Transportation & Logistics
An ode to the orange barrels
My wife Michelle and I built our house about 12 years ago now. One of the things that appealed to me at the time about building new was not having the unexpected cost of home repairs that older houses can stick you with. (The other thing that appealed to me was that Michelle told me, “We are building new.”)
Airborne
Marmy Clason's thrill of aviation is one fueled largely by her sense of accomplishment in having built her own aircraft.
Heavy lifting in Wisconsin
Those sounds you may hear are the moans and groans of people engaged in various acts of heavy lifting. And I’m not talking about snow.
State plans to start reconstruction of South 27th Street
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is hoping that reconstruction of the South 27th Street corridor between Drexel and College avenues can begin in two years.
Lakefront Gateway will change Milwaukee
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele today announced that state and local officials have struck a deal on a $34 million plan to redesign the Lake Interchange area, which will open up a 3-acre potential development site near the lakefront in downtown Milwaukee.
Milwaukee needs to save its Bucks and its buses
A recent BizTimes.com poll asked if a regional sales tax should be used to help finance a new arena to replace the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
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Wisconsin manufacturers might still be in line for high-speed rail production
A lthough a high-speed rail line that was proposed for Wisconsin is instead being built across the state of Illinois just south of the border, some Wisconsin manufacturers ultimately may benefit from the expansion of high-speed rail across the nation anyway, according to a new report by the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC).
34.5%
The Port of Milwaukee saw an increase of 34.5 percent in the amount of cargo traveling to and from foreign ports in 2012. The final numbers show 210,406 metric tons of cargo went through either the St. Lawrence Seaway or by the inland river system to overseas ports.
Lean road to better cars, better health care
Remember a couple of decades when 75,000 miles on a car was time to trade it in? Now, it’s not unusual for an owner to drive a car for 200,000 miles.
Change how transportation is funded
R.E.M initially released their single “It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” in 1987. The refrain line has since become part of our nomenclature for describing various seismic shifts in our world. When it comes to transportation, this expression is extremely apropos in 2013 – thanks to a lot of innovators – some from Wisconsin.
