Milwaukee Mass Transit
A public information and town hall meeting will be held Thursday, April 24 to discuss the possibility of extending Chicago’s Metra commuter rail line to downtown Milwaukee. The Metra line currently runs as far as Kenosh WI(about 40 miles S of Milwaukee).
SEWRPC is conducting a detailed planning study on the topic starting at 4pm be in the Harbor Lights Room of the Downtown Transit Center, 909 E. Michigan St, followed by a presentation at 6pm and open town hall forum meeting at 6:30pm. the South Eastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Committee website has more information.
If you’re a Milwaukee county resident who’s interested in the future of mass transportation in our area, try to attend! With recent news of the Trolley service in Milwaukee being shut down this fall, our city’s public transportation situation is in dire straights. Hooking us up with the Chicago Metra line would only help to increase the amount of travel between the two metro areas, while decreasing pollution and traffic.
Milwaukee County Politics, Politics | Dan Cody | 
April 21, 2003 3:25 pm
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
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By mnickel, April 21, 2003 @ 7:38 pm
OOooooo
This would be very cool. What would the transit time ETA be? If it were 1 hour’ish, one could conceivably live in Milwaukee and work in Chicago…
Imagine your social life?
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By djc, April 21, 2003 @ 10:14 pm
42 minutes was what I saw in a PDF for this project. 3/4’s of an hour between Milwaukee and Chicago downtowns would kick ass.
By Miriam, April 22, 2003 @ 10:41 am
That would kick SO. MUCH. ASS!