![]() ![]() They won a settlement in 2014, which called for $13.5 million in state funding to create bus routes to connect city workers to suburban and exurban jobs.īut the money would cover just four years and is running out at the end of December. ![]() ![]() With that in mind, the Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope and the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit alleging that state planning for the Zoo Interchange failed to consider the transportation needs of economically disadvantaged and minority residents. The result of such decisions is not only residential segregation, but also a separation of city workers from family-supporting jobs in the suburbs. That separation was reinforced by the rebuilding and expansion of the Zoo Interchange expressway, which has helped facilitate and expand suburban sprawl in those counties. This is a story about transportation in two areas that might as well be different countries, they are so separated: the majority-minority City of Milwaukee and the overwhelmingly white surrounding suburbs in Waukesha and Washington counties. ![]()
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