Not everyone pleased with DOT road-building plans

Final two meetings on
transportation improvements

The DOT will unveil strategies for road and other transportation improvements in and around La Crosse at a public information meeting tonight. 

No matter what the agency settles on for road building, some groups won’t be pleased, like Livable Neighborhoods.

“We supported taking our federal highway money and our state highway money and our federal DOT money and our state DOT money and using it here for the solutions that we paid for,” Livable Neighborhoods president Charley Weeth said.

The DOT Coulee Region Transportation Study meetings begin at 5 p.m. tonight at La Crosse Central High and at 5 p.m. Thursday at Onalaska city hall.

Some don’t see a plan to fix traffic congestion as even necessary. Many just don’t like that there’s road building in all of the plans. Things that just don’t seem necessary Weeth thinks.

“We believe those solutions to manage these problems are better spent on fixing what we’ve got first and then working on these alternatives,” Weeth said.

Final public information meetings on the DOT Coulee Region Transportation Study.  This evening at La Crosse Central High at 5 is the first.  Tomorrow’s meeting in Onalaska city hall also starts at 5.