I-5 Freeway Expansion Near Rose Quarter in Jeopardy without Federal Funds

Federal funding cut for 6th Street reconstruction project in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE – The 6th Street reconstruction project in Milwaukee will no longer be funded by the federal government. Funding for the $34 million project was cut under President Trump’s tax and spending bill that was signed last week. “This project would have made a high-injury traffic corridor safer, created over 450 good-paying jobs, and created tens-of-millions of dollars in local economic impacts,” said Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson in a sta…

I-5 freeway expansion near Rose Quarter in jeopardy without federal funds

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The plan to expand the I-5 freeway near Portland's Rose Quarter could now be in jeopardy. Promised federal dollars might not show up due to language in the tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4. Travis Decker sighting reported in Idaho, US Marshal’s office investigating The Rose Quarter Project promised $488 million in federal grants, but now it's unsure whether that money will …

Federal funding pulled for Milwaukee's 6th Street reconstruction project

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Milwaukee Mayor Johnson: Statement on the removal of funding for the 6th Street reconstruction project

“Among the harmful cuts congressional Republicans recently enacted is a de-appropriation of money from the USDOT Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program. In Milwaukee, this means the Federal government will no longer fund the $34-million reconstruction of the 6th Street...

Milwaukee loses more than $30 million in funding for 6th Street reconstruction under Trump bill

The funding touted by former President Joe Biden was removed under President Donald Trump.

Milwaukee loses $30M for 6th Street project under Trump tax cut and spending bill

A more than $30 million federal investment into a major Milwaukee corridor has been nixed under President Donald Trump's tax cut and spending bill.The 6th Street Reconstruction Project announced by then-President Joe Biden last March was part of the USDOT Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program which was defunded under spending bill signed into law on July 4.6th Street was widened in the 60s to prioritize "car traffic over the experience of…