WHY PUT A BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN PATH ON THE HOAN BRIDGE?
Federal Highway Policy directs local governments to find alternatives to the automobile. $1.5 million of federal money was appropriated to study and construct a suitable bicycle path between Bay View and Downtown Milwaukee. The funding source is the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, Section 1104, Congestion Relief Projects, Subsection (b), This Act was signed into law by President G. H. Bush. WHAT PLANS HAVE COME FROM THIS EFFORT? The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has hired BRW, Inc., a transportation consulting company to work with the Department, a Citizens’ Advisory Committee, and local government. This group has concluded that a bike path on the Hoan Bridge, another on 2nd Street (from Mitchell Street to Pittsburgh Avenue), and yet another on railroad right of way east of First Street are all feasible bicycle paths. At the present time the study group is doing an engineering feasibility study of each of
