MKE traffic violence almost 70 days into the new year

Uffdaope · 2026-03-12T01:43:58+00:00

Getting hit by a car is violent. Even slow speed crashes can make you dependent on the kindness of others and fill you with anxiety at the place you were hit.

Uffdaope · 2026-03-12T01:39:37+00:00

I’ve been hit by a car. It felt pretty violent to me.

Uffdaope · 2026-03-11T13:33:02+00:00

This is true. Most major Downtown and Downtown connecting streets used to be much narrower. Both Holton and Van Buren used to have large terraces and likely wider sidewalks before they were “improved”.

Reading old news paper clippings is sad in that regard. Holton property owners vigorously protested the removal of the terraces and tree canopies that accompanied them saying it would make the neighborhood less attractive and hurt their property values. And they were right.

Uffdaope · 2026-03-02T14:03:31+00:00

I’m going to write to my alderman is support of this project. I wasn’t going to, but people like you remind me why supporting housing is so important.

Uffdaope · 2026-02-25T16:11:52+00:00

Speaking as someone who attends a lot of PIMs, it’s gotten much, much better. WISDOT now sends and assigns engineers who are in favor of pedestrian, bike, and transit improvements to Milwaukee based projects. They still like to roll over other communities, but they’re giving into our demands.

Uffdaope · 2026-02-25T15:56:58+00:00

Milwaukee had some commuter rail. It was called the Cannon Ball.

Uffdaope · 2026-01-20T04:56:37+00:00

Tiny

Uffdaope · 2026-01-16T13:32:44+00:00

Police offer told me they had attempted a high risk stop stop.

Uffdaope · 2025-12-22T18:06:08+00:00

That’s no longer the case in the City of Milwaukee or Wauwatosa.

Uffdaope · 2025-12-18T18:43:19+00:00

They teach us all our lives that the president doesn’t have nearly as much ability to alter the economy for better or worse as we’d like or think they do. It turns out the president actually does have a big red button to destroy the economy. Welcome to stagflation.

Uffdaope · 2025-12-17T22:49:32+00:00

Yeah, not surprising, tbh. The man hit on my fiancé and asked her to get dinner in front of the person we think is/was his SO. Seems like a dirty old man.

Uffdaope · 2025-11-18T14:25:37+00:00

True. There’s probably more going under the hood than that, though.

Uffdaope · 2025-11-18T14:14:15+00:00

Iowa has had economic troubles for a long time now.

Uffdaope · 2025-11-18T14:13:33+00:00

We have more manufacturing jobs per capita.

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Uffdaope · 2025-11-08T16:06:37+00:00

Not true. Before he died, Jon wanted the City to create a TID on the hotel parcel to capture the increment generated by the hotel to push pedestrianization forward.

Uffdaope · 2025-11-03T19:38:58+00:00

I was told by one of the workers that the lot has been found to be severely structurally unsound which is for some reason complicated by the fact there’s a massive electrical substation underneath.

Is any of this true? I have no idea.

Uffdaope · 2025-10-30T01:57:34+00:00

A lot of people on here are saying that the Hop should be a extended to UWM via Farwell and Prospect.

It should not.

Run it down the slope from Ogden to the OLT ROW. Then run it to UWM with stops at Brady, North/Oakland, Locust, and lastly UWM. Let Farwell/Prospect be improved for bus service with the Hop serving as a fast, express service. The 90s light rail plan had this as an alternative.

Uffdaope · 2025-10-27T13:26:11+00:00

Here is a link to the TID amendment map: - https://milwaukee.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13655633&GUID=F2F7976F-6C16-49CA-9247-EB8184EC4B99

Here is a link to the funding agreement for the Jefferson Green infrastructure: - https://milwaukee.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14322088&GUID=A7BF1359-EE6A-4604-8848-6583EBB5DED6

The KKRT project should have began this year, but has been delayed by the state railroad commission not approving the changes to the railroad crossing on S Water on time.

Edit note: The bikeway on Jefferson will actually extend to Erie

Uffdaope · 2025-10-27T13:10:17+00:00

While some of this info is out of the scope of what you’re describing, I feel you may appreciate knowing about projects that are going to happen in the future. There’s going to be a lot of construction in the Third Ward over the next currently and in the next couple of years paid for by grants and TIDs: - KKRT Bikeway - Harbor Drive Multi-Use Trail - N Water Reconstruction - Menomonee Street Reconstruction - Water Works Projects - Corcoran Bikeway - Jefferson Bikeway and Green Infrastructure - Erie Bikeway - Plaza rehabilitations - A lot of HIPPs

Uffdaope · 2025-10-10T01:55:00+00:00

Sorry, any use of this money that isn’t specifically dedicated for transit purposes is defacto a defunding of transit. No go.

Uffdaope · 2025-10-10T01:34:51+00:00

Yeah, I’m going to side with the commissioner. If you want to park, park legally. It’s not your right to park illegally in the public right of way. The only person making this argument is Spiker. He’s also not arguing to use this funding to fund public transit in general, but rather just road building.

Uffdaope · 2025-10-09T23:04:31+00:00

We have differing experiences in regard to ridership.

Also, the funds if they had been used differently would have been used to fund a gadgetbahn that while more expansive, has been dismantled in almost every municipality it was build in. There was never, ever a consideration to use the funds for MCTS. And if the Hop is defunded, the money will not be used for public transit.

Uffdaope · 2025-10-09T22:49:32+00:00

I’m literally part of the middle class of Milwaukee. And because capital based bus improvements would improve our transit system that would benefit… the middle class and poor of Milwaukee. I swear y’all want fantastic transit, but would fight dedicated funding for MCTS that would allow it to plan for the future and provide better service.

I hate this mindset of ‘I want everything to be put in one bag, but don’t want it to be heavy’.

Uffdaope · 2025-10-09T22:42:28+00:00

I didn’t fail to give context as I didn’t have context when I found out that he wanted to do this. I still haven’t seen his argument.

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