COMSTftUCTlON Of 3-ClGJCWAy 141 AND TWESTNT1-43 TXTHTSSlVAy
COMTILTTt, JAND WESTARCtfEV By MIMI BI'KD 1982-1992 Thotographs By Mimi 'BirdandBernice Xiedrow, 3-feraCd Trio tographer
JArchivaCmateriaCs, incCuding the aCBum, were donated by the yvhitefish Bay foundation £ COMPILED AND RESEARCHED BY MIMI BIRD, THESE VOLUMES ARE HER LEGACY TO WHITEFISH BAY AND AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL HISTORY.
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MIMI BIRD, 1933-2002
Mimi Bird knew just what she wanted for a final resting place. After all, she spent years of her life exploring the Town of Milwaukee Union Cemetery, tucked away north of Bayshore Mall in Whitefish Bay. She remembered running through the cemetery as a girl "to scare ourselves on Halloween". Years later, as a neighbor and a historian, she began tending the litde cemetery and quite literally, uncovering its history.
Bird died of emphysema Thursday at the Glendale condominium she called home the last four years. She was 69. "She really died from cigarette smoking" said husband John D. Bird. "That's what did it."
She was born Miriam Young in Milwaukee. When she was 4, her parents moved to Whitefish Bay. That was where she grew up and spent her adult life. It was also where she became the undisputed expert on local history, both in the village and the greater North Shore area.
In her earlier years Bird had worked as a secretary. She met her husband when their mothers—concerned about their two twenty-something children remaining unmarried—managed to fix them up for a date. She spent the next decades in volunteer work, including at their children's schools, and working part time for the Whitefish Bay Public Library. In 1976, she began to research her genealogy and that of her husband's family. As that was winding down in the early 1980s, Bird heard about the Whitefish Bay Historical Society.
Her first project involved locating, photographing and researching hundreds of the oldest homes in the village. All kinds of other research followed. Some of the leads took her to the Town of Milwaukee cemetery. There she looked for sunken spots, sticking a spade into the ground. She found dozens of old fallen tombstones, buried by time under the earth "I just had this wonderful feeling of elation when I'd find an old one," Bird said in a 1983 interview. "The tombstones were the only (surviving) records of births and deaths."
Bird filled volumes with everything from real estate records to the early details of village life, its farms, businesses and people. She pored over the minutes of every Village Board meeting from 1892 until 1950. She interviewed old- timers, acquiring old letters and documents. Bird eventually researched the rest of the old Town of Milwaukee, which includes what's now the North Shore area, and the adjacent Town of Granville. And when Whitefish Bay had a 100th anniversary in 1992, she produced a book on local history. In 1991, Bird was recognized by the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Her research continues to be available at the Whitefish Bay Library, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library, the County Historical Society and the Milwaukee Central Library's local history room.
Survivors include her husband, John; sons David J. and Peter E.; brother Carter H. Young; grandchildren; and other relatives...Her ashes will be buried at the Town of Union Cemetery. [Obituary by Amy Rabideau Silvers for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/14/02.] ^na^MfeSrg^emehi^l^^fm: OpenBids; wor^ Approve House &, People .living in the neigh- bbrhood of Gfotthardt's proper Highway* 141 ty have long charged that rat$ •'i Permit Reside in, the' junk accumu October 11 lated for, years on the prop ft- erty. The junk includes wood : Bids on the- grading ^and For Gotthardt I of all kinds, gasoline tanks placing of a ,base ' course on^ "and empty cans and barrels', 3.2 miles of U. S. Highway A I Despite previous warnings all of which the complainants H41, between W. Silver Spring and instructions to clean up charge constitutes a fire ^ haz jdr. and the north county * line "his property, Ben Gotthardt, ard., " .--» ".'* y ' '* y Yc ;on Daphne rd., will be opened N. Montclaire -ave'* j« last week 1 'in Madison on Octl 11, at 9:30 (received approval from the \-\ Approve Station ^ ja.m., according to Edward J. planning commission to move Approval for a filling station Konkol, executive secretary of .another house on his property. at the northeast corner of N. 'the Wisconsin Good Roads ' Gotthardt will ,< move the Green Bay and. Bender rds. >assn. . » ' .£ Degner residence, now at 5901 to be erected,by Socony (Mo- I The project calls for uriclas- I N. 'Port Washington. rd.,< t
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RE: ABOVE AKTICyS - Start The house Ben Gotthardt moved is located at 401 W. Msntclaire Ave. It was moved due to Highway 141 For Green Tree construction (now 1-43). WW • , Adopt- Ordinance Allowing Wideningfo The woman living in the house at Port at Hampton for New Traffic Lane?! 401 W. said the underground springs 1 ' ' * • • *• <';/<$ still cause many basement problems The city of Glendale will start condemnation prode (if necessary) ,t~ ™* "—*- "*- s- A -*'«**'• in that area of Glendale. Tree rd. it was City Attorney f that he had been unable to obtain, the necessary road dedi«| In the late 1880 s and into the early cations for the improvement of the road. The councilftoltil 1920?s, the springs formed a lake in him to i pick up dedications where he could, and prpceedrwithl ' condemnations wherry erftne^l this area, named Crystal Springs Lake. essary. The area in question! is.presently without city £erv-4§ It was developed as a resort area, ices for snow plpwmg, * ana%i% with a saloon, tiny cottages and boats inaccessable to fire trncks.$| The council passed an' brdtl for rowing on the lake. nance allowing city,,foree$^to| prttce'ed with^tjhe wider'"--•»* It was filled in for a residential sub NT Port Washin^fonnFcTw at «tnej division in the l&te 1920f s and early Hampton ave. intersection'fol ? all6# an additional ^traifiql 1930 s; the subdivision was named for lane. They a!S6 authorized^ the,? the lake. Ctty^ of Milwaukeev Xor moVel the stoplight at the
3. Award Gieringer; Expressway $34,200 for i Poses Problem To Brady Co. Road Damage Representatives of the W.'J H. Brady co., 727 W. Glendale*j .' Robert H. . Gieringer, , who! ave., told the city plan com-{*i operates a nursery at 5485; mission. Monday night thatj| N.! Port; Washington rd., was, expressway construction will'| awarded* $34,200 damages : by? gobble up most of the landrl a county court Thursday./This they hope to use for expan v settles the last dispute over sion. r ' ' ' - .*• taking land for the new High ; President William Brady'{ way 141 by the state high* asked the commission's help way department. :in preventing the expressway; *"' The damages were granted •from blocking-off the south by Judge Rudolph J. Mudroch {end of the Brady property .in and were based on the fact * building. He " said that" ex?| that the new elevated high pressway plans in 1958 showed way breaks the Gieringer- the expressway^ "just skirtv a property into two parts. % ing the South end of our,] Gieringer was awarded $29,- land." Final expressway] 018.13 by the state \on Mayi plans would lise up 200 feet 24, 1936, * with the county? of land needed for expansion,! board's highway comrh|tteei and cut the plant off from al acting as agent. Gieringerf proposed railway spur track.! appealed to the county court/ Vice-President Elliot Huesef; claiming damages of ,$75,460. asked the city to persuade About 1.64 acres of the the expressway planned to Gieringer property was taken change construction plans to; over by the state. Gieringer spare the 200 feet. He sug-f had a 300 foot frontage on | gested that the proposed via N. Port Washington rd. This duct might be moved back to« extended 400 feet west to the 1 allow room for the Brady| Milwaukee river. Now he has plant. He also suggested' an| two parcels of land, about extension of the bridgeworkf four acres west of the hewj so that the ground below >the ,|f . road and tw:o acres east of bridge cari be used. - y• » , j ^the road, v.' Y y. •'"•• y f "\ i y ''If they go ahead' with i f The court ease brought out 'yiheir plans it will * render J| that, the new elevated road ^; the whole property useless';? left Gieringer's property with ** to usv We } have to grow; 3 a man made, depression and we like the; industrial cU- M that Gieringer had to pur chase additional adjacent mate here/' said Brady. property for $3,800 and then t The commission sympa-1| had to fiH the east trade /to I The commission sympa^j the! level of the purchased thized with the company's! property at a cost of $5,000. plight and told the city coun-\| 'Other expenses: reconstruc cil to authorize City Engineer| tion of greenhouses, $6,500; D. W. Webster to meet with* and; other items, $7,500. expressway authorities on- al solution to the Brady problem;! Judge Mudroch held that \ Mayor Gerald Kenehanj some of the buildings are not Earned, however, that the ex-| as '*• useful a's they wer^ be- pressway commission, "nasi forer the land was taken and an iron wand up there*": The | that the new road left/ the Council acted Tuesday night/ owner without access from ,to authorize > Webster's rnis-: one parcel to the other. Gier : j inger must not take a circuit sion. - *«\ y * , U ^ ous route on public highways ^to go from one propertyv to: ^the other. i / ~H**+i © deai- Perth for T% pxpressway•t*q State Highway ^^The city ^council began ac-| k.lh i •. tion Tuesday^, night to clear* a^nath for the proposed. North- Commission . * S^uth expressway. i , \, Fpllowing notification from the1 state highway.commission Lowers Speeds that-.construction of Milwau The state highway commis kee Kiver bridges should be sion has agreed to a 40 mile1 gin about Oct. 2, the, council per hour speed limit for High decided to complete tjnanhole construction in the area, and way 141, extending to the Chi-s >< „ cago and Northwestern rail proceed with vacation of way overhead, north of Bend ' streets and alleys in the ex-l er rd. : '• ;."•'•'•.••/ \> •'./ •• j pressway path. • J A letter received by the The . council, heard from! Giendale city council Tuesday City Engineer D. W. Webster t, that construction of two new night acceded to Glendale's manholes in 'Rock pi* should demand for a lowered speed: " be finished by Qct. 2, and limit on the highway and ,that a third manhole should granted, other concessions: be abandoned. , 1. The highway commission i The." council set Oct. 28 , at agreed i to construct steel 8:30 p.m. as a date for a beam plate guards between ; hearing . on the vacation of the through roadways and| W.*Rbckpl«, N. 6th st. and service roads, where they are' a portion of an alley which narrowly separated from jfchej lie in the expressway path highway; y ? * •:! 2. Highway lighting will be* installed from W. Lexington j blvd. to north of the Green, Tree rd. The ramps at Sil-» •tlOu^&M l<&*-<^<£ ver Spring dr.; and Highway 100 will also be lighted. 3. Brentwood la.'s openings on the highway will be Closed. .;' . '"•)' vr| \ . Stop Signs y Council members expressed; their satisfaction with the:' He Added that citizens ' of "; % comrnission's concessions. The! Glendale should write to Madi- hM only city request denied byr son, letting the highway com- the commission after extent mission know their1 wishes\re-: sive traffic studies was a plea: garding speed limits* for stop lights at the Benderj As ya result of Sweeney*s ^ yfj and Green Tree rds. intersec suggestion' the councij decided - ^i tions. f ••'-'; •> *• to ask. the help from parents yjl oi; Glendale .school. children in vf| impressing, the sjkie-"'with 'tf| Glendale's opposition to the proposed 50 mph limit/on; the y^'I new highway., ;* ;' 'yU%* ' ^Vyf jytyyfi * The council decided f<>/Vv9 Ask Parents ' seek assistance, from the y;'}*M Glendale school board ^ and ^ local PTA groups. City Attorney George Pren !?I tice recommended that* the state be ? given a' choice be- '*: \ 9 tween a lower speed limit or^m • Westf a M Threatens to Filibuster )' :^\]"Xi§ installation of stop lights; atl^ 1 J Glendale Council to Secure Action 'v^ V" t y;|||| all the road intersections. '~* *.<$M 1 '- ' , i. ' * * -yyl Still smarting oveT^accusa->"iM The city*council has decided to ask Glendale parents to -y# tionsTsE tne jvmwauKee Jour- write state highway authorities requesting a 40 mile per hour ,$ naTgTanhey'arg'a Mhbrse and" speed limit for Highway 141. The request followed a filli-; ^f;; buggy city government" de-* buster threat from Alderman Elroy Westfahl'Tuesday night.'^yJy ijM™ fentfioriherrs!an^rr "" ' ")" y y^ ! Westf ahl threatened to'fillibuster the council meeting inS- /""J Concerxr'"ls Safety ' ' \ an attempt to get action to keep speed limits on the new -'.«%m * Alderman R o.b e r t' Cayze _ Highway 141 at 40' mph. His threat brought a promp tx offer- -j/>m said:/"If they had *instaUed £11 froni Alderman "Lloyd Swee-y&?J| r ney to serve as an audience of y\P a real speedway*we wouldn'tyt J§ one for as long as Westf ahl ^ have any objections ..Our chief *-3 could continue speaking.v ^ . >;£ concern is getting schobl child- Sweeney defended the coun- \l ren and motorists safety cil's lack of decisive action' on yy_ across all those intersections.'v the ground that the , council 'y^S '*I don't think people realize ; has no power to force the l;|l just how they built that road/' state to accept its'wishes re-v*-3l Mayor Gerald J. Kenehan garding speed limits tot .the •„ added. VI wish they'd >take' a road. VM ' - • > '.W^y^''-'^ > > look at all those grade, cross- yy ings before1 they start calling,! 'names." £i . ,. ^< t'i}\x&&&*& r •> n'rfvrv'j/ f"*.&*y@ Head-on Collision Over Hwy. 141 in City • Highway Engineer Plautz Promises More y ^ ^f Signs and Lane Marking to Aid Traffic } 'vjj Irate Glendale citizens and two representatives of the* state highway commission met in a head-on collision Tuesday night at the city council' meeting. ?The conflict arose over| speed limits and traffic problems on the* newly; opened^ Highway 141. J y . - ' fl ' • ." ' ^^ Some 50 people gathered in the municipal building to; confront iState Highway Engineer Ed Plautz and Waynes Volk, representing the highway commission, with demands! ror stop-lights at the' Greeny Tree and Bender rds. inter-;i (section, lowered speed limits* J the closing of Brentwood Id.,.| safe crossing for school buses J •carrying Glendale children11 >and signs directing traffic/to»| T T ijhe W. Service rd. ahd rnark-1 [As. a result^of the 5mall3 /ing traffic.. lanes * :'e [ '•• 'p;;;' /yyyyyfconcession s obtained front thel conference vdth ; the highwayl j; Plautz^and Volk countered^ men; Edward •Rhodes* 606 Wil |with sympathetic eyasiori;| Acacia rd.;y rose1 to' request;| iThey stated that nothing could jj •the names of Highway C0rri*| be done to lower the speed! mission members, 50 'fthat^ limits or install stop * light£| Glendale residents could jnak^l •~TT until they had made an e^c-| their wishes known directly^ Allow 59 MPH tensive study of^ the traffic! Plautz reluctantly furnishe4| on the highway, and presentedI the names: of Commis• g.i$hi the results to Madison. ^ Jjiffs| jmembers • Plumber, OlyJi| On Highway 141 J They called stopr lights S aiif Hughes and iAhner. rAlderhian| additional source o$ traffic ac*i Llo^d Sweeney added? thef The ' Glendale city council ^eiderits (rear-end ' collisions)! name }v of 'County {kipervisotj reluctantly passed an ordi irather than a safety measure*! !"Vyhite to the list. y> : yy;fw| nance Tuesday night (adopt and left the problem of ; s^felf j As ythe meeting adjourned J ing the 50-mile an hour speed school bus crossings Squgireljrl it became evident ,that' a! limit favored by the state high in the lap of Glendale's pblifee)^ write-in campaign was- being] way commision for Highway V After more than an hou^'^i organized by heads of the city j 141. The council was forced to badgering from the audiencil advancement associations ahdf adopt the speed ordinance so| and the council Plautz prom-1 other ^members y of 1h#^idii its police can arrest speeders ised that additional signs varid|§ ence. /-; '• •-•^V;y:T- ^'^"^^Si"-'^ on the. new highway. The. lane stripeing will be installed! r The city 'had cornel Weill 'speeyfl limit set by the state to direct traffic on therhight*l armed for battle with Plautzf -highway commission had to be way and service,;roads.;:^||^ and Volk. Officer FrankyRei-1 made law in Glendale to make mer of the Glendale* police! the arrests legal. ; ! Volk told the councD thaill departrhent presented e o 1 pr| Council members indicated , it could apply for *red flash movie's and slides of trafficf however, that they still favor ing "school" zohe*# signs ib||| conjestion at Bender and| the 40-mile an hour limit which .operate during th© bus cros*y Green/Tree rds,-• intersections if they requested from the high sings, and -added that th*t r;'- The f movies brought y6on^l way commission. The commis '-. commission wpu 1 dye 16He; sion controls the setting of the Brentwood la. at a( formal igratulations from the^audi-~r speed1 limits for the highway ., request from ; the; council.'.,..^ ^ence as each cai* made it Radar Checks 1 The men also promised to ^ * safely* across the intersec- Police Chief Arthur Tietz move "50 MPH" speed limit jtions. They also shawed was authorized by the coun signs past the Bender road graphically the problems en cil to take radar checks ol' v :i countered by school.busses. speeds on the highway, anc . intersection. " '--•^''^-^-^ to keep an accurate account In action following the hbar-| The pictorial evidence was of all traffic accidents occur- ing, the council officially! reinforced with ' radar traffic ing on the road. The account asked the1 state highway com-1 check records presented by of the first week's speedsters mission for the "school, zone'!