(WLUK) — A federal infrastructure law is helping fix more roads in Northeast Wisconsin.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is giving $1.48 million to three Wisconsin communities to develop plans to reduce roadway incidents and boost safety.
The three communities are:
Marinette County: $160,000 to create a comprehensive safety action plan to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries. The plan will identify and assess the transportation safety issues facing the county and provide defined action steps to guide the county towards future returns on safety investments.
Greater Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and City of Madison: $1 million to support the development of local safety agency safety action plans and supplemental planning activities to achieve its goal of zero roadway fatalities and serious injuries by 2040. The Greater Madison MPO will support the City of Fitchburg, Village of Shorewood Hills, and Dane County to develop safety action plans and will support the Village of Cottage Grove’s Active Transportation Plan and the City of Verona’s Safe Routes to School Plan.
Rock County: $320,000 to develop a comprehensive safety action plan supplemented by demonstration activities, including piloting high-friction surface treatment, wet reflective pavement markings, and chevrons on a number of curves within the county.
The funding comes through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This is in addition to the over $34 million in SS4A funding secured for Milwaukee, Green Bay, Oshkosh, and La Crosse in September.