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]]>What:
Meeting for the Milwaukee Transit Riders Union. Members, transit advocates and the general public are all invited to attend.
When:
Saturday September 1, 2018 at 10:00am.
Where:
Milwaukee Environmental Consortium
1845 N. Farwell Av. Suite #100 (Farwell/Kane)
Milwaukee, WI 53202-1715
Bus routes: 30, 30X, GoldLine, GreenLine.
Our next meeting will be June 2, 2018 at 10:00am.
]]>Instead of the meeting we are encouraged to attend the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) meeting on Monday April 9.
Milwaukee County Transit System invites you to a public meeting for the East-West Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project and provide your input.
Milwaukee County Transit System invites you to an upcoming meeting to preview the proposed design plans for the East-West Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project and provide your input.
Information will be available on:
MEETING LOCATION
Monday, April 9, 2018 4-6 p.m.
Mitchell Street Library, Community Room
906 W. Historic Mitchell Street
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Guests may park in surface lot to the north of the building and enter building on Mitchell Street.
The public is welcome to come anytime between 4 and 6 p.m. to review project displays, talk with project staff, and provide comments. A presentation will be given at 4:45 p.m.
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS!
Taking Transit?
View routes and schedules at RideMCTS.com, or call MCTS at 414-344-6711.
About
East-West BRT is Milwaukee County’s planned 9-mile, regional, modern transit service connecting major employment, education and recreation destinations through downtown Milwaukee, Milwaukee’s Near West Side, Marquette University, Wauwatosa and the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center.
ADA accommodations
ADA accommodation requests should be filed with the Milwaukee County Office for Persons with Disabilities, 278-3932 (voice) or 711 (TRS), upon receipt of this notice.
Happy Labor Day and see you Saturday September 9.
]]>That means today is our last chance to stop I-94 from being green-lit and another $1 billion of our transportation funding being spent on an unnecessary highway instead of our more important needs!
We are asking you to take action today, and our friends at the Sierra Club made it easy for you by putting together an action toolkit. All you have to do is click this link and participate in one or more possible actions in the toolkit!
Let’s demonstrate the importance of transit and our local roads rather than massive highway projects!
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Routes with service changes:
What’s changing:
The routes 6 and 61 were created as a result of a historic lawsuit filed by Milwaukee Innercity Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH) and the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin over the exclusion of transit in plans for the Zoo Interchange reconstruction project. The routes, known as JobLines, are designed to connect the central city with jobs in the suburbs.
Employers located along the route include FedEx, BuySeasons, Shoeneck Containers,
What’s changing:
What’s changing:
What’s changing: The extension to Packard/Howard is being eliminated to fund the extension of the 27/PurpleLine. Route 51 will now end at Oklahoma/New York (Delaware). The extension was not widely known and not well ridden. The area is still accessible on a limited basis from Route 48 South Shore Flyer. More info here.
The Milwaukee County Transit System deserves praise for implementing a comprehensive set of service improvements while in a tough financial situation.
]]>In order to prevent conflicts with the Labor Day holiday and weekend the September 2016 meeting of the Milwaukee Transit Riders Union has been postponed.
The meeting has been rescheduled for 1 week later, on Saturday September 10, 2016 at 10:00 AM.
The meeting location is unchanged.
Enjoy the weekend!
]]>What does this all mean for bus riders? Several downtown bus routes are proposed to change.
Affected routes: 12, 31, 33, 42U, 44, 79, 90 & 137.
Under this plan, the popular Route 12 will no longer travel on Wisconsin east of 6th and the #31 will turn around at 10th/Wisconsin.
The Transportation, Public Works and Transit Committee of the Milwaukee County Board will be considering the plan at their July 13, 2016 meeting.
One of the goals of this rerouting plan is to move service off of Wisconsin Avenue and onto neighboring streets, according to a Milwaukee Business Journal interview with MCTS Spokesman Brendan Conway. Downtown businesses along Wisconsin Avenue have requested less bus service on the avenue, while businesses elsewhere have requested more service.
Over the years many routes have been moved out of the Downtown Transit Center; south side flyers were moved out of it during the Marquette Interchange project, the #23 was moved out of it in 2012 when the route was changed to run on National and the #14 was moved out of the center when it was changed to run north to Bayshore in 2014. Some routes serving the center have been eliminated altogether, such as the 47 (S. 27th St. Flyer), 39 (Timmerman Flyer) and 45 (Watertown Plank-Capitol Flyer). Today the Center is mostly empty and mostly serves as a layover and break area for drivers.
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