| Police Chief Oscar Tietz.'The and collisions will be present signs and closing \ of Breht-| record had been made by ed to the state highway engin wood la. In addition; %e&pin>| Officer Mai Jaeger.Vi y r \ : r ; eer, Wayne Voljc of Madison cil reqeu^ted vthe temporairy| ,\. ' - V Some . Arrests,^''* V ' when he meetsywith the coun lowering, of the speed limit 'tojf Police Chief Tietz said that cil next Tuesday night. forty miles per hourlytintil I somev arrests had been/made - The $tate highway commis traffic patterns have been es^3 if or speeds as high as sixty- sion notified the council by tablished for the road/They $ rseven miles per homv '! letter Tuesday night that it also requested light ,installa-| was taking jurisdiction of the tions on the highway* ' >; '5;t% In addition to the police evi new highway as far south as dence came the protests of Marne ave. near Lincoln park audience members and coun 'Letters also told the councl lejio/ii&j cil members. Donald Gates [that stop signs will be placed 6544 N* Green Tree ct., presi tat the Brentwood la.., entry to dent of the Clovernook Ad-l Highway 141. Motorists will vancement assn. called the have to stop at the highway intersection, b u t will have right of way over the service drives at,each side of the high- C^NI^U^C/^ZA ybB^f pa # V ^ y»/y/frs-7 *' .' i> 'V y,<, '- ,k.•'»*..;. -i» , V highway an "eleven million modernation to the/proceed tttfi «fiftAL» dollar death trap." ings. He reminded the audi Thurs., Oct;. 10, 1957—Page 5 He said that Clovernook res ence that the opening of High idents were forced to cross way 57 and Silver Spring rd. He added that time and use the road since they had no should help the traffic prob should solye most of the prob other exit from their homes. lem at the Bender and Ctfeen lems, and that other difficul "When anyone arrives safe Tree intersections/ He re ties would be taken care of ly home, they feel lucky to quested, however, that the, en after commission study. "We have made it," he addedi trance to Brentwood la. be have controlled access eicept Gates demanded stop lights closed. at intersections" Plautz aver immediately at the Green Charles Mandel,, 7155' N. ted. This brought jeers from Tree and Bender rd. intersec Green Tree ct. summed up the audience. ' • *' , tions," since the road was not the sentiments of the audience y A request for an educa- [ tion , program for "users ; of designed as a limited-access when he demanded traffic v mghway. lights or police protection tot I ike highway brought a j Speaking for the River Hills the intersections. \ "Don't let prompt reply from Carl Ot-r residents, Gates expressed us wait until a whole bus-load j en of 222 W. Appletree rd. parent concern over the of School children is killed!" "I've used h i g h w a y s \ all school bus crossings. He he exclaimed. ./y - * over the country,** he stated warned the'highway commis "but I'v^v never found one sion representatives that some Plautz answered some of cbursey .ok? instruction!"' morning you .may wake up to the complaints by assuring i Mayoral Gerald Kenehan find a human chain blocking residents that difficulties called thev, highway problem all traffic on your highway— were normal in the opening the "biggest thing; that has at. the risk of arrest from our of f a new road. He said that ever happened to' Glendale. own police!" the residents would have to He promised, the citizens that Ray Marquardt of Cedar- become educated regarding the council would continue re burg, owner and operator of its user and break their old quests to the commission until the school buses said that the traffic habits. -.'••••'.••» ^ the city got results. ' highway crossing made him "sick." He said that his buses cross the highway more than 100 times a day, at Nicolet high school alone.' He said that the drivers. cannot get a clear view from the driveway of north-bound traffic in clear weather; wonder how they could make safe crossings in winter. He added' that the (drivers have a , thrity-foot driveway to manuever turns into the service road. He later asked for flashing "school crossing" signs.- * Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Young of the Orchard Fair cited the difficulties their par ents had in finding access to the W. Service rd. at Silver Spring dr. They' asked that signs be placed, clearly mark ing the entrance. Want Lights .'•• Kenneth Greaves, 235 W. Bender rd. injected a note of ' Authorization for lights in front of the Square D plant I^^he^cbuncil'9n s street lighting . . ... , ^ on W. Good Hope rd. was de g! ?. represent about half of layed pending a conference be nar. The Electric Co. reore- ISty Alight, Si tween the company's officials sentaive told the council lit and Mahar. \ ) his plan would provide good > Mayor Gerald J. Kenehan lighting. He disavowed any re- Service Roads reported that Square D want x s sponsibility for the cuts in his special fixtures fronting its .Plan authorized by the council Glendale's city council acted plant; f Tuesday night to light the lat ^5hafl I""* St* ^ lights service road bordering High Mahar replied that the Elec way 141. In consultation with tric Co. never furnishes any ' TJZI SX* °» both'service J. F. Mahar of the Electric*Co., thing but wood poles and over 'f£ VThe council defended the council reviewed Mahar/'s head wiring, and that Square Jh»*aST ?n *he grounds plans for lighting the roads. D would have to pay the bill that Mahar's plan would cost Members then instructed for any substitute. He added the city a "fortune"; approx Mahar to light all the inter that the post holes had already imately $3,700 annually; sections on the highway from been dug in front of the plant The council also nopes for *, on Highway 14iy Th^se Silver Spring dr. north to the and asked for a prompt deci Ulc b furni sion before someone was hurt, JT - l £ sbed and main city limits. Areas in between tained by the state highway intersections will have lights stepping into open post holes. 8 way at.intervals of about 400 feet. commission. < - i fo-ll-W&J <3e^dla4> /sfa^d Governor Studies Hazards of New Highway v s % s \* ^'/ *<%'^/"\ &\ "'< ^y'/y ''\*; ' x *'^, ^" J\y\-' *||jp?\ ^>y; - y- ^y-v & / Y '*// ^; /" | ^yy ^V" 'y \iyvv vY y -v/Yv ,V*,;?Y i¥' Uv*>^W"*^.Jt^4w»st^ Mayor Kenehan and Governor Thomson, de'r rd. The Whitefish Bay water tower is left to right, survey the hazardous situation in the background, at the corner of Highway 141 and the,Ben- —Herald Photo , —— ' , "/n/ttfy Mayor Kenehan and Chief Tietz•ftmm "TWhile they were discuss 'View Highway With Gpv\ Thomson ing the problem of speeding an accident nearly, occurred Mayor Gerald J. Kenehan at the Bender and Green Tree at the corner as cars were and the Police Chief Oscar rds., as "these are hazardous approaching at all four in Tietz, met with Governor crossings*" Another general tersections when one motor Thomson, Monday afternoon, criticism was a lack of ade ist attempted to slide Oct. 14th, at the corner of quate signs to guide the mo through the rest and missed Highway 141 and the* Bender torists to the correct lanes. being hit by4 a few inches. rd., to survey the hazards of It was indicated that Green This perfect demonstration the new expressway. Tree rd. is too hazardous for of the need for traffic lights In Kenehan's explanation to a school crossing and is being] at the corner prompted a po Governor Thomson concerning used for fire trucks. liceman at the scene to call it the difficulties of the highway, It was also stated that the "suicide corner." ' he stated that Glendale offi four feet wide concrete isteps Governor Thompson stated cials do not consider it to be along the highway are danger that he was just observing an expressway in the true ous because they blend in with and gathering facts* and that sense of the word as it does the road, thereby making his conclusions will be pre not provide limited access on them difficult to see. sented to. the state 'highway to the road. He recommended Kenehan stated that they Lcommission in the near future. a reduction of speed to 40 were "fighting the law of aver miles per hr. and stop lights age" and that people 'were* "hopping mad" about the sit-; uation. I iojn/19^ • -Alderwoman Olive^Z £II e r Drop River Level feared that the drop in water level might affect wells along the river. "We used to laugh For Bridge Work at people who said the river level affected their wells. But we put a gauge on our well, and we're not laughing any mit construction of bridges^ SOU ex more," she said.* %T$: $ P^ssway: Mayor Kenehan said that Plan Consultant Roland Her- the water level drop was prob tel informed the city council d ght the ably set before the letting of rn^v X^ water d?op contracts for bridge building. may affect recreation on the river during the coming year "The water level will cer ^V*frald Kenehan Ixl tainly affect the cost of putting pressed doubt that the levpl in those bridges," said Kene han. City Engineer D. W. would tbe lowered enough fo curb skating or swimmhTg in Webster said that, a 33 ft the river, since the drop has level was probably the depth been approved by the countv set for the river water. Park commission. - county Mud Flats Replace Span Where River Flowed The Milwaukee river mud bottom makes a picturesque scene as it glistens in the bright sun. The water was drained from the river recently to facilitate bridge con- struction for the expressway. —fcterald photos r*YV* 5yY>^y -Xrv , ^pyy^i^yM-4l yYu yh*£ -*'.'y *' ; v vYV :.kUUHCHIN0-l 'MfeNI nf(z//?ssJ This sign along the Milwaukee river comes in the category o* useless.items. There is scarcely enough water left at this point to sail a toy boat. H) Panorama of Vehicles HigHliglftf Plan Ceremony Dedication of New Highway 141 Fer Port Rd. • Nicolet High Senior Shirley Andersoi^o* y i • ,V Reopening \U:% Crowned Queen: Mayor to Give Address The re-opening of Port Bibbon; cutting ceremonies [ Washington, rd* will be cele will be held at Bay ;Shorey brated Sunday,' Nov. 3, 2:30 shopping center Sunday after-1 p.m., with a,ceremony at Bay noon to mark, the celebration | Shore shopping center and a of the opening of the new Highr f jparade of traffic on the new way 141 and/ its atten4ant \ Iroad." " \ service f roads,; replacing/the j (The program is being spon- 1 old Port Washington/rd; > -1 !| • sored by the North Shore Governor Thomsoii has been] assn. of Commerce and the ; | Glendale Business council; It invited to the event, ;bufr|tC'-| I will include a safety slogan cording to Tom Simofa^atidf| j contest. Gus Harmes, co-chairmeri{of| '' The parade will include new the event, word has hot beei£| vehicles, pld vehicles, and road equipment. The vehicu received of his acceptance. Si- i lar parade will be accbmpan- mota and Harmes; are;presi-*;? ied by NicoleV high school dents ; of the Glendale Busi-i band. ness council and i: the; Nortel Assembly Point Shore Association; of Com^ Point of assembly for ] the j merce, co-Sponsors^ of the Insurance, licenses, govern mental permission, Oberndor fer. '•'•. Bands, Hallenberg.^ _. _ to/jifrttrj \% (Reroute Traffic Over "Old" Road To Complete Hy. 141 Overpass Glendale got caught with a stop light out Tuesday eve ning. The absent light at Sil- 1 ver Spring dr. and Port Wash ington, rd. was brought to the city council's attention by Lieut. Leonard Weber of the j,Glendale police department. * Weber told the council that j starting Wednesday all traf fic presently traveling the j overpass on highway 141 wil] be rerouted diown the rebuill "old" Port * Washington rd. The rerouting will be used so the highway department can complete * work on the over pass,, /X/Y// t?/ ^L^lJk /kt*£d 4-Way Stop Meanwhile the stoplight at Silver Spring dr. and the Port Washington rd. awaited instal lation. The council authorized Y-YY-' yY - ^Y Y;y the four-way stop sign for the intersection -with police traf fic direction during the rush traffic hours. Council members were as sured that the stoplights would be installed by Friday at the latest. . ' ! In another matter involving highway * traffic, the council decided hot to oppose the city of Wauwatosa's request that highway 100 cease to be the principal bypass route »for trucks going around Milwau kee. After some discussion of possible truck traffic through Glendale in the event that the bypass is ended,; the council decided that Glendale would suffer" no ill effects. .* The council will not send a representative to the hearings " Y • Yt£>y;lSliM^^iiM^d scheduled by the public serv This truck driven by Harry Spychala, 723 E. Mineral ice commission. st./ turned over Nov. 28th in the, 5900 block of US 141 when its brakes failed causing the trailer to swerve out:, of control. Glendale firemen were called to wash away spilled gasoline and oil. Police directed traffic until the i truck which blocked a lane of north and south bound . traffic Was righted by a wrecker; —Herald photos j ^4, /QA^TL^JIA^ dJrm^e . 00 Hoar Frost Does Not Halt Expressway Project Construction on the expressway bridge being built near the south side of the t near. Port ^Washington and Hampton rds. *' river and 'the ;$iher pictures construction * has been proceeding despite the cold , work on the north bank in Lincoln park. .i. weather. One picture shows the supports ' —Herald photo ll/lllllrf SK fliJignwiy^mmissioi n Completes $16,000 Planting Project on Hy. 141 More than 10,000 plants, It is also expected to' cut soil shrubs and trees have been erosion and provide a screen planted along'.-the new U.S. against the lights of Bay Highway 141, primarily in Shore Shopping center, ^ Glendale, E. G. Plautz, dis Altogether* 9,948 shrubs and trict engineer for the state plants and 215 trees were "highway commission, an planted during the two-phase nounced Monday. project, which featured & ' This $16,000 project, : which spring planting from March is intended not only to beau 31-May 22, and the replace tify this area, but also to pro ment of dead plans, from Oct vide for more economical and 23-Nov. 20. practical year-round main This is part of a continuing tenance involved a two month program of the state highway spring planting and a month- < long fall replacement' pro-commission to combine beauty | gram. It was completed with utility on Wisconsin high Thursday, Nov. 20. ways. j#y For the one-mile stretch j* from W. Lexington blvd. to yW> Bender rd., the Milwau- ' kee metropolitan district, with (, adyicie and assistance from • Dist. Engineer Plautz Meets with the landscape architects of the pounty park board, ahd^ Vwith plans reviewed and ac-j Muncie Reps, on Hy. 141 Hazards % cepted by the planning boardi ' ^ _ _ :u,-iu« «f cp 1la os sinjg^^oin fit f f f^ttid the Glendale common j Representa tives of Fox i possibility of c 1 "af^c T Dean | cMncil planted willows and Point, Bayside; River Hills I Bradley, Calumet locust trees along the river and Glendale will meet atl WZ banks, with shrubbery at the; the Fox Point village hall, River Hills Manager J. M Silver Spring interchange. I Monday, March 30, 8 p. m., to Frederickson stated that Riv V •»•!•'•' ,v ' • ' V '-si hear District Engineer Ed er Hills representatives are Such shrub planting on the Plautz of the Milwaukee met attending the meeting with interchange slopes, both at I ropolitan district of the state "open minds." R?W. ^Silver Spring dr. and W. highway department, outline Glendale Mayor Gerald Ken Brown Deer rd., reduces possible plans for eliminat ehan pointed out that this maintenance costs, and the ing traffic hazards at Bender meeting is an outgrowth of planting of fast-growing trees, and Green Tree rds., and one held last fall in Governor ysucv h itas sugar maple, honey Highway 141. locust and ash, provides im Vernon Thomson's office in mediate^ beautifying results. "The state highway depart Madison in which the manag ment is proposing," Plautz ers and presidents of the vil said, "that interchange facil lages and city in question re ities be eliminated at both quested attention to this prob points. Our plan is to build lem. Plautz also attended this an overpass for Hignway j41 earlier meeting. , Dyer Bender road,, and to con Nicolet school board repre •WP6 &^*^ struct an unaerpass for*High- sentatives will be invited . to Vay 141 under Green Tree the meeting ^jijriere wilibe a separation W grades." Fox Point Manager W. J. 31ong stated that Fox Point is particularly interested in correcting ffe Oreen—Tree rd. hazard RITIPP gphnnl hnses and sftude^lp and parents driv ing ears to reach Nicolet high school, must cross at this • point. "~~^ "*" Y It was the consensus of opinion at the Bayside village board meeting last, Thursday night that limited access to Highway 141 jwould be desir able. Also mentioned was the I 13 w North Shore Expressway 1 - • ..JP.. ' The north shore expressway, a major artery rd. north, it forms the boundary between Glendale for the metropolitan area, runs north and south and River Hills. This view is looking south from through Glendale, following close to N. Port Wash- the W.jGreen Tree rd. overpass. At the right is ington rd. most of the way. From W. Green Tree Nicolet highschool. —Herald Photo CZfyiLfty /? 15 (Qtc."