  This is what is wrong with Government.  If you ran your life or a business this way you would be bankrupt in no time.  The Government just asks us for higher taxes and fees so they can keep going.  Crazy.