Wisconsin Spends on Billion Dollar Interchanges While Potholes Swallow Roads

An excellent recent Politico article "Overpasses -- A Love Story" -- took a close look at the policies of Republican Presidential hopeful Scott Walker and his big, big spending on highway infrastructure in Wisconsin. It's a pretty sick dynamic.

Highway interchanges in the state are becoming increasingly astronomical in size and in cost. And all that spending on road expansion means there's less to go around for repair. Ironically, it looks like the poor condition of the state's roads might swamp whatever marginal time savings may have resulted from Walker's highway-building bonanza, reports James Rowen at the Political Environment:

Elsewhere on the Network today: Broken Sidewalk reports that Hillerich and Bradsby, the company that makes Louisville Sluggers, has donated a large asphalt lot so it can be transformed into multi-use community space. Walkable Jenkintown says this Pennsylvania borough could build a complete sidewalk system at a cost of $25 per resident, per year. And the Wash Cycle digs up evidence of a groundbreaking but forgotten piece of DC bike infrastructure built in the 1970s.