^ 'q(<(, fCSl_ a sue. a. S^J^^^y fa ftjufLf' H it <4-K ^y^c^ / 3AL1 ^n&t^-f ty ^cA4 eo^vt M. /Qtx^ <±A Aiy1*A-V '- 3//*//97* l=h I? Iff*s£m>. i^: • i'^lk Friday, February 1,1985 » Page 4, Part 1 Views mixed on I-43 plans By Rick Romell ; A gas station and car wash at the northwest corner of Silver Spring Community news editor and Port Washington would have to Glendale — Not surprisingly, pub be razed under one plan. All the de lic opinion varied Thursday as alter signs would take parts of properties native plans were unveiled for re owned by a nursery, the German building the North-South Freeway Society and the Wisconsin Electric interchange with W. Silver Spring Power Co. southwest of the present Dr. interchange. Some people who drive through the interchange, considered by engi "We're very disturbed about that neers to be one of the worst in the because no matter what they do it's area, studied drawings of five pro going to hurt us," said Anton Moser, posals and said anything would be an president of Deutsches Land. The improvement. organization oversees the German Society's 17-acre parcel, which In But others who live on or own cludes the Bavarian Inn restaurant, a property near the project were shak park and a soccer field. ing their heads, or their fists. Among those affected by the pro One plan would take about half posals would be a few homeowners the society's 450-car parking lot, on Jean Nicolet Rd. north of Silver which Moser said was filled for some Spring Dr., and the United German events. Society, which owns a 17-acre park While there were objections to the just west of the freeway at Lexing plans, Transportation Department ton Ave. project manager David Molitor said The interchange plans were pre the meeting also attracted a relative sented by the, Howard Needles Tarn- ly unusual type of participant — men & Bergendoff engineering firm, people who didn't live near the af consultant to the State Transporta fected area, but used the interchange tion Department for the project, at a and urged that it oe rebuilt well-attended, Informal meeting at City Hall. Halfway through the five- Molitor roughly estimated the hour meeting, about 70 people had project cost at $5 million to $9 mil signed in. ] lion. Cheapest, he said, would be the diamond interchange and a "partial Besides the "do-nothing** alterna cloverleaf." tive, the engineering firm showed proposals ranging from a simple The diamond would eliminate exits diamond to trilevel interchanges. onto Port Washington Rd. but re quire more traffic lights on Sliver All of the designs would do away Spring. The cloverleaf would elimi with the current problem of the same nate left turns onto Silver Spring but lane being used both by drivers require an extra bridge over the speeding up to enter the freeway and Milwaukee River. by those slowing to exit. All would move the freeway west and either A second public informational end or alleviate the problem of traffic meeting will be held in early May. using Port Washington Rd. to get to or from the interstate. In all cases, the state would take DIGITRL TRX PREPRRRTlOtl four homes and two vacant proper SERVICE ties on Jean Nicolet Rd. near Mont- 4011 West Capitol Drive, Suite 203 claire Ave., because the plans call for Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216 . a third freeway lane to be added in Phone:(414)871-6767 each direction from Silver Spring to Bender Rd. Fast, Competent Service /? 7A 2N THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Thursday, February 14, 1985 This aerial view, looking north, shows the intersection of the North- South Freeway (1-43) and Silver Spring Dr. StillWiother idea for I--43 By Susan Westergard Replacing the 1-43 southbound of^ramp at W. Silver Spring Dr. with one at W. Bender Rd. is the latest alternative in the Wisconsin Department of Transporta tion's study .of the 1-43 interchange at public water supply for Glendale, White- Silver Spring. , fish Bay and Fox Point; A pumping Four other possibilities were presented station in Whitefish Bay's Klode Park last year by Howard, Needles, Tammen draws raw water from Lake Michigan, and Bergendoff, a Milwaukee architec Hasseldahl said, and pumps it to the plant r tural engineering and planning consult at W. Bender Rd. where it is run through ing firm hired by the state to study the a treatment process before being deliv- ; interchange. - '•••'." ered to the three municipalities. » Kenneth Graham, senior engineer at The cost of moving the water filtration HNTB-and head of the project, said the plant would be about $45 million, he said, latest alternative would eliminate con far more than the cost of building any of cerns about the first designs expressed by the new interchange proposals. homeowners living alongJ;he west bank of the Milwaukee River. "We, at this time, surely do not feel threatened," he added, "but we want to be advised of their plans." They objected to a proposed retaining wall and its effect on their view, he said. In a later interview, Graham New concerns by the North reported that HNTB has developed Shore Water Commission, however, have another design for a W. Bender Rd. off-^" taken their place. ramp that would not affect the filtration Charles Hasseldahl, manager of the plant. North Shore Water Filtration Plant, 400 He said, however, that no final decision V. Bender Rd., said a W. Bender Rd. exit has been made as to which of the five would have significant impact on the posisbilities will be implemented. filtration plant. It could wipe it off the map." "Just because (the W. Bender Rd. off- He said the DOT was at first unaware of ramp) is being considered now," he the complexity of the underground facili emphasized, "doesn't mean it is more ties at the filtration plant. favorable than the others." As Glendale Business Manager Richard Maslowski said, "It's not as pastoral as it A public informational meeting has looks." been scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 11, The plant, built in 1961-62, filters the from 4 to 8 p.m. at Nicolet High School. A public hearing will be held in 1987, after which a final decision will be made. Construction will begin in 1991, Gra- ; ham said, and will take approximately . twoj construction seasons,* from April through October. , ?0st.?i?fthe Proposals range from $13 to m THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Friday December 12, 1986 200 turnout Jar Silver Spring interchange plan would provide a southbound exit at, between the Milwaukee River and change would cost more than $20 By BILL KURTZ W. Bender Rd. instead of Silver heavily traveled N. Port Washington million. :? -y— of The Journal staff Spring, at a cost of $3 million. Rd. A third option is an urban inter Graham said the tri-level options Glendale — The State Department Dave Moliter, a project design change, where drivers would enter seemed less popular than the less of Transportation doesn't expect to engineer with the Transportation and leave Silver Spring under the costly designs with people at the start building a new interchange at Department, said, aIt's difficult to freeway. meeting. "People didn't want to cre the North-South Freeway and W. accommodate the moves in the space A fourth option is a partial clover ate that visual barrier,* he said. Gra Silver Spring Dr. until 1990, but the provided* leaf, which would have a total of six ham also said many people voiced plans already have sparked keen entrance and exit ramps. Under this concern about bringing freeway traf interest. « Four optional designs are under option, there still would be two fic into the Bender Rd. area. consideration. All the options would A public informational hearing on northbound exit ramps and two Under all four options, the wid the project drew more than 200 peo move lanes of the North-South Free northbound entrance ramps, but only way west onto property owned by ened freeway north of Silver Spring - ple to Nicolet High School Thursday. one southbound exit and one south would mean the elimination of N.%* Aerial photos of the interchange, the Bavarian Inn, 700 W. Lexington bound entrance ramp. Blvd. The options would also add two Jean Nicolet Rd. south of W. Mont- iwith the various optional plans desig The existing design is a full clo claire Ave. Jean Nicolet Rd. now nated, were shown at the hearing. lanes to the freeway from Silver verleaf, which has a total of eight Spring north to W. Bender Rd. runs north from the Silver Spring On hand were representatives of the entrance and exit ramps. interchange, between the freeway Transportation Department and of Two of the option plans would Graham estimated that the urban and the river. - Howard Needles Tammen & Bergen- create tfi-level interchanges. One, a interchange would cost about $14 Elimination of that stretch of Jean •doff, which is doing the engineering semidirectional interchange, calls for million and the modified cloverleaf Nicolet Rd. would cut off access to istudy of the interchange. placing the exit for northbound free about $15.5 million. The modified six homes south of Montclaire. The Kenneth Graham, a senior engi way traffic heading west on Silver cloverleaf would require buying and state would buy the six homes and neer with Howard Needles, said the Spring onto a third level. Another, a razing a service station and car wash raze them. ' existing interchange, built in 1956, modified diamond, provides for con at the northwest corner of Port Molitor said a public hearing had an accident rate 25% greater struction of eastbound and west Washington and Silver Spring. about the options would be held next than normal for an urban freeway bound lanes of Silver Spring at dif Any of the four options would year, possibly in March. The Trans interchange. Drivers entering the ferent levels to allow left turns require building a retaining wail portation Department will review freeway don't have enough room to without cross traffic. along the east bank of the river. public reaction and choose an option, accelerate and join the flow of traf "We're not aware of any inter . "Residents along the west bank of expected no earlier than the summer. fic, he said. And drivers leaving the change like this in the United States," the river have been concerned about Money has been set aside to buy freeway face overly tight turns, he : Graham said of the modified dia the effect on their view* Graham land, Molitor said, and the purchases said.'.- ..- . --.A;--'*>-'.>;"• • --." ' "' mond. : said. Therefore, he said a modication jtre scheduled to be negotiated in The interchange is wedged , Graham said either tri-level inter to the four options was included that ,— , , •——— —:—*r 1988 and 1989. Construction would take up to two years and begin in 1990. Five options presented It unveiled the five options to the ning on the way home from Down-1 public recently, and about 170 people town," he wrote. "We also attract Tales stress showed up during a four-hour public people traveling north from Chicago information session on the plans at and other areas on their way to ei Glendale's City Hall. ther Door County or Road America. Many of those people submitted ••' As a small business any decrease in dangers of their reactions — from which the customer volume would be detrimen above stories were taken — to the tal, and eliminating the exit ramp plans. south of Silver Spring would certain- interchange Many but not all of those who J; ly decrease my customer volume. filled out questionnaires favored the ] "I therefore would favor either the more drastic changes to the highway. ' -partial cloverleaf or the tri- level in- , ByTomTolan At least one, though, thought the | terchange proposals as they would | of The Journal Staff worst problems could be solved with > : retain the exit ramp south of Silver relatively little change: by extending { Spring." Glendale ••— Some of the entrances the northbound off-ramp in a longer Howard Needles Tammen & Bert turn so tightly onto the freeway that gendoff will hold another public \ni. there isjalmost no time to look, accel formational meeting on the plans in erate, njerge. , /May, and a public hearing in July, y North! of Bender Rd., the freeway r Construction will begin on the in comes so close to neighboring Port terchange in 1989, according to Har Washington Rd. that drivers south- vey Shebesta, director of the south bound on the Port Rd. see the head Onjccent eastern district of i the Wisconsin r lights of northbound freeway traffic \ Department of Transportation, -y. •* i and think it's coming right at them. north Truck traffic southbound on the freeway sometimes gets so heavy Northern Milwaukee County that residents along Jean Nicolet Rd., just west of it, can't carry on conver sations in their own front yards. One time, a tire flew off a south circle, to avoid a right-angled inter- r< bound truck, hurtled over the fence, ! section with the southbound lanes of hit a car parked in a driveway off Port Washington Rd., and getting rid of the service station and car wash Jean Nicolet, bounced off the car and on the northwest corner of Port and smacked into a house. Silver Spring, so the ramp could House extensively damaged merge smoothly with westbound Sil ver Spring. The tire caused extensive damage to the house. In addition, children ; Still others were concerned with were playing outside at the time. One mpre individual problems. • or more of them could have been - Qne respondent connected wiffi killed or hurt. j Those are some of the worst hor- j the Bavarian Inn and the land sur ror stories submitted recently by rounding it, southwest of the inter neighbors of the interchange at the change, complained that several of North-South Freeway and W. Silver the plans would cut off large sections Spring Dr. of the soccer fields there. Submitted in writing on question A resident of Jean Nicolet Rd. was concerned mostly that the process naire forms, those stories are part of r the process by which the state and wasn't allowed to "drag out,' and the engineering firm of Howard Nee thus prevent houses there, which dles Tammen & Bergendof f are plan might be torn down under some ver- ; ning the redesigning and reconstruc- ! sions of the plan, from being put on tion of the interchange, which has the market. been called one of the worst in the Finally, one Port Rd. businessman •'< Milwaukee area. was clear about the reason for his The engineering firm has proposed endorsement. five possible solutions to the traffic In a typewritten letter, he said the v problems of the interchange — rang northbound exit from the freeway ing from a relatively simple urban south of Silver Spring — the Silver diamond to complex tri-level inter Spring east exit — was essential to changes, i the health of businesses in the area. More hearings slated "People who live in the North Shore area use this exit in the eve- $ WltJZtdciuJUi JWW^-^ j~H-/9&r A3 JjtuUe-ll A variety of options face decision-makers lternatives for reconstructing the interchange of 1-43 and W> Silver Spring Dr. are under A> eon$iderati6n by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, The options, presented at a public meeting earlier y this month, are designed to improve safety in the area. Consultants have said the existing inter- / change has an accident rate 25 percent greater than Possible widening . normal for & similar interchange. f : Four of the options are illustrated in drawings (at of 1-43 y; right) nirhished by the engineering firm of Howard y^Needles Tammen & Ber^ndorT, consultants for the >"ym^bhangestudy» ' , : In addition td the four options shown here, : planners have come up recently with a modification » v that could be used with any of them. In the , |y itnddification^ a southbound e:xit ramp would be provided at W. Bender Rd, instead of at Silver * 'Spring. r f The Bender exit would eliminate the need for ; jbuilding & retaining wall along the east bank of the , river. The wall itt a part of all Four options. Residents y and environmentalists have expressed opposition to :/, the wall; v ',,-','- ° (; A Bender exit would add $3 million to the cost of ^ach of the.optjon^ . , ' it All of the designs would move a part of the rlkiomfr west onto property owned by the Bavarian Inn, 700 W. Lexington Blvd., and create two additional lanes between Silver Spring and Bender. A public hearing on the options is expected to be held early next year* The final decision will be made y by the department of transportation. Construction would begin in 1990 and be com pleted by 1992. fK A tri-level MODIFIED DIAMOND A tri-level SEMI-DIRECTIONAL would have eastbound and westbound INTERCHANGE would place the Silver Spring traffic traveling at diffe northbound exit for traffic heading rent levels to allow left turns without west onto Silver Spring on a third cross traffic. Cost: $22 million. level. Cost: $21 million. DRIVE. DRIVE i.W* V* -j A PARTIAL CLOVERLEAF would have two northbound entrance ramps and two northbound exit ramps, as it A so-called URBAN INTERCHANGE does now, but only one southbound would provide for entering and exiting entrance ramp and one southbound Silver Spring below the freeway. Cost: exit ramp. Cost: $15.5 million. $14 million. fouAif l^/sd> 3& >3 2//i/p f^Ju^S 3|lt|81 . ' ^Residents oppose— expressway barrier Glendale residents and environmental ists have expressed strong opposition to a proposed retaining wall along the east bank of the Milwaukee River in conjunc tion with the reconstruction of the W. Silver Spring Dr. interchange at 1-43. The Wisconsin Department of Trans portation and consulting engineering firm Howard Needles Tammen and Bergdorf contend that the intersection cannot be redesigned to federal standards without the use of a concrete wall 2-17 feet tall by 300 feet long. If federal standards are not met, federal funds may not be available for the project, the state says. Plans to widen the southbound exfrv ramp bring the ramp in line with the riverbank because of the lack of space between N. Port Washington Rd. and the river. At one point engineers even considered cantilevering the exit ramp over the river. A major local concern is that the wall would be an eyesore and would have adverse effects on wildlife in the area. Residents along W. Riverview Dr. also fear the vertical wall would force ice and water on to their property in the spring. The DOT has offered to try to soften the wall with terracing and plants. Residents claim that by eliminating - proposed distress lanes from the south bound exit ramp, it could be positioned far enough to the east to eliminate need for a retaining wall. Glendale and state officials and resi dents met recently with DOT and HNTBy engineers to. discuss the problem. The local message to engineers was a plea to relax federal standards just enough to improve the interchange without using a .-_ wall along the river. PROPOSALS to build a retaining wall near the Milwaukee River as part of the 1-43—Silver Spring Engineers continue to investigate: interchange project are of concern to neighbors in the area. Minard Johnson (above) has lived on N. design alternatives for the project, which. River Forest Dr. for 22 years. (Staff photo by Dan Johnson) is scheduled to begin in 1990. .. 