Creative Planning Helped to Avoid Transit Cuts

The Milwaukee County Transit System had planned to reduce service due to a reduction in state aid in 2012. According to Jeramey Jannene, "with some last minute creative planning, they were able to avoid many cuts thanks to the use of CMAQ funds."

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November 3, 2011, 12:00 PM PDT

By David Zeetser

In Milwaukee, the transit system had proposed a new express system, the Bayshore – Airport Express, that will use Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement funds to fund the project instead.

The CMAQ funds, according to Jannene, are "allocated out of a competitive bidding process, and will provide funding to institute 'express service' for two years along a number of key corridors which will replace segments of a number of routes."

Jannene says that the express service "will connect Bayshore, UWM, Downtown, and Bay View with stops roughly every 1/4 of a mile, seven days a week, with headways of 10-15 minutes during the rush hours, and 15-20 minutes during off-peak times."

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