Attention, all citizens who took the time to give your input on the Final Environmental Impact statement for the North-South I-94 expansion project: the Wisconsin Department of Transportation played you for saps.
Yup, even before the public comment period began, highway officials were drafting a document giving the go-ahead to the project. (What’s not clear, though, is exactly who was doing the drafting. Was it the Federal Highway Administration, the agency that eventually issues the document, called a Record of Decision? Or was it CH2M Hill, a WisDOT consultant on the $1.9 billion, unfunded expansion project?)
Anyway, it certainly looks like those folks who thought the public input process was a sham were right. The decision, indeed, already had been made, according to WisDOT’s own records. More on this topic, including a link to the draft document, here.
Bad acts by WisDOT
Attention, all citizens who took the time to give your input on the Final Environmental Impact statement for the North-South I-94 expansion project: the Wisconsin Department of Transportation played you for saps.
Yup, even before the public comment period began, highway officials were drafting a document giving the go-ahead to the project. (What’s not clear, though, is exactly who was doing the drafting. Was it the Federal Highway Administration, the agency that eventually issues the document, called a Record of Decision? Or was it CH2M Hill, a WisDOT consultant on the $1.9 billion, unfunded expansion project?)
Anyway, it certainly looks like those folks who thought the public input process was a sham were right. The decision, indeed, already had been made, according to WisDOT’s own records. More on this topic, including a link to the draft document, here.
Tags: North-South I-94
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