'Barrier' proposed for 1-43 ramp disadvantages associated with it and it Also in attendance were representa Shore Mall would have to be straightened By Joseph Vanden Plas out. had very little support in the community," tives of Howard Needles Tammen & Graham said. Initial reactions were positive to a Bergendoff (HNTB), the firm doing the In addition, the Milwaukee County proposed "barrier" for the 1-43 soutbound Park and Ride Lot now located across Although the new design will undergo projects's engineering study, residents further examination, opponents of the off ramp at W. Silver Spring Dr. and representatives of area businesses. from Bay Shore would be moved to the The proposal, which would be part of site of the soccer field near the Bavarian retaining wall believes it is promising. the interchange at W. Silver Spring, was Whereas the retaining wall Inn. The new park and ride lot would be "There's no such thing as a perfect outlined at a meeting Monday at Glendale would have been placed along the river used by restaurant patrons during off solution but I think theyVe done a good City Hall. The barrier was-conceived in bank, the barrier would be placed approxi peak hours and the soccer field would be job," Fortis said. response to opposition to a proposed 20- mately 40 to 50 feet east of the river along moved to another location. "I think it's an interesting proposal and foot-high retaining wall. a terraced area. In contrast to the wall, A parking remedy for the Bavarian Inn hopefully the neighbors, will find it Attending the meeting were local and the barrier would be only 5-feet high. was needed because the new alignment of acceptable." state officials, including Aldermen Robert "It's more of a barrier that is commonly 1-43 would cut into the existing Bavarian The retaining wall would have been Bergen, Albert Tomson and George Jelich, seen along freeways," said Kenneth Gra parking lot by 150 feet at its furthest visible to residents who live along the State Sen. Barbara Ulichny, State Reps. ham, a senior engineer for HNTB. point. west bank of the river. They were opposed Louis Fortis and Betty Jo Nelsen, and In order to move the retaining structure A plan to move the southbound off ramp to the wall from an environmental stand representatives of the state Department off the river bank, Graham said the curve from W. Silver Spring to W. Bender Rd. point, fearing it may have an adverse of Transportation. in N. Port Washington Rd. near Bay has been dropped. "It had too many impact on vegetation on the east bank. Residents were also concerned about the wall being unsightly and susceptible to graffiti. According to Graham, the revisions Representatives of the Bavarian Inn A meeting at which DOT offi should not affect Bay Shore parking or were told that the bridge over W. Lexing cials will explain the visual impact of the cause traffic problems on N. Port ton Blvd. would be constructed to accomo barrier has been scheduled for Saturday, Washington. Flattening the curve in N. date any widening of W. Lexington, Oct. 10. Port Washington would not change the provided an expansion is necessary. Harvey Shebesta, district director of the width of the street but the median would Work on the Silver Spring bridge over DOT, said the barrier is designed to be narrowed slightly, Graham said. the Milwaukee River would begin in 1989 minimize that visual impact. He indicated « As formovingthe park and-ride lot, the at the earliest, according to transporta that it may be necessary to use new county is already looking at alternative tion officials. The design of the bridge will plantings to screen the barrier from sites because of a lack of pairing space at depend largely on the design chosen for neighbors. its lot on N. Port Washington, Graham the interchange. The DOT has no plans to remove said. However, the county has not decided The city was told last week that work on vegetation during construction. "We whether the Bavarian Inn site is appro the interchange would not begin until should be able to operate without affect priate, he acknowledged. 1992. ing vegetation on the river bed," Shebesta said. * J^e (4e^^jd '?(&¥//9&7 'idened, straightened, re every spring due to a loop in the their front doors virtually opened service road on the east; on the west, routed and re-built over the ' Milwaukee River between Henry onto the road. the service road was Jean Nicolet W!years , both Port Washing Clay and Fairmount Ave. In the Rd. (originally named W. Service ton Rd. and Interstate 43 bear little 1930s, the loop was converted into a Further width came in the Rd., later Frontage Rd.). Pheasant resemblance to their beginnings. circle with two islands located in 1970s, when the area between Bay La. became its continuation to the ! Port Washington Rd. dates back Lincoln Park. Shore Mall and Bender Rd. was north. more than 150 years. 1-43, first The new direction, combined with reconstructed. A 50-mile speed limit through the known as Highway 141, was deve dams, ended the flooding. In 1982, another widening took Nicolet, St. Eugene and Green Tree loped in the late 1950s. Slowly widened to two lanes over place between Green Tree and Good School areas brought protests from "Port* Rd., so named in the 1840s the years, paved and known later as Hope rds., specifically for the Mid- area police, Glendale City Council, \ after the town it led to, started out as Highway 141, Port Washington Rd. - way Motor Lodge, then under con residents and school bus operators, ' a narrow, rutty, dirt path just wide retained its curves for many years. struction. all of whdm felt a 40-mile limit • enough for a horse. It followed an} There was a large bend just north'of Businesses at M;he intersection- should be imposed. When the high Indian trail Silver Spring and several hairpin were unaware they would again be way opened in November 1957, y From County Line to Hampton curves between Bender and Brown interrupted in the summer of 1985 accidents took place, and demands I rds.; the road shifted around over3 . Deer rds. Until the 1950s, it was still' when the Green Tree - Daphne area increased for stoplights at intersec i the years - most noticeably between: a "country* road, tree-lined, without" was reconstructed for the Coventry tions, closing of the access at Brent \ Bender and Hampton rds. At about curbs, from Hampton Rd. north, y " of Glendale apartment-office project. wood Ave., traffic signals for the" ; the present 5900 block, near the As cars became faster, however, This widening literally brought service roads, marking of traffic Town of Milwaukee cemetery, the the road became more dangerous. the road to Green Tree Market's lanes, and the erection of school-zone road angled south, east and then doorstep and the side of Charles signs. The new highway was called west, to meet the present road in the After the construction of Lubotsky's Tire building. an "$11 million dollar death trap." 4900 block. Bay Shore Mall in 1954, a 14-foot- Untouched, so far, is the area- One month after the highway" lane addition was added to the east ... It passed in front of two homes south of Daphne to just north of opened, the governor and Glendale's built just after the Civil War that are side of Port Washington, north of Bender Rd. Today that stretch is left police chief and mayor met at the still standing, at 5384 and 5404 N. Silver Spring, to ease traffic prob to dangle between two areas of Bender Rd. intersection to survey Mohawk Rd. lems in the area. progress. v the roadway. Changes were forth At the same itme, another dirt The west side of the road was The only part of Port Rd. remain coming. road ran directly north and south, excluded from the widening due to ing essentially in the same location between Silver Spring and Hamp the homes, a tavern/restaurant and . as the earliest road is that portion , In 1958, highway lights ton, serving the 10 homes located greenhouse located on land that between Hampton and Capitol Dr. were installed at 400-foot intervals there. In 1859, for whatever reason, sloped down to the river. In 1956, Interstate 43 got its start in 1955, from Lexington Blvd. to Green Tree road supervisors abandoned the small portions of the road were when the state highway commission Rd., and lane stripes were put down curved portion for that straighter gobbled up for a new highway acquired 36 properties along the to aid traffic. route we know today, specifying the immediately to the west (now 1-43). Port Rd. between Silver Spring Dr. The same year, the expressway new road to be four rods (6& feet) In 1957, a southbound lane was and Bender Rd., condemning all bridge at Hampton Rd. was begun, wide. added to the road, north of Hampton other land needed north to County with the river level lowered to aid in \^ The new road, finally laid out in intersection, to relieve congestion. IineRd. its construction. • the early 1870s, was far short of that That same year, Port Washington The new highway, initially In the 1960s, the overpass at width, however, and had its prob- was widened from Silver Spring to named Highway 141, (Port Rd. Bender Rd. and the underpass at • lems. Swamps, creeks, springs and Henry Clay on both sides. More became County W) - had North Green Tree Rd. were built; the ravines in the area made travel* widening took place in the 1960s. Shore interchanges located only at crossroads at Dean, Calumet, Brad difficult much of the year. (It was not Finally the road met (and Capitol Dr., Glendale Ave., Silver ley, Daphne and Brentwood were by accident that the Indians had surpassed) the 1859 road supervi Spring Dr. and Brown Deer Rd. Not closed to the highway, chosen their path so carefully!) sors' request for four rods width. yet an expressway, all other roads v A few years later, steel fencing Land near Henry Clay St. flooded Businesses built prior to 1960 found crossed at intersections controlled by was installed along the highway and stop signs. 141 became a true limited-access With its two two-lane roadways expressway, renamed 1-43. ', separated by a low median strip, the At the present time, plans are in highway resembled a wide boule- the works for a major reconstruction ;. vard. of the interchange at I-4&andJ3ilver ^~ ~.Port Washington Rd. became a.y Spring./y • . v *\ • £ U>F6 M^>i^JJ & -&o-/7?& On the road again Construction paves the way By MimiBird BIG CHANGES have occurred over the years along Port Washington Rd. and 1-43. From what looks in 1955 almost like a rural scene (photo at left), the area has taken on a definitely urban look, as shown by the I-43 interchange at Silver Spring Dr. (top left), y' THE HEBAUK * [FEBRUARY 20,1986. ,_ _,-, *&£&»^&H >62^ (p psa^Pi^:-- Heavy means big business Salon, Nuts About You, and Mainstream where there are miles of open land. One By PRISCILLA AHLQREN ,. Records. of The Journal staff mile east, and you go into the lake." Crivello said it was easy to find tenants The area has experienced a fair amount for the property, and that since Suburpia of business turnover recently. - Glendale .— The intersection of Port opened a week and-a-half ago, business \ Burger King, for instance, is expected to Washington Rd. and Silver Spring Dr. nev- *• volume had been high. er has been busier, either for motorists or open a new. restaurant by the end of the . ~ Two blocks east of Port Washington Rd., year at the current site of the Iron Horse for nearby merchants whose businesses at 200-340 W. Silver Spring Dr., developer apparently are thriving. . ,. Restaurant, 5260 N. Port Washington Rd. Anthony Palermo has renovated and ex Arthur Treacher's Restaurant at 5450 N. A total of 54,500 Vehicles a day pass panded the block-long Glen-Bay Plaza. He Port Washington Rd. was replaced by Fast through the intersection, making it one of said he spent nearly $4 million to improve . Track, an automobile oil change center, in Milwaukee County's most congested, ac and nearly double the size of the develop January. Exel Inn of Milwaukee moved cording to records from the Wisconsin ment. into space long-occupied by Robert H. Gier- Department of Transportation. Tenants there include Peabody's Interi inger's Florist at 5485 N. Port Washington . x ors, the American Automobile Association, last summer. ; i - r , y •' But local merchants say motorists are Interplan Office Products and Sun Toy not just driving up and down the streets; Chinese Restaurant. Palermo said tenants Glendale Business Administrator Richard they are stopping and spending. As a result, began moving into the plaza's new building Maslowski said the movement in and out the activity inside stores and restaurants in at 200 W. Silver Spring Dr. late last year. had resulted in an upgrading of commercial the area is just as lively as that out on the . property. "We see it in terms of real estate r The building is presently 75% occupied, he '-street * : y . .., • : ,-^ said. ^ • prices," he said. "Real estate along Port Merchants say business in this business' Washington Rd. is commanding top dol Palermo also owns the 400 West Shops, lar." , . area continues to thrive partly because of .. at 400 W. Silver Spring Dr., a development what real estate developer Frank Crivello that houses professional offices and retaiP Maslowski said the heavy traffic in the calls the area's incredible demographics. stores. He estimated that 300,000 people area apparently had not hurt business. "To the north and east, you have upper lived within a five-mile radius of the two "Normally traffic is consisdered a problem, middle-class households with high disposa complexes. 1 and it certainly is for the police department ble incomes," said Crivello, a Glendale resi and the people traveling through a busy "This is the best location in town," he area," he said. "But with the traffic comes dent. "And because there is a limited area said. "Business is fantastic." . in which to work, there's not much compe high visibility." tition." , " -: i : -y-: ^: .-- Like Crivello, Palermo attributed the healthy economic picture in part to a scar . Crivello disagrees that there is a point at Crivello has just spent $750,000 to buy, city of property zoned for business that can- which traffic gets .so heavy that shoppers renovate and expand property at 5312 N. be developed in the area. will go elsewhere.; Port Washington Rd. Formerly the site of "I call this the golden mile," he said, re He argued that making it relatively easy Schaak Electronics and B. Dalton Books, to cross Port Washington Rd. at strategic the development's new tenants include ferring to Silver Spring Dr. between Port Washington Rd. and N. Lake Dr. locations has helped reduce potential prob Suburpia Submarine Sandwich, Little Cae- . lems. Well-timed traffic lights also keep sar's Pizza, Fantastic Sam's Haircutting . "It's not like the west side of town traffic flowing. , ^ , „ f~/3-/P*C> 1-43 interchange plan raises concerns ByJILLZUCKMAN of The Journal staff Glendale — The interchange at Interstate 43 and Silver Spring Dr. has been called one of the most dan gerous in the Milwaukee area, and residents at a public hearing Wednes day night said they already knew that..y ,y .y— -y>-...= r. • But some still voiced concern about suggested improvements, including a plan to completely rebuild the interchange. That work would be finished in three to four years. "We know the community demands this," said O.K. Johnson Jr., of 9410 N. Fairway Dr., Bayside, about rebuilding proposals*by the Wisconsin Department of Transpor tation. But yrtiile construction is inevita ble, Johnson said he feared it would be fatal for the Bavarian Inn, 700 W. Lexington Blvd., where he is a volun teer. The inn may lose part of its parking lot and soccer field to the highway's needs, he said. "The Bavarian Inn is an institu tion, it's a community treasure,,, he said. Johnson came to the hearing, at Nicolet High School, 6701 N. Jean Nicolet Rd., to make sure'state offi cials knew that. JoumaffStoto f * J& f The Transportation Department RECOMMENDED PLAN — The $16 million reconstruc ramp and over Silver Spring Dr. to come even witfctfhef favors a $16 million reconstruction tion plan recommended by the State Transportation westbound lane of Silver Spring Dr. The northbcgnd| plan that would include two new Department is designed to eliminate safety problems ramps for the interchange. About 100 entrance ramp would be lengthened, going froWgthel at the I-43 interchange at Silver Spring Dr. The exit people attended the hearing to watch current entrance point over Silver Spring Dr. taA43J from the northbound lanes would be lengthened to a 45-minute video detailing the con The southbound exit and entrance ramps woulc^rrrl allow more distance to slow down. The exit would split* struction options and to ask ques .. half of a diamond interchange, vfith both ramps »sduJ into two ramps, with one emptying onto N. Port tions. .:;':.: "•• .'.v:..^s: . - \v ,,,,;^n,. V, .... ally coming even with Silver SpriHg Dr. Afrontagemacf Washington Rd.. at the existing exit. The other portion - south x>f Silver Spring, Ironwoori La., would be rj%ecf of the rapipi^ouid. extend over the northbound on- _west of the southbound entrance ramp.; y & i ^ Because several ramps on and off state would close the exit ramp to safety problems required construct the freeway at Silver Spring are In July, an accident at the free eastbound Silver Spring Dr. South tion answers. But he also saidjiem^ close together and congested, the way interchange killed a Sheboygan bound freeway traffic will be able to bers of his group were worried 4ho\d Transportation Department in,about truck driver and his passenger. get off Silver Spring at Good Hope access to their businesses from^iive^ three weeks will close one exit ramp According to transportation officials, Rd., about one mile north. 