In a show of leadership on Wednesday November 19, 2008; the Milwaukee County Board voted to override Scott Walker’s vetos of budget amendments that alter the fare increase and restore a much needed segment of a bus route in innercity Milwaukee. They deserve our thanks and support.
Starting April 1, 2008 bus service will return to Vliet Street between 60th Street and downtown. Route 11 will serve Washington Park, the Cold Spring Park neighborhood, the Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Community Center as well as the Marcia CoggsHuman Services Building. (Yes-Walker did cut the bus that people took to get their benefits.)
In the upcoming months we will be finding out what MCTS plans to do with the Holton Street portion of Rt. 11 that was, up until last March served by Rt. 14. It would be devastating to that neighborhood to lose Holton Street bus service, and would deepen the problem of overcrowding on the two bus routes that parallel Holton: Rt. 19 on Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. and Rt. 10 on Humboldt Bd.