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2014 Bypass Take Action Message
| Posted on June 11, 2014 at 7:25 AM |
Dear West
Waukesha Bypass Opponent,
We need your letter! It's so important! And, please pass this e-mail on to others!
We have heard from a reliable source in the Wisconsin DOT that they
aren't 100% supportive of the West Waukesha Bypass, that they are doing
it because Waukesha County wants it! So we need to let Waukesha County
know that we, the residents of Waukesha County, don't want the Bypass. So, this letter is going to County Executive Dan Vrakas.
Our Action Message is to ask County Executive Vrakas to stop the Bypass!
E-Mail County Executive Dan Vrakas. Please take this action by June 20,
2014.
E-mail to; [email protected]
Write your own letter or use the sample letter below. Copy and paste
this entire letter into your e-mail. Make sure to sign it with your
full name and address. Put it
in your own words and add any key points you might like to make. Be sure to add your name and address.
Use any Subject you like or use:
Please Stop Planning The West Waukesha Bypass and Just Fix It!
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Dear County Executive Vrakas,
I'm
writing you today to ask that you do what you can to cancel the planned West Waukesha
Bypass expansion project and instead improve the route at a savings of
many millions of taxpayers dollars!
Why
am I against the West Waukesha Bypass? There are many reasons;
environmental, health, social, safety, and financial. As someone who
values Waukesha County's natural environment I'm sure you can understand why I
feel that the destruction of the Pebble Creek Environmental corridor is
just unacceptable!
The cost of this project is another big reason.
The DOT will soon be asking for tax increases to pay for Wisconsin's
deteriorating roads. We should be repairing and not expanding our roads
at a time like this! The coalition Opposed to the West Waukesha
Bypass has proposed a "No Build, Improve" alternative. I ask that you consider this alternative.
Our transportation system has reached a tipping point. A new report
analyzes the costs of building new roads at the expense of maintaining
existing ones. The report by Smart Growth America and Taxpayers for
Common Sense supports the Coalition Opposed to the West Waukesha
Bypass' "No Build, Improve Alternative" to building the bypass. The
Wisconsin DOT and Waukesha County should heed the message in this
report! Here are some of the report's highlights.
Departments of transportation (DOTs) across the country are spending more money building
new roads than maintaining the ones they have despite the fact that
roads are crumbling, financial liabilities are mounting and conditions
are not improving for America’s drivers. Between 2009 and 2011, the latest year with available data, states collectively
spent $20.4 billion annually to build new roadways. During that same
time, states spent just $16.5 billion annually repairing and preserving
roads while roads across the country were deteriorating. These spending
decisions come with serious implications for DOT finances and taxpayers.
If states spent the $20.4 billion annually on repair rather than
expansion (in the past), they could have cut the number of roads in poor condition in
half by 2011 and would have been on target to eliminate the backlog of
roads in poor condition by 2014. (but road building continued)
State leaders including governors, legislators and DOT officials, have the ability to change these priorities for the better.
Wisconsin statistics are similar to the national average. Much more
money is spent on new roads vs repairing and maintaining existing roads.
The average annual Wisconsin expenditures on road expansion versus
repair for 2009 – 2011 are:
$195,000,000 more is spent on road expansion than road repair in Wisconsin. This
trend must be reversed or Wisconsin and Waukesha roads will continue to
deteriorate.
The West Waukesha Bypass will cost over $65 million taxpayer
dollars. The DOT is now planning an I43 expansion that will cost $450
million. The Zoo Interchange will cost many millions more than that!
And, all the while our existing roads continue to deteriorate. It's
time for Waukesha County to re-examine its own role in transportation
spending. There is no appetite for new taxes for new roads in
Wisconsin.
The time has come to place a moratorium on building new roads in
Waukesha, including adding new lanes. It's time to put all our
resources toward repairing our existing infrastructure
and make reasonable safety improvements! We can no longer afford the
huge financial, social, safety, and environmental toll that Wisconsin's
road building binge is causing.
Source: Repair Priorities 2014: Transportation spending strategies to save taxpayer dollars and improve roads
is the latest report by Smart Growth America and Taxpayers for Common
Sense analyzing road conditions and spending priorities in all 50 states
as well as the District of Columbia. The update also assesses how these
priorities have changed since the release of the first edition in 2011.
Sincerely
(Your Full Name)
(Your Address)
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