260 accidents have occurred at 1-43 Spring Dr. during the construction. £ from southbound 1-43 and a frontage Also, access to the southbound road route leading to an entrance and the adjacent roads within the freeway from westbound Silver past three years — an accident rate And Erwin E. Wiese, of ^JJ^W^ ramp. The new interchange will Spring will be closed to traffic from Montclair Ave., asked why sound eliminate the congestion, planners that is 25% greater than the state N. Jean Nicolet Rd., a frontage road wide average. barriers couldn't be built while high! say. way work was done. I west of the freeway. Traffic will still William F. Dixon, president of the Harvey Shebesta, Transportation be able to enter the southbound free Department district director, said the Whitefish Bay Business andv Profes "The US Constitution guarantees" way from that ramp. sional Group, said he recognized that peace and tranquility,* he said^ \ ^UC^U^ ^^Y - l^lcdUs • %MASL*UIA "h-n^ie* YUlUv - A^^V^LA^ te-tt-aes_____ Dangerous '"%$&. interchange Work on 1-43 overpass to start in '91 Glendale — The long-delayed reconstruction of Last August, the council asked the Transporta per hour use each of the two southbound lanes on the North-South Freeway overpass at W. Silver tion Department to speed up the reconstruction of 1-43 in the area, he said. ' ^ Glendale Spring Dr. will begin in 1991 and end by about the interchange; install overhead warning devices . .$' 1994, at a cost of $16.8 million, state Transporta well in advance of the interchange; reduce the "Speed limits on the freeway aren't being W. tion Secretary Ronald R. Fiedler said Monday. 55-mph posted speed limit to 50 mph from W. observed now. And introducing a lower speed lim)t But the state will not go along with recommen Henry Clay St. south of the interchange to W. on a relatively short section of freeway wouldJbg ITSILVES R SPRING OR. dations by the Glendale Common Council to take Bender Rd. on the north; and ask the Milwaukee ineffective," Shebesta said. ^Different speed liihijs \VJ_ interim steps to prevent more accidents at the County Sheriff's Department to strictly enforce at different places cause traffic accidents." %& Silver Spring W. LEXINGTON interchange, Fiedler said at a council meeting. the reduced limit in and around the interchange. interchange Z | BLVD. He said it was difficult to enforce the current: g [j/Vhitefish Fiedler also said work on the Silver Spring bridge over the Milwaukee River was scheduled to Fiedler and Harvey Shebesta, district director speed limit because there was no place for sheriff begin in 1990 and would cost $3.4 million. of the Department of Transportation for southeast deputies to pull anyone over to issue a ticket. fi| ern Wisconsin, said the reconstruction project had y|lr The interchange on Interstate 43 often is been delayed as-a result of required planning and Mayor Norbert J. Hynek said, "I personally a^r, described as one of the most dangerous in the land acquisitions. Officials said reconstruction was disappointed that the safety features aren$t vieweg Milwaukee area. State records show that the first proposed about 15 years ago. ^ as being practical or advisahle. If we can't warn accident rate there is 20% to 25% higher than at a people and we can-t-lower die traffic and we canjl; typical urban freeway interchange. Shebesta said the department would not install enforce the speed limits, we're doing nothing.J| The overpass was the site of a crash July 29 the warning devices because commuters on the doesn't really sound right." $&. rjOUWN AL/ -*%i heavily traveled interstate would ignore them. z I GrSphic% that killed two people when a southbound semi A public hearing on the reconstruction of thi| trailer truck flipped over the outside guard rail and interchange is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 ifi; fell 20 feet into traffic on Silver Spring. In peak morning hours, an average 2,250 cars the auditorium of Nicolet Hi$t School. -M ROADS are ribbons when seen from the air. N. Port Washington Rd. (at left) is a major traffic carrier north of W. Bender Rd. (Aerial photo by Jack Plale) J&U, Hesi^td 4-/7-/9*7 3$ 15 Tuesday, November 29,1988 •] OKs plan ramps Freeway ramp bound exit ramp carrying freeway ByJOHNHIRSH traffic onto the eastbound lanes of of The Journal staff Silver Spring. That ramp will now Glendale — The Glendale Com remain open. closes Jan. 9 | mon Council voted 4-0 Monday to As with the earlier plan, access to endorse a new plan by the Wisconsin the southbound lanes of the freeway Department of Transportation for the from N. Jean Nicolet Rd., a frontage Silver Spring Dr. freeway Inter road west of the freeway, will be in Glendale I change. closed. The new plan calls for the closing The closings will take effect next By ANNE BOTHWELL month. The exact date has yet to be of the entrance ramp that loops from of The Journal staff the westbound lanes of Silver Spring determined, according to Glendale onto the southbound lanes of the Mayor Norbert J. Hynek. Glendale — If you use the W. Silver Spring "JDr. North-South Freeway (1-43). Hynek noted that drivers would interchange on the North-South Freeway to drive down A plan approved earlier this be able to enter the southbound lanes town, you will have to change your routine, beginning month would have closed the south- of the freeway via an entrance ramp Jan. 9. i from the eastbound lanes of Silver The City of Glendale, concerned about the safety of Spring Dr. There also is an entrance the interchange, had asked the Department of Trans ramp on Hampton Ave., about a mile portation to create some temporary safety measures. The SHver Spring south of Silver Spring. measures had been set to go into effect in December, %ut Earlier this month, Harvey She were delayed partly because of negotiations with White- Interchange besta, district director for the fish Bay officials and business representatives, said Har Department of Transportation, said vey Shebesta, district director of the department. the department would close the exit Here's what to expect: ramp from the southbound freeway The southbound oh-ramp to the North-South Freeway lanes to Silver Spring Dr. But that from westbound Silver Spring Dr. will be closed ;for announcement brought protests from automobile traffic. Buses will be allowed to use the ran: North Shore business leaders. They which will be blocked off by a gate. Bus drivers will bv called Shebesta to object, saying that given a key to the gate. The gate may not be in place by workers, residents and shoppers Jan. 9, but police will be enforcing the closure, depart would lose access to Glendale and ment of ficials said. ,:* Whitefish Bay, Hynek said. During morning rush hour, more than 500 cars an Hynek said he and Shebesta dis hour use this ramp, but now drivers will have to find cussed the new plan early last week another way to get downtown. There will be signs with local business leaders and with pointing the way to the W. Hampton Ave. on-ramp to]the F> Patrick Matthews, Whitefish Bay southbound lanes of the North-South Freeway, but offi village president, and Michael C. cials ask commuters not to chose this alternative during Harrigan, Whitefish Bay village man the morning rush* About 700 cars an hour already use;the ager. Hampton Ave. on-ramp during peak times, and there isn't The Transportation Department room for more, said department of if icials. > has proposed a $16 million recon Other freeway on-ramps at W. Green Bay Rd., N/9th struction of the freeway interchange, St., W. Keefe Ave. and W. Locust St. can be used, >but which is considered one of the most transportation officials warn that they too, may' be dangerous in the Milwaukee area. An congested in the morning. > accident there in July killed a truck Also, drivers will not be able to enter or exit Jean driver and his passenger. Nicolet Rd. from Silver Spring Dr. The road, which runs parallel to the freeway, will be barricaded to dfeter through traffic. Drivers must take Bender Rd., north of Silver Spring Dr., to get to Jean Nicolet Rd. * The ramp from eastbound Silver Spring Dr« to south bound lanes of the North-South Freeway will rehiain open. So, come the hew year, how do you get downtown? If you drive, officials recommend taking a continuous local ^ "Our basic concern is with the safety of traffic, on. the north-south street, like Oakland Ave., Green Bay Ave., ramps, and between the ramps and the local system," Lake Dr. or Port Washington Rd. I The ramp closings are a temporary measure] to .Hynek said. •••i decrease traffic flow through the area, said Norbeijt J. ' If the new plan turns out to be too burdensome, Hynek, Glendale's mayor; Hynek said he called for safet Glendale will be willing to look at new alternatives, measures for the off-ramp after a July traffic accideiit a Hynek said. J the interchange left two dead. The mayor said he rriade "If closing the ramp is unsatisfactory, it's nothing that several suggestions to the department, such as reducing cannot be changed," he said. ;* the speed limit through the interchange from 55 mph to However, the ramp closings are likely to stay in effect 50, and putting up overhead signs to warn driver$ of until the- interchange is rebuilt, Shebesta said, that upcoming congestion. But he said he was satisfied with construction is scheduled to begin in 1990. •'.'••« the department's plan^ ' * 3'-t 'sJnrfWr the or the second time since they 9* located in Glendale, the , ttotal of six entrance and exit ramps/ Jr.—#•* ^r^s^r^-.-^^^jjW^ FUnited Bavarian Societies and "There would be two northbound (Continued from page 3) parking, we need every inch of that [ their Bavarian Inn face major [entrance ramps,- two northbound the commuter parking lot nearby. place," he said. At those times, he I changes caused by road construc- exit, ramps, one , southbound 'r "Not only will (the Bavarian Inn) . said, the soccer practice field is j tion. - 'v *'*-*•- - > • yy I entrance ramp and one southbound have a free' parking lot in off-use already used for parking. . y y J In.. 1958, highway construction" entrance ramp. :;?^ 4:: f hours, its restaurant and bar will Also, future Park-N-Ride use is j split their 20-acre property into two At the south end, 1-43 would be [•benefit from the 100-plus cars which unknown, he said. He speculated ! parts. The clubhouse, at 5423 N. widened starting^ at a point some park there daily as well as the that it could one day be*filled to Port Washington Road, was separ where between Lexington Boulevard Freeway Flyer users who are capacity and commuter parking ated from Old Heidelberg Park, on L and the railroad trestle, according to J attending Milwaukee Brewers or could spill over into the Bavarian the river, y ; - y y - ; - jL DOT project design engineer Dave 1 GreenBay Packers games at County Inn property. : The widening of Port Washington Molotir. •> * ~ •-. - 'A><.&\. f Stadium," Nedwek wrote in a March; v He also expressed concern that the Road to six lanes soon followed,* * 2 letter to the Herald. lot could bring crime to the site. bringing the road closer to the A related proposal would relocate He noted that the Bavarian Inn ! clubhouse entrance. „ . -,~ the Milwaukee County Transit k Members of the United will not receive the full parcel that I "The situation put a district hard- Park-N-Ride from its present loca Bavarian Socities don't see it that has been offered as an exchange for jship on the societies," said Anton tion on North Port Washington way, however. the loss of existing Bavarian Inn Road, across from Bay Shore Mall, to Moser said DOT plans show a j Moser of Brookfield, president of property. .,.-.. ..« -:v r_;, ^ *T,;:?V Deutsches Land, the land-holding soccer fields south of the clubhouse. -redesigned 1-43 cutting a diagonal ~ "We will be getting what is left," he -> Under the interchange" plan, the > path into the Bavarian Inn propery. corporation that is part of the United "? v / said. . ,. „ ' -^-.y-\;----^T£ Bavarian Societies. "There was no/ state would replace the soccer field It would be 260 feet west ^>n the i . that would be used for parking'with \ north end of their land and 50 feet But probably the biggest west on the south end, he said. concern, Hoepfher said, is having an room left for parking or expansion. fa * piece of property north of the "Well be coming out short any interstate in the Bavarian Inn's [ We were left with only two options — [Bavarian Inn that was acquired in, way you shake it," said Peter Hoepf- front yard. - ' : : relocate or move the clubhouse." *". [fall 1988 for use in the 1-43 inter : ner of Wauwatosa, a member of the "The movement of the expressway The societies opted for building a change project. T group's 1-43 relocation negotiating at a new elevation totally concerns new clubhouse west of the highway I According to DOT design committee. "What we hope to do is us," he said. "We lose the more The Bavarian Waldhaus Inn was negotiate for something we can live private setting, a place where par I opened at 700 W. Lexington Blvd. in [engineer Roger Sikorski, the west with." ward movement of the interstate ents bring children to play and run 1968. Sixteen of the original 20 acres The societies formed the commit freely. y ' are still intact. . -. _< would take out about 100 parking : spaces in the Bavarian Inn lot (not, tee in April 1985 to develop an "The interstate will be right on top" approach to the interstate expan of us." ' Now the proposed redesign including the Park-N-Ride). By sion. | of the Silver Spring Drive inter- allowing the inn to use the Park-N- A fear that the construction pro-~ ! change at Interstate 43 is threaten- [ Ride lot in the evenings, on Hoepfher acknowledged that the ject will affect the public business at | ing the Bavarian Inn once again. [weekends and holidays for addi Park-N-Ride lot would give his the restaurant is another worry. j Under all four design options tional parking and giving them part group a paved, lighted and main Said Moser: "Any major business i being considered for the inter- of the acquired parcel, the state tained parking lot, but said the lot interruption may upset the frail ! change, the distance from the club- 1 would not increase the parking balance on which our societies are considers it an even swap, he said. capacity on the site. ~ I house entrance to the interstate Sixth District Alderman Thomas 1 founded," Moser said. fWe cannot ' would be cut approximately in half.; W. Nedwek has said the Bavarian - "When we have special events, continue to lose land and sustain f The option favored by the Wiscon fJnn stands to benefit from having Oktoberfest and international soccer business losses without it taking its sin Department of Transportation games, we have such an overflow of toll." — Sandra Whitehead. - — - ; involves a partial cloverleaf with a Glendale' '^t^"i%'^ •JW&v Offidals upset; state wants for i >,%•&, .&«*±uU l/nfo» Glendale — City officials have Traffic found a number of nasty and ex pensive surprises in the State De partment of Transportation's plan for the Interstate 43/Silver Spring Ramp at Silver Spring, Dr, interchange, and they want state officials to know they are not 1-43 to reopen Tuesday happy about it. ( The Common Council voted ny to prepare Silver Spring Dr, for Monday to have the city attorney ;W^ has kept \ the installation of new under draft a detailed resolution objecting fhe southbound entrance ground power lines. The work is to required alterations that would expected to start next February. cost about $300,000. That is mon closed since Sept. 5 ey that city officials say they can't The entire Silver Spring Dr. in spend next year when the project is terchange is scheduled to be rede due to begin. Journal staff signed during 1991 and 1992. Mayor Norbert J. Hynek said v y '^ ~+* > li • j The southbound entrance ramp In other traffic matters, W. Transportation Department offi i to Interstate 43 at Silver Spring Dr. cials had given the city the impres Green Tree Rd, between N. Green ; in Glendale should be open in time Bay Ave. and N. Range Line Rd. in sion they would just have to "move for rush hour traffic Tuesday y a few fire hydrants" at a cost closer Glendale is expected to be repaved morning, according to Michael and open to full traffic in 10 days to $100,000. Hart, a supervisor of underground Not included in the $300,000 to two weeks, according to Pavid construction for \Visconsin Electric { Weis, Glendale city engineer. figure is the cost of moving the Power Co. North Shore Water Commission's Green Tree will be widened from water transmission mains that 26 to 38 feet, including curbs and cross under thef freeway north of I About 10,000 vehicles a day use gutters. The road width is mea j tft£ ramp, primarily to go to down- sured to the back of the curbs. ',' Bender Rd., Surprise request that ! town Milwaukee, said Neil Wien- ser, a planning supervisor with the In Fox Point, the Santa Monica ; city officials estimate could cost Blvd. bridge, located in the 6700 about $1.2 million. About half of State Department of Transporta tion, The entrance,ramp at Silver ; block of N, Santa Monica Blvd., is that cost would have to be paid by expected to be open by the end of Glendale, the rest divided between^ Spring turns into a third south bound freeway lane. the week, according to Noreen * Fox Point and Whitefish Bay. fc Cook, village manager. The bridge The mains carry water fromf was supposed to be open last Fri- Lake Michigan to the water filtra* > The ramp has been closed since , day, but some of the paving work tion plant on Jean Nicolet Rd.j " Sept. 5 to allow the electric compa was delayed. ( which supplies municipal water to the three communities. 1; !; 'THE UMBILICAL CORD' j "That's the umbilical cord,"j City Administrator Richard E.l; Maslowski said. About 50,000 resi-| dents are served by the system, hel said, and there would be serious] problems finding an alternate waterf supply for the period while the mains were being moved. I The, Transportation Depart-* ment would not allow the mains to| stay where they are because theyf would run laterally under the new| route of the freeway rather than* merely crossing under it, Maslows^ kisaid. l.jHU.-iOH'U.IWHU ^ v'.x#"'# ••'W&'A-''-. ^:p:' "T--^.