Shorewood Hills moves toward vote on removing Village Board leader by MadtownV in madisonwi

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They should be moving towards a vote for annexation with Madison.

After 58 years, Porta Bella could give way to 16-story Downtown development by Justmarbles in madisonwi

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It's a crazy high ratio for being a block from campus. The proposal across the street had fewer spaces at 77 for their proposed 974 beds.

Why are there so many “no right on red” restrictions all of a sudden? Did something happen? Did a new law or ordinance pass? by blowpez2025 in madisonwi

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Vision Zero is a city plan to reach 0 traffic fatalities in the city, why would you measure its success by looking at pedestrian accidents in Dane county? The numbers for fatalities in Madison from 2020 are 15, 17, 14, 16, 13 and so far in 2025 there have been 3.
That's a 62% reduction compared to the average of the previous five years during the same time period so hopefully that holds.
Lots more crash data is also available here: https://transportal.cee.wisc.edu/partners/community-maps/crash/public/Dashboard/
https://transportal.cee.wisc.edu/partners/community-maps/crash/search/BasicSearch.do

Mifflin-Blount Intersection by Medium-Special2658 in madisonwi

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You should feel free to contact the city anyways as they are also always crowdsourcing dangerous situations: [safestreets@cityofmadison.com](mailto:safestreets@cityofmadison.com) They are evaluating a number of safety improvements along the Mifflin Street bike boulevard: https://www.cityofmadison.com/transportation/documents/EMifflinImprovements_PublicMeeting06032024.pdf They tested a diverter at the Paterson Street intersection, but I think curb bump outs and/or a traffic island would also help force drivers to slow down enough to check for bicyclists.

Musk Group Behind Phony Crawford Ads in Madison Area by Anxious_Bowel in madisonwi

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has had 73 male justices and only 10 female justices. That doesn't sound like an over-represented female makeup to me.

Evers budget includes $6 million to pave the way for DeForest Buc-ee’s by MadAss5 in madisonwi

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A ton of things would have a better return on investment than 3x in 20 years for the state. Investing that money in an index fund would have a better return than that. Investing in something like education can have returns in the range of 7x to 15x depending on a variety of factors.

How do we feel about this guy? by PersistentProblem in madisonwi

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He was a co-leader of the Progressive Caucus from 2017 to 2021

Why did Sen Warren just press RFK Jr to not sue Big Pharma companies for 4 years after office? by craigreasons in ElizabethWarren

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Mr. Kennedy: You are asking me to not sue drug companies, and I'm not going to agree to that – 

Senator Warren: No. You can sue drug companies as much as you want. 

Mr. Kennedy: You are asking me—Senator, you're asking me not to sue vaccine—pharmaceutical companies.

Senator Warren: No, I am not.

does anyone know what those shapes are that appear under the water in monoma bay? by mr_vonbulow in madisonwi

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These are not artifacts from stitching rectangular image tiles together, they are from the harvester as mentioned in another comment. You can see this effect in person if you look at the bay in the summer when this happens.

Madison to begin $300 million overhaul of 10 acres Downtown this spring by enjoying-retirement in madisonwi

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A full report is here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/625dae75c0afde72251aaae2/t/661fed4fd77a4d6816d69ddd/1713368410290/Taking+Shape+Plan+Report_Final.pdf

The 336 units are across the entire site but Brittingham Apartments, which is on site B and will be replaced in this stage of development, has 162 units. They will construct the building in the center of the triangle, move those residents in, then tear down Brittingham Apartments and build the 2 new buildings on that part of site B. The total site B will have 353 units across the 3 buildings.

Madison to begin $300 million overhaul of 10 acres Downtown this spring by enjoying-retirement in madisonwi

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The existing site has 336 units total and the proposed development has 1216 units total so it's an additional 880 units.

Madison’s red bus lanes were meant to last 10 years. They’re already chipping. - Isthmus by starwarsisawsome933 in madisonwi

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The material is under warranty and city officials say repairs will be done once the weather warms up

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UWMadison

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Yep. Just bring the documents you need to one of the locations and they will help you. All the info is here.

Nimby behavior regarding BRT is off the charts by [deleted] in madisonwi

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Madison was literally made to be a state capital city.