- y / Mid-June Id-August v Glenda , • Const j) of the southbound roaoV *1P v^ yt-,v way south of Lexington. j, • Southbound 1-43 traffic south of Lexing ton will be shifted to the northbound lanes; ; (two 11-fbot lanes without shoulders, separat-•; I-43/Sihlf Spfing Dr.1 ed by a concrete barrier.) v- MUytugust to Late November £". • ^Remaining segments of the proposed - south roadway will be constructed. • * work schedule unveiled • Southbound 1-43 traffic will be shifted to the outside shoulder and outside lane of the ; - ttere~is expected to be little new southbound roadway. Northbound; 1-43- The $20 million project * delay on die freeway, says project traffic will remain in the outside shoulder or manager Ken Graharti of Howard , lane of the existing northbound road (two will affect traffic at the 11-fbot lanes, without shoulders in each direct Needles Tammen & Bergendoff. 'tion.) - • "t interchange through '92 Two lanes in each direction will be • ' - '•• ••"..' • - A' open at all times. Graham said Late November 1991 to Early April 1992 By BEfEr?^ENHAUER> :^5 y traffic may slow between May and August when northbound and • Southbound 1-43 traffic will use the new of Tne Journal qtaff ^J southbound roadway (three 12-fbot lanes with southbound traffic between Silver shoulders). Northbound traffic will continue to Glendale — Project managers Spring and Bender will be tunneled- *\ use the existing northbound 1-43. ^ have released a construction sched Construction on the northbound" section into what currently are the north : will begin in April 1992, with completion. ule for the first year of work on the ^ scheduledfor Novembe r of that year. ~ ~f~ - < I-43/Silver Spring Dr. interchange bound lanes and shoulders. ' y project, which will begin in the "That's when you will have ;tfre spring and continue through 1992. most constriction," Graham saig. ^ The project is expected to cost Here is an outline of the cpn^ more than $20*miflion. It will re struction schedule: . Jx place existing entrance and exit ramps at the interchange and re Early April to mid-May 1991: +£$ place the existing freeway with W Construction of median crossover? Local share of moving pipe north of Silver Spring. v A^^ld: three-lane roadways between Bend m Northbound and southbound 1-43 traffic er Rd. on the north and the Chica will be shifted to outside lanes and shoulders go and North Western Railroad north of Silver Spring. (Two U-fbot lanes less than original estimate overpass on the south. without shoulders in each direction.) • Ramp closings: The northbound en Whitefish Bay's share of moving a Harrigan said the new cost of moving One permanent change will be trance north of Silver Spring the southbound water main under Interstate 43 will the water main is significantly less than the closing of the northbound 1-43 exit to westbound Silver Spring; the south amount to about $13,000, or 31 percent of the first estimate of the project, which was entrance located north of Silver bound entrance from eastbound Silver Spring.; the $42,000 total cost, Village Manager a fixed percentage of the total cost of the Spring Dr. on Port Washington Mid-May to mid-August :A 5 Michael Harrigan said last week. project, which is estimated to cost more Rd. The" only entrance ramp to • Construction of the southbound road way, between Lexington Blvd. and Bender.yy The water main, a part of the North than $1 million. . northbound 1-43 in the vicinity will • Southbound 1-43 traffic between Silver Shore Water Commission, must be moved be the existing one south of Silver Spring and Bender will be shifted to the current; when work begins in April 1991 on a major Harrigan also said the new bill has an Spring. That ramp will be replaced northbound lanes (two 11-fbot lanes in e$*r reconstruction of the 1-43—Silver Spring advantage to the village in being a fixed by a new one at about the same direction, separated by a concrete barrier).*;. interchange. amount rather than a percentage which location in the second year of the M Ramp closings: Alt southbound entranc The water main carries Lake Michigan es and exits, through late November 1991* ;** could change. project. y Mid-May to Mid-June T y water from an intake facility at Klode From mid-May* all southbound • Construction of median crossovers, Park to the commission's water treatment He also said the village would not have entrance and exit ramps at Silver. plant at 400 W. Bender Road, just west of to pay for the project and then seek south of Lexington." ' -- ^A_-i' 1-43. reimbursement. Under the new arrange Spring will.be closed. Drivers will • Northbound and southbound 1-43 traffic have to use ramps at either Hamp- south of Lexington will be shifted to outsitfe The North Shore Water Commission ment, the state will contract for the work ton Ave., one mile south of Silver lanes and shoulders, y ,' * serves Whitefish Bay, Fox Point and and the commission will pay for the Spring, or Good Hope Rd., two Glendale. project as the work proceeds. WB miles to the north. J&jt&P to-45-Wo 7k^> go THE BUSINESS JOURNAL WEEK OF OCTOBER 15, 1990 Freeway project puts Bavarian Inn on hunt for soccer site By CHRIS FORAN The relocation of the Interstate 43/West doing is looking at a number of alterna ing at the potential for a new, state-of-the- city planning director. "If there's some way Silver Spring Drive interchange could send tives. If they were to stay there, we would art soccer facility that has the access and to fit them into the Menomonee Valley, we the Bavarian Inn and its soccer complex assemble to their property...(several) sur central location strengths of the Glendale think that would be compatible with what looking for a new home — possibly one in plus tracts." operation. Suburban sites in New Berlin we would like to see in the valley." the Menomonee River Valley. But the tight squeeze that would result and Germantown are being considered, but Such a project also might fit into Milwau In the $20 million freeway project, set to could make it too difficult for the Bavarian sources said at least two Menomonee Val kee County's longstanding plans to build its begin in spring 1991, the state Department Inn and its tenants, which include Mar ley locations — the former state prison site own soccer stadium. Two years ago, the county set aside of Transportation plans to shift 1-43 to the quette University's soccer team, to operate. just west of the site proposed for the Mil west, acquiring in the process the eastern 3 waukee Brewers' new stadium and the Air $170,000 for the planning of a soccer stadi "The question is how much upheaval is um, but problems in signing leases with Mar acres of the Bavarian Inn's Glendale com that going to cause us," said O.K. line Yard owned by CMC Heartland Part plex, located on 15 acres immediately west ners near the 27th Street viaduct — are be quette and University of Wisconsin-Milwau Johnson, senior vice president of Milwau kee, pegged as the two major users of the of the freeway at 700 W. Lexington Blvd. kee Western Bank and chairman of the Ba ing considered. By slicing off part of the Bavarian Inn's While noting that the group's pursuit of a proposed facility, and the fiscal turmoil sur varian Inn committee exploring the impact rounding county government put that ven parking lot and soccer fields, the DOT of the freeway project. "We're prepared to Menomonee Valley home was preliminary at plan, spurred by traffic congestion and ac best, city and county officials said they were ture on the sidelines. A project involving the work with them as quickly as they do with Bavarian Inn, however, might bring the cess problems near West Silver Spring us...(but) we're facing a great deal of dis- eager to work with the Bavarian Inn, partic Drive, has forced the inn's owners to ex ularly if such a project would kick off devel county's involvement in a soccer stadium combobulation in the next six months." back into play, said M. Brigid Sullivan, di plore other options, including expansion to Johnson said it was premature to talk opment of a sprawling soccer complex. the north of their existing site as well as po "We would like to have the Bavarians in rector of the county's Parks, Recreation & about any definite course of action that the Culture Department. tential locations in Germantown, New Ber Bavarian Inn would take. In the end, he the city of Milwaukee," said Thomas Miller, lin and the Menomonee River Valley in said, the 1,000 to 1,200 members of the Milwaukee. ethnic and sports societies that own and Lexington Blvd., followed by off- Talks between representatives of Bavar operate the facility will make the ultimate ramps, barrier walls and, finally, ian Inn, a group of five German ethnic so decision, and they probably would prefer By DAVID THOME weather permitting, the south cieties and several sports associations, and staying put at the Glendale location if it's of The Journal staff bound on-ramps. DOT over the impact of the freeway relo at all possible. While 60 degrees is ideal, pav cation project have stretched more than But Bavarian Inn officials also are look Glendale — If the weather holds five years. But the state's final plan report out, the new southbound lanes of ing can continue as long as the edly wasn't presented to the societies' nego Interstate 43 at Silver Spring Drive temperature remains above 36 be could be finished by Thanksgiving, cause cement can be mixed with tiating team until late last week, sending hot water and kept warm with in them scrambling to firm up alternatives be Friday November 15199? *"' state Department of Transporta tion officials say. sulated blankets while it dries, fore contracts are let on the project next Rutzen said. .•*•? February. Paving began late last month, Cement mixed or poured at too "The possibility of movement of the en Glendale and by last week the new lanes had cold a temperature is likely to crack tire operation is certainly a consideration," been finished from W. Bender when it becomes concrete, Rutzen said Hugh Braun, a Milwaukee attorney Road to just north of Silver Spring. said. representing Deutsches Land Inc., the com However, unseasonably cold Construction of the southbound pany that owns the Bavarian Inn's current South lanes weather and record lows recently lanes was delayed several weeks site. made it impossible to continue, last spring when the Bavarian Inn Jim Machnik, real estate manager for said Dick Rutzen, construction sued the Transportation Depart DOT's southeastern Wisconsin district, de ofI-43may chief for the project ment over not having been includ ed in a plan for relocating business clined to comment on details of the offer to The freeway will be widened to Bavarian Inn. But he acknowledged that es and residences displaced by the three lanes to Bender Road early Project the state already has put together several be done soon next spring instead of this year as parcels to the north of the inn's site to re The lawsuit was settled out of Weather has become originally planned, Rutzen said. court when the department agreed place the acreage lost to the freeway reloca to give the Bavarian Inn some land tion. factor in how much Rutzen said the department and increase the amov ' would "We're awart y're in a very tight situ planned to first pave the main traf pay for taking part of a xr field ation," he said. "What we're going to be other work gets done fic lanes ftom Silver Spring to W. and parking lot >- ** -* fl* I J**-*t **-^.»-^-«.,- t.^ Study up: Construction hurdles outlined By Sandra Whitehead will remain closeduntil late fall 1991, when the new southbound on- and off-ramps will open. Facing two years of construction on the I-43-Silver Spring interchange, many North Shore residents will During construction in 1991, a temporary want to change their driving routes to avoid delays. traffic signal will be installed at the southbound on- I Representatives from the Wisconsin Department of ramp at West Hampton Avenue." "We expect traffic to Transportation and Howard Needles Tammen & increase at that location while the Silver Spring ramps [BergendofF, consultants for the project, met with the are closed," Graham explained. ^ Glendale Business Council this month to let them know - A traffic light will be installed in fall 1991 at the Silver what to expect. i Spring ramps because of expected traffic levels, he Construction on the interchange will begin in March added. 1991. The project is scheduled for completion in fall 1992. Signs will be posted directing traffic so motorists will The project is designed to improve traffic patterns and be able to find their way to local businesses and be decrease the safety risks. Studies have shown the warned about ramp closings, Graham said. - interchange has an accident rate 25 percent higher than During construction, southbound traffic will have to the average urban interchange. exit on Good Hope Road and drive south on North Port The work will begin with the reconstruction of two Washington Road or North Green Bay Road to get to. bridges over the Milwaukee River on West Silver Spring Silver Spring Drive, he added. Drive . While construction work is being done on the Construction on 1-43 over West Lexington Boulevard southern bridge, one lane of traffic in each direction will will take place over a two-year period. "One lane in each be open on the northern bridge. When the southern direction will be open on Lexington during construction bridge is completed, traffic will be moved there while the except during very restricted periods when it will be northern bridge is reconstructed. closed for safety reasons," Graham said. Closures would last for 30 minutes or less and local residents would be In general, officials say, through traffic on notified in advance, Graham said. Increases in traffic on Green Bay and Port Washing 1-43 should see little difference during the construction ton roads are expected during construction becausxe period. Access on the on- and off-ramps is expected to be motorists will have to drive to Hampton Avenue to go the problem. southbound on the freeway. During construction, two lanes of traffic on t-43 in each direction will be open except at night, when it may A traffic planning committee made up of be decreased to one open lane in each direction. local residents, members of the local business commun The project will not reduce the physical capacity for ity, Glendale representatives and DOT and HNTB traffic on the freeway but construction activities will traffic engineers have been meeting since July to cause delays by creating visual barriers," said Ken develop a traffic control plan for the project. Graham, a senior engineer at Howard Needles Tammen Bob Pfeiffer, DOT district chief design engineer, said, &BergendofT. "The traffic committee will continue to meet during DOT Design Engineer Dave Molitor added, "We have construction to react to any problems that arise. We will no real diversion of traffic here. The problems for move to correct them as soon as possible." A planner's map shows the remodeled interchange at motorists will center around ramp closures and access." DOT officials also promised local residents would be Interstate 43 and West Silver Spring Drive, Glendale. It will The northbound on-ramp north of Silver Spring Drive provided with the telephone number of the project feature a cloverleaf exit ramp on what is now a car wash - will close in mid-April 1991 and will remain closed until engineer. The project engineer will be at the site during and service station east of 1-43 and north of Silver Spring the project is completed in fall 1992. construction and will be able to address the public's Drive. The freeway will be widened to three driving lanes in The southbound on- and off-ramps on the west side of concerns more quickly than DOT personnel at the each direction between West Bender Road and the railroad 1-43 near the bridges will be closed in March 1991 and district office in Waukesha, they said. trestle south of West Lexington Boulevard. ^4© JEp I Thursday December 13, 1990 Bavarian Inn The issues of whether to erty owner the full compensation s'- the law will perrniC Machnik said. relocate, how much will Johnson agreed th,at the area land use was an issue. 1-43 work begins be paid are unsettled z . "The legal principle is called By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS V. 'unity of use,'" he said. "We have of The Journal staff - used adjacent land for a number of plus land costs, to relocate the com by five ethnic organizations, which years — 15 or 20 years. It is a plex to another site, Johnson said. have continued to meet and con Glendale — The Bavarian Inn matter of identifying that but for "We're talking about big chunks duct events there. ;; will not give the State Department the highway, we would in all proba of money here " he said. "Looking The Bavarian Inn's facility-is bility get to continue using that at those numbers, just to accom of Transportation the rightt o prop u assessed at $1,577,000 for 1990 &x erty in Glendale until the issue of land." •: : modate the taxpayers of the state, it purposes, according to the Glen relocation expense is settled. Johnson said an appraisal for would probably be incumbent on dale assessor's office. That includes The department plans to ac the inn had indicated its land us to stay in Glendale if at all $1.3 million for the land and quire 3.4 acres of the Bavarian/ would be worth $3 million on the possible" $277,000 for buildings and im Inn's 15-acre site to expand Inter market if "vacant and available." Bavarian Inn officers have said provements. Property in Glendale state 43, The inn is adjacent to 1-43 -j It would cost an estimated $2.6 they would need time to relocate is assessed at an average of 86%<^f 1 at 700 W. Lexington Ave! raillion _ plus land acquisition the restaurant and meeting rooms, fair market value, putting the possi- J The Transportation Depart costs — to reconstruct parking and parking and soccer fields. Should a We value at close to $1.8 million. ment has offered $700,000 for soccer fields. It could cost between move be necessary, possible loca The $25 million freewayprojec t j $7 million and $8 million, again tions include sites in Germantown, includes improvements from the )'j New Berlin and Milwaukee's Me railroad bridge north of Hampton { J acreage needed for roadway, but nomonee Valley area. Any decision ! the amount does not cover the with actual construction projected Ave. to Bender Rd The projSa j to start in May. on where to buy and build will would add a driving lane for both, j financial impact to the Bavarian depend on the final settlement with f Inn, said O.K. Johnson Jr., chair-. "We aren't going to accommo northbound and southbound traffic j r man of the restaurant's Relocation date them until a transaction has the state, Johnson said. and emergency stopping lanes, ajd j r Committee. The portion of the been written or the courts tell us we The inn was established in 1943 would alter freeway ramps. ^ v .1 j tract needed for the 1-43 expansion have to do so," Johnson said. "The I includes much of the inn's soccer Bavarians will not permit the com fields and parking arm " mencement of construction." The issue of fair compensation "Relocation isn't just [moving is complicated by the fact that the from] a building," Johnson said "If Bavarian Inn now has use of adja ! they take away our soccer fields cent land it does not own for a part ! and parking, it takes us out of the of its soccer field and parking building. We have been trying for needs, said James A. Machnik, five years to get the DOT to under Transportation Department real es stand we need advance notice." tate manager. Attorneys for the Construction bids on the $25 state are now researching whether million freeway project are sched any compensation may be offered uled to be let in February. Prepara for such a loss. tion work would begin soon after, "This department will do what ever we can to reimburse the prop Bavarian Inn iiiaf lie Seed Mffive Expansion of 1-43 could take the inn's soccer fields and'part of its parking By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS of The Journal staff * Glendale — The Bavarian Inn could move, possibly „ as soon as next>year, as a result of State Department of ^Transportation plans to acquire a portion of the inn's land for freeway expansion. ^ The Interstate 43 project is scheduled to start this oring. Bids will be let on the project in February, with |paration work to begin soon after to allow construc- fiworkinMay. ttfficials with the Transportation Department and ^Bavarian Inn are expected to meet Thursday to ftinue negotiations. The inn, which can be seen from4 \ freeway, is at 700 W. Lexington Ave. J In the meantime, the search for another site for the Bavarian Inn is continuing, said O.K. Johnson, chair man of the inn's relocation committee. Several sites in Germantown and New Berlin, as well as Menomonee Valley land proposed by the City of Milwaukee, are being studied. "I'd say relocation is a very real possibility^" John son said - v e*f5°Ject is expected to cost a number of years and a number of soccer group, a singing society, a | The Bavarian Inn, which is run by a coalition of ^our$25 million, 90% to be pSd reasons. We're plagued with apply- > social group and two .dance groups ! ethnic organizations and sporting clubs representing with federal money and 10% with ing rules and regulations, and have —joined forces in 1943 to develop 1,200 members, now has a total of 15 acres. The state \ state money. : •:?, to take into account other people's | the existing site. plans to acquire about 3.4 acres, according to the latest ] ^Bavarian Inn officers said Tues interests, too." *.. A estimate by transportation officials. day that they still were not sure The amount of land to be acquired would vary from j exactly how much land the state Complications include what ac GERMANTOWN INTERESTED quisition costs should be, and how 45 feet at the southern portion of the site to 310 feet at r planned to acquire. r One of those interested in help- the northern end, said Dave Molitor, design supervisor to provide right of way to other "In fact, we know just as much property owners in the area, includ ! ing those groups find their new site with the department's southeastern district office. now, to be frank, as we did three j is Howard Farrell, president and "That totally destroys our soccer fields and a good years ago, except that they want to ing Wisconsin "Electric, Machnik F said i owner of Germantown Market _ share_of our parking," Johnson said "Without soccer -A ™ °rc and more land,""Moser Place Inc. Farrell said talks were ^"It'Ts reallya frustmthig situa- _, The Bavarian Inn is looking for , continuing on the possible sale of and parking, we ain't in business, to coin a phrase. It's | a site with at least 20 acres and tip to 40 acres of land north and very critical to us." James A: Machnik, real estate possibly as many as 30 acres, acr west of his new Pick 'n Save Ware A decision likely will be made within the next manager with the Department of cording to its officers. It would house Foods store in Germantown. month, "simply because the DOT wants to start mov Transportation, said he could un need to replace its current facilities, "The main thing is it all ties in ing dirt," he said \ - j derstand the frustration. which include a restaurant and with what we're trying to do in SOCCER FIELDS A CONCERN ^~ s "We're frustrated, too,- he said meeting space, three soccer fields, a Germantown," he said, citing the Of particular concern is findinga n appropriate place This project has been delayed for park and pavilion area and other village's effort to promote German to develop soccer fields, which normally ^uireatle^t outdoor buildings. cultural activities and architectural 4> one growing season to be ready for play, said Anton Five ethnic organizations —- a styles. MosfrTa club officer. "There's no way we can relocate before they start there," he said hi > M wj^*- , y0^^'f^-9!f«S ^^^r ^'^f^ is/rib picgic ; 3t>y~ Sandrcr^~^^a mitefeeadur*.u<*)*j*«i#r * Ij ^^Six home^i4s just south of wher^ e the x ¥ sl y6beeBrazed inake f about;-/living, on th e: edge of the One way toimiss the showdown/is ; ^ay for the new freeway. Those I construction fcone; ^ ; ---y '' :/ to get out of town. And thaiVJust | families received compensation and y , *The air is full of dust. You can't, what Glendale residents Robert and relocation assistance from the state. cut your grass. Everywhere youlook Marilyn Yauck have decided to do. The Yaucks only wish they could; there are pipes, pilings,,ripped up The Yaucks will retreat this week have been BO lucky. / s ^; _ : ground. Children can't play outside. from the front lines of £43 construc T&eir home was not one There is a lot of vibration and tion to a Brown Deer condominium^: of those scheduled for demolition— pounding- The doors and windows leaving their home of 16 years a point that occupied much of rattle. When the/re drive piling, flfs ? behind , A - *V; vX V - ': Robert Yauck*s tame and enerf^ fir really horrible. " ; And not a moinent too soar*, the past two years. Yauck has / *I think everybody in this block Robert Yauck said. After experienc- written numerous letters to state ought to be compensated for what -, \{ mg two months^f what promises to.* ^flBdata, even Gkm Tommy Tfenhp- they have to go through * he said. \ be a two- tottoee^ear^mammoth ^^ ^fcisg the stateto purchaseMs But Yauck is ready to leave . construction project, the Yaucks say \ home m it m the others. But his , t the fighting to someone else,/There they already havedstayedtoc^lmg. ^r-~T ^ *T« •'"' *"~\ ^^r-vV5 ^ is nothing to pursue anymore/ he fa an interview las* t wee]3t , Yauck S pleas have fenen oh deaf ears:; ;; So, the Yauks are sellings their said./,,; /// ,... A ,:>, ,, >' '-* ls described life on the edge of this //He's relieved that the touse has/- summer^tT, ^ s_ larges_ __t highwao y construcrf home themselves — for about I 1ZLtion projec*^w^STit in thUe Milwaukeiunftw»»kee area. : $10,000 to $15,000 less that what it's .been sold, but Yauck resents having ; The patb of the new freeway cuts J worth, Yauk believes/The three-bed-, sell it for less than he thinks it's across the south eastern corner of room ranch &ome, with a family worth: \,> — * , -, V " ! his lot at 6069 N. Jean Nicolet Boad. room, living room, dining room, eat- * But Eobert and Marilyn Yauck After Bving In the same in kitchen, an elaborate recreation won't miss being there for the next years, the Yaucks decided to put/ Construction began on tKe room in the basement and large lot two construction seasons. And the / their home on the market It sold for $25 million project in April. It is;| recently sold for about $90,000, trauma of living on the ed%e of i&e at least $10,000 less that* market:? . scheduled for completion in fall 1992^ Yauck said. construction zone is one memory the; ' lvalue. -** \--W, ^v\ / > The project is huge. "Six lanes are' "Who would buy it?" neighbor couple would rather live without^ ^^^A^A&&^»*^ , being constructed plus 700,000 cubic Margaret Jacobs wondered. The yards of earth wip be brougfet;|a to f freeway will practically sit, in the bring the project up to grader home's front lawn. ,/ > ,:y #kW^ 6-/3-/??/ Ken Graham, a senior en* Actually, three couples were vying working on the project, The entire for the place* Yauck said. "When the I project involvesthe reconstruction of] pri^ has to be cut so much {because \ 11 bridges. '* - '> : , ^"^' of*" th"e freeway)," ' it" 'i s' a goo% d' dea' ~~~'*l * he | The freeway/will be widened/to r;said/ A. -.. ' ' ' ''A -., ',; : three lanes in each direction frtjanj The new residents, who will^move A&& railroad trestle near l^e^dngton fin the day after the Yaucks leaved / ^ulevard at the projects southern: | work iii construction, Yauck said* ; end to just south of the trestle a£ Maybe the# will be more used to tibe j' Bender Road to the north. Bull 10* I constant dust and noise; -/''?/v ''yl:i, 1 foot shoulders will be constructed ori I Tliel^ doiftJaink both sides, BOT:en^eei^;sat3/'' '-yq they.couldlever &kmk*>ms M front of the Yaucks' home, a ? j new water line to tbe North Shore ,TEt s^,pure, [Water Commission's water plant is ;;bemgput in the ground andv an I ad^tional lane in each direction will -b i-;^,built. A.-> / * „~A^~r'A* -* ~^ A^, - - > -/ /-fa^ad G-13-/99/ Hampton interchange to be studied With the Estabrook Corporate Park on current partial interchange or if the Port Washington Road near Hampton traffic will warrant a new interchange at Avenue now under construction, city Hampton Avenue. One possibility would officials are hoping the center will bring be to add a southbound exit and a more business to Glendale. northbound entrance to 1-43 at Hampton However, increased business activity Ave. means increased traffic flow. And with the Glendale City Administrator Richard area already log-jammed due to construc Maslowski emphasizes that the plans are tion on 1-43 and Silver Spring Road, there long term and will be subjected to public is concern as to what effect increased hearings both in and out of Glendale. traffic flow will have on the Hampton Maslowski said that right now neither the Interchange. City of Glendale nor the Department of With this in mind, the city of Glendale Transportation has the money to put any and the state Department of Transporta plans into effect. tion plan to be ready before the traffic becomes a problem. A study is planned to Work on the Silver Spring Interchange determine if there is a need to improve the is expected to be completed by 1993. Road work will begin on Hampton Monday By Sandra Whitehead Adjustments will be made to markings on the ramp to allow two lanes of cars to As 1-43 freeway reconstruction enter the ramp. They will be given an approaches, construction on some peri extended area in which to merge into one phery roads will begin next week. lane, Ingwersen said. On the freeway, Wisconsin Department of Transporta southbound traffic will be confined to the tion Project Supervisor Chuck Ingwersen left lanes, giving cars entering the free said work will begin at the southbound way an open lane. on-ramp at Hampton Avenue Monday. Southbound traffic on North Port Temporary signals have already been Washington Road will choose between installed there. three lanes north of the Hampton Avenue Adjustments are planned for the intersection. The left lane will be for intersection of Hampton Avenue and traffic turning left or going straight. The North Port Washington Road and the center lane will be directed to the ramp southbound 1-43 ramp from Hampton to and the far right lane will be directed west accommodate the additional traffic on Hampton Avenue. expected there during the upcoming two An overhead sign north of the intersec years of construction. tion will direct southbound traffic on The closing of southbound on-ramps North Port Washington Road to choose north of Hampton Avenue to Good Hope the appropriate lane. Road will result in heavier use of the Traffic headed west on Hampton Hampton Avenue ramp, Ingwersen said. Avenue will be able to turn left onto the A triangular median on the west side of on-ramp or continue west on Hampton. North Port Washington Road at Hampton Traffic signals will coordinate the flow of Avenue that separates southbound cars traffic. However, some drivers will headed turning west on to Hampton Avenue will west on Hampton Avenue will have to be narrowed to allow two lanes of traffic to wait to allow southbound traffic to get on turn right, he said. the ramp, Ingwersen said. The far right lane will be only for those The improved intersection and on-ramp cars going west on Hampton Avenue. The will probably not be in operation until left lane will be directed to the south- April 8 when construction on the freeway (. bound 1-43 on-ramp. begins, he added. m . /m (Pcux^ eft- A***fi y *J ^^^ Jf*^? #W U)&+L- Af*d_ aS ^^^ °1 y^K AcAX(. A^' /^:L ^O^AAIU, <^c /Ate ^ X-Y3 A -ru^L- <-_s>- & yo/qo Silver Spring Dr. Pollution threat interchange relays road work Park-ride lot * Car wash North-South Freeway affected W. SILVER ^ SPRING PR By JEFF BENTOFF Sentinel staff writer the Interchange project, was to be » Glendale — Rebuilding the North- done this year, with the rest of the Service South freeway interchange at W. project to be rebuilt in 1991 and stations Silver Spring Dr. and a nearby bridge 1992. Because of the testing, all the will start a year later than planned work will take place in 1991 and because 22 sites in the area may be 1992, Fries said. contaminated, officials said Monday. Reconstruction of the 1-43 inter The $20 million project was to change, considered one of the most have begun this spring but has been dangerous in the Milwaukee area, Kopp's Frozen pushed back to the spring of 1991 to also includes reconfiguration of I Custard allow for environmental tests at nine southbound on-ramps and off-ramps Sentinel graphic of the sites, said Deborah R. Fries, a spokeswoman for the State Depart and will result in relocation of the • Every 500 feet along N. Port ment of Transportation's District 2. freeway slightly to the west from W. Washington Rd. from W. Silver Fries said tests would be conduct Lexington Blvd. to Bay Shore Shop Spring Dr. to the end of Bay Shore fl 5^WM<^ ping Center. Mall. The mall has had underground / ^fo dix^AXju ed within a few weeks at the loca storage tanks and may have once/ "*T****> * tions, which include the site of Union The 22 potentially contaminated 76 Self Service & Food Mart at 5615 sites were identified in a $10,000: been a landfill site. - —** N. Port Washington Rd. and a study of past land uses of parcels *Land on the east side of the Scrub-A-Dub Car Wash at 5615-A N. near N. Port Washington Rd. be North-South Freeway behind Kopp's Port Washington Rd. tween W. Henry Clay St. and W. Frozen Custard Stand, 5373 N. Port ts already done at the car wash Bender Rd. Washington Rd., which may have , been a landfill site. M>1SU~ mnd petroleum contamination, Gonia said such studies have been /ently from old underground conducted for state freeway projects •Three service stations at the in storage tanks, at the center of the in the past few years because of tersection of N. Port Washington Rd. ' concerns over protecting the envi and W. Silver Spring Dr. parcel in groundwater and in soil 6 ronment and employees and possible •A soccer field northwest of the feet to 11 feet below the surface, said liability in acquiring contaminated Bavarian Inn, 700 W. Lexington Michael P. Gonia, district environ properties. Blvd., which may have been a land mental design supervisor. Gonia said he was not surprised by fill. Fries said Union 76 agreed to pay Water samples also will be taken for . the cleanup, estimated to cost the number of potentially contami $100,000 to $300,000. nated sites because they are In an urban area that has or has had gas from three places near W. Silver The company wants other tests to stations, landfills and nurseries. Spring Dr. where ground water determine whether contamination flows out of the river bank. Tests may have been from other sources, He said the sites for the first phase there several years ago showed sub of the tests, which will cost up to stances from landfills, Gonia said. .. Fries said. $145,000, are: A spokesman for the company _ Discharge from a storm sewer on could not be reached for comment. • A freeway right-of-way on the the rivers west side and sediments southwest corner of W. Bender and from the bottom of the river also will Other tests will include soil testing N. Port Washington Rds., where 1 be tested, he said; . along the border of N. Port Washing ground water from a gas station on ton Rd. and Bay Shore Shopping the northeast corner flows. Center at 5900 N. Port Washington Rd., Fries said. •The south edge of a park-and- rlde lot on the west side of N. Port The testing, considered the most Washington Rd. north of W. Silver comprehensive for any state freeway Spring Dr. The lot was the site of a project in District 2, will postpone nursery and greenhouse. Fertilizers replacement of the W. Silver Spring from such facilities can cause con- Dr. bridge over the Milwaukee River just west of the interchange. tamination. 0 "he bridge replacement, part of ^*AM*Ms 4? m [f it v,an, Bavarian inn wants to By Sandra Whitehead I Members of the United Bavarian Societies would like the Bavarian Inn to stay right where it is. So would many i North Shore residents. [, The Bavarian Inn, 700 W. Lexington I Blvd., on the west side of 1-43, may be forced to move by the reconstruction of I- 143 that will begin this spring, said O.K. I Johnson Jr., a Bayside resident and chairman of the societies' Relocation | Committee. The inn and its surrounding | soccer fields serve as the center of I activities for the coalition of German ethnic and sports clubs. Many North Shore youth participate in the Bavarian societies' soccer clubs. Local businesses and organizations hold picnics ! in the adjacent Heidelberg Park and use j the clubhouse for meetings. Many more [North Shore residents have hoisted a 1 stein at the annual Oktoberfest or fre quent the inn's Friday night fish fry. j;. When 1-43 is rebuilt, the distance from the inn to the interstate will be cut approximately in half, DOT engineers The United Bavarian Societies built the Bavarian Waidhaus inn in 1968. (File photo) : have said. The westward movement of the r interstate will take about 3.4 acres of the Bavarian Inn's 15-acre site (about 100 could rebuild where we are for about $2.6 games, he said. It currently has the use of been offered sites bigger than we have parking spaces in the Bavarian Inn million.'' seven fields: two on its own property and now." j parking lot and half a soccer field). The state acquired the so-called Gierin five on WEBCO and DOT land. Nevertheless, the Bavarians want to stay, he said. "We love being in Glendale. j The reconstruction of the interchange is ger property, a 4-acre parcel north of the Bavarian Inn owners do not yet know if planned to correct safety problems and .inn, in 1988 for use in the 1-43 interchange The Bavarians have had a superb rela the necessary land will be available to tionship with the city of Glendale over the deteriorated conditions. The interchange project. The construction of the interstate them, Moser said. has had an accident rate 25 percent will take half of that property, DOT years. They have been terrific in every The leadership of the Bavarian societies way." I higher than the average urban inter- engineers say. In addition to the state- has not negotiated for residential proper ] change. In July 1988, two people were owned property, the operators of the It will be less costly to taxpay Bavarian Inn "are hopeful the southerly ties to the south on Edgewater Lane, ers to keep us where we are, he added. F killed in an accident there. Johnson said. "Anything could be a Construction bids for the project will be portion of Wisconsin Electric Power Com Johnson estimates the cost of relocating pany's property would be available. It's on possibility in the future but so far that the inn to be about $7 or $8 million plus taken in February. Construction is sche property hasn't been considered," he said. duled to begin in May, DOT engineers say. the table," Johnson said. land acquisition costs, compared to $2.6 "We need some of WEBCO's land and According to Johnson, other communi million plus land acquisition costs to - "We would like to stay where the Gieringer property to make it work," ties have been actively courting the rebuild at its current site. we are and use additional land the said Anton Moser, president of Deutsches Bavarian societies. "Germantown literally "We know DOT didn't just fall out of a Department of Transportation has to the Land, the societies' land-holding corpora rolled out the red carpet. In exactly, the Christmas tree. They would probably north of our property," Johnson said. If tion. The Bavarian Inn needs at least two same way, the city of Milwaukee and New prefer to work with us to get the lower the DOT would be totally cooperative, we soccer fields, one for practice and one for Berlin have courted us," he said. "We have • '.,-•• (Continued on page 13) fi/e^&P /£-00-/?? (^^HMJI /K ***??$>*#* o Bavarian Inn Glendale frv—a. ,.*,-m, (Continued from page 12) costs for taxpayers," Johnson said. \ The DOT has offered $700,000 for land Bavarian Inn sues state over land for 1-43 needed for the interstate but that doesn't cover the cost to rebuild where they are or By DAVID THOME mittee. The state wants to award ficials claim the Transportation* relocate, Johnson said. DOT chief district of The Journal staff contracts for the $25 rniUion proj Department violated state law by real estate agent James Machnik said the ect by Feb. 19 so work can begin in not including the inn in a reloca department intends to reimburse the Glendale — The Bavarian Inn's May. tion plan for displaced property property owners the full compensation the effort to stop the State Department The Transportation Depart owners. law will permit. of Transportation from turning its ment hass offered to pay $1.3 mil Not only do the Bavarian societies want parking lot and soccer field into lion for the land west of the free James Machnik, the depart to keep their inn in the North Shore, part of 1-43 has moved to the way and east of the inn. Johnson ment's real estate manager, said residents there want them to stay, John courts. said rebuilding the soccer field and Wednesday that the Transporta son said. "We have had calls from people A lawsuit filedthi s week in Mil parking lots would cost $2.6 mil tion Department acquired a parcel throughout the North Shore encouraging waukee County Circuit Court seeks lion and relocating the inn's of land adjacent to the inn for us to stay. The Bavarian Inn has become to bar the department from taking 23,700-square-foot banquet hall,, $650,000 for a soccer field and an integral part of the North Shore. Many about 3.5 acres of the inn's land at festival hall and Old Heidelberg offered to allow the inn to use part players on our soccer teams are from the of a right of way for parking. Ba surrounding communities. Companies 700 W. Lexington Blvd. for widen Park would cost as much as $8 ing and improving the freeway at million varian Inn officials never respond here use our park for picnics. ed, he said. "We also assume the city would prefer the Silver Spring Dr. exit The law The inn has been at its Lexing to have the Bavarian Inn and its green suit claims the loss of land would ton Blvd. location since 1943. Five The department will argue in space there than a commercial-industrial spell economic ruin for the inn. ethnic organizations meet and con court that the inn's "dollar de complex. We are an asset to our neighbor, "Our hope is that this is not just duct events there. Faculties on the mands are not supportable in the -Manpower. Because of our low density a procedural ploy, but that we'd be 15-acre site along the Milwaukee business of buying private property use, we can augment Manpower's facility able to get together with DOT by River also are rented out for ban for public purposes," Machnik by providing additional parking during Feb. 19," said OJC Johnson, chair quets and picnics. said. He said he did not expect the the day and providing a nice open area." man of the inn's Relocation Com In the lawsuit, Bavarian Inn of lawsuit to delay construction. The Bavarian Inn property is zoned as an office/service/business area. If the inn relocated, it would still be possible to use the land for recreation, City Administrator Richard Maslowski said. " Although the Glendale officials have not actively lobbied to keep them, "We are confident they would help us if we asked them," Johnson added. "We haven't felt it was necessary to go to the city." The city told DOT officials it wants the inn to stay, Maslowski said. "We have informed DOT of the city's preference to retain the Bavarian Inn as a viable entity in our community. "Unlike other communities, we don't have available land to offer them." l4.-Xo~/e)c/0 Nev design disclosed i-43/Silver Spring project for interchange project Delay in Bavarian Inn smc unspecified amount of time, Maslowski Plan would affect said. "It might be two days, a week or two. won't impede preparation It would leave 500,000 people, industries and businesses without water. That is Judge r^noves himself a different judge. wjateiLCpmi ' unacceptable." Robert Packee, director of de Although the city of Milwaukee serves iSy Sandra Whitenead from case because he partment's southeastern Wisconsin as a backup emergency water supply for district, said Monday's develop Which; would area residents rather the three communities, Maslowski said it talked with plaintiffs ments would not have an immedi have? A new highway interchange or does not have the capacity to maintain ate effect on the project, although it water? regular water services for the entire area By DAVID THOME put the awarding of a contract for Water, says Glendale City Administra affected. of The Journal staff the biggest portion of the work in tor Richard Maslowski, who is also a The water line was built to stay put, limbo. The department originally member of the North Shore Water Com Maslowski said. The 30- inch concrete Glendale — A delay in the Ba- pipe is reinforced by another concrete pipe planned to award the contract last mission. The water utility serves Glen | varian Inn's lawsuit against the Friday, but held off because of the dale, Whitefish Bay and Fox Point. around it. Both pipes are enclosed in a state Department of Transporta concrete box culvert, he said. The water lawsuit. The issue is not hypothetical. When tion won't slow preUrninary work Until the department decides Maslowski got a look last week at the intake line winds from the lake at Klode Park, Whitefish Bay, through Bay Shore on the I-43/Silver Spring Dr. inter-, what to do about awarding a con state Department of Transportation's change, a state'official says, r ' latest design for the reconstruction of the Mall, between Sears and Goodyear, up I- tract, all other work will go on as 43 along North Jean Nicolet Road to the The suit seeks to prevent the planned, Packee said. 1-43 Silver Spring Interchange and heard Department of Transportation it would require relocation of the main water plant. Preliminary electrical work at water line through the North Shore, his "The North Shore Water Commission from taking part of the inn's park Good Hope and Brown Deer Rds. response was, "We will not be moved." has taken the position that we will not- ing lot and soccer fields at 700 W. was to be completed Tuesday so Maslowski is meeting with DOT rep move the line. The water service is more Lexington Blvd. for a $25 million that southbound entrance ramps at resentatives this week to see if there is critical than the new interchange," freeway widening and ramp recon both interchanges could reopen any alternative that would allow the Maslowski said. struction project. Wednesday, Packee said. - * water line to remain. "We will not move regardless of any Milwaukee County Circuit The outside northbound lane The reconstruction of the interchange is DOT ruling until we know exactly what Judge William Shaughnessy re was to be closed from Bender to being planned because of concerns over impact it will have on our communities moved himself from the case Mon Good Hope Rds. on Wednesday, safety. The interchange has had an and are satisfied they are reasonable." day because of a lengthy conversa and entrance and exit ramps on the accident rate 25 percent higher than the In this week's meeting with the DOT tion he'd had with a member of the north side of Silver Spring Dr. were average urban interchange. In July 1988, utility supervisor, the construction super inn's Relocation Committee about to be closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.rn. two people were killed in an accident visor and consulting engineers, the state's attempt to take the land. Wednesday and Thursday. there. ' Maslowski said, "We want to find out Shaughnessy said he spoke with exactly what their plans are, the impacts Other lane and ramp closures Unlike designs shown to Glendale committee member Harold See- might be necessary as crews re officials last year, the new design extends they will have and make sure they are mann in December, more than a reconstruction north beyond Bender Road aware of the impacts to our communities." move lights from the median and month before the Bavarian Inn install temporary^ hghting at the to the railroad tracks north of the North Glendale Mayor Norbert J. Hynek said filed its lawsuit. Shore Water Commission's water plant. the legality of requiring relocation of the side of the freeway, Department of DOT engineering regulations do not water line should be questioned. The The case was to be reassigned to Transportation officials said. allow the water line to remain because it North Shore Water Commission acquired would run underneath the freeway, an easement for it that the state cannot Maslowski said. ^ _ easily revoke, he said. Maslowski said a private contractor has In addition to potential costs to the Jkc&o estimated the relocation of the water line North Shore Water Commission, the city 0 would cost between $1.2 and $1.3 million. of Glendale has estimated it would pay i.li.iiy The members of the North Shore Water about $300,000 for relocating water Commission — Glendale, Fox Point and mains, fire hydrants, storm sewers and Whitefish Bay — would have to foot the sprinkler systems. An obviously dis bill. Glendale, whose percentage of owner traught Maslowski said, "The fiscal ship is 48 percent, would have to pay most impacts related to our utilities are critical of trie cost. and serious impacts on Glendale. That's In addition to the costs, the relocation why we have demanded an emergency <* would mean shutting off the water for an meeting with DOT." •'.... Road work season gets early start as I-43/Silver Spring job begins By DAVID THOME that we've had in quite some time," FEB. 27-FEB. 28: The entrance ;< of The Journal staff she said. "They'll be working right and exit ramps on the north side of next to live traffic." Silver Spring Dr. will be closed ^-/99/ l£ Glendale — Commuters, the en- About 80,000 cars pass through from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. • ^durance test begins. the interchange every day, and any H{.,•;. Reconstruction of the Interstate accidents or breakdovftns during MARCH 4-SEPTEMBER: The Sil- |43/Silver Spring Dr; interchange construction will cause serious traf * ver Spring bridge will be restricted; 3'began Monday when crews re- fic problems, Fries said. to one eastbound and one west ^moved light poles from the medi- The $25 million project will in bound lane. ^an, the first sure sign that the high- clude work during the 1991 con ||way construction season is just struction season on a third south- APRIL 8-NOVEMBER: NO perma-; Ifdown the road. bound highway lane and nent lane closures. Temporary lane H This week, lanes will be closed ; emergency stopping lanes, plus closures during off-peak hours will ^when' necessary during non-peak changes in the entrance and exit be posted. There will be two re Ihours, roughly 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and •* ramps. The eastbound and west duced-width lanes in both direc W p.m. to 6 a.m., said Deborah bound bridges over the Milwaukee tions from W. Lexington Blvd. to PFries, public information officer River on Silver Spring Dr., west of Bender Rd., with traffic crossing' j|with tjie State Department of the interchange, also will be rebuilt over from northbound to south Transportation. this year; Fries said. bound sides of the freeway. The Motorists can expect to endure Plans call for adding new north southbound entrance and exit Jthe first major impact of the two bound lanes and emergency stop- ramps at Silver Spring will be -year project starting Feb. 25, when v. ping lanes for 1-43 in 1992. closed. |the southbound entrance ramps at Fries gave the following outline The schedule depends on •Good Hope and Brown Deer Rds. for lane closures at the interchange: whether a dispute between the Jwill be closed for a week. > MONDAY-MARCH 1: Crews will . Transportation Department and H Reconstruction of the freeway start removing electrical poles from the Bavarian Inn in Glendale can planes will begin on April 8 and last' the median and installing tempo be resolved in time for bids to be pinto November. The Transporta- rary lights at the sides of the free requested, a contract awarded and jftion Department plans to keep four way. Lane and ramp closures will construction to begin by April 8, planes of traffic open during morn- be posted. Fries said. The inn at 700 W. lex- ping and afternoon rush hours. , FEB. 25-FEB. 26: Southbound ington Blvd. has filed a lawsuit entrance ramps from Good Hope I SPEED LIMIT WILL STAY THE SAME seeking to prevent the department Rd. and Brown Deer Rd. will be from acquiring part of the inn's The Transportation Depart- I closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The 4and for the project. Jjment does not plan to lower the outside southbound lane will be ^current 55 mph speed limit on that closed from Brown Deer Rd. to The inn's attorney, Hugh Braun, ^stretch of 1-43 during construction, Bender Rd., possibly on Feb. 25, has filed a rriotion for an immedj- • ft but Fries strongly urged drivers to definitely on Feb. 26. ate trial. The motion is to be heard ^slowdown. . -V FEB. 27: The outside nprth- by Milwaukee County Circuit j* "It's going to be one of fbe riound lane will be closed from Judge William Shaughnessy on ^tightest zones for road work safety Bender Rd. to Good Hope Rd. Feb. 25. <5)~ Bavarian Inn, state told to leave each other alone saying that losing the land would $1.3 miUion. When the inn re The inn has hired an engineer to James Machnik, the department's, Judge grants injunctions put them out of business. The state turned the check, the department figure out how the remaining 11.4 real estate manager. 2 J sought by both sides calls the inn's claim nonsense and deposited it with the Milwaukee acres at the current location could Machnik said the $1.3 million wants to get on with its $25 million County Clerk of Courts in the inn's be used. "What he's found is that the department offered to the inn in fight over 1-43 work freeway project. behalf. it's impossible for us to have both was more than enough to buy the Milwaukee County Circuit What inn representatives hope parking and a championship soccer parcel, which is still available. -^ By DAVID THOME Judge Michael Barron on Wednes to prove in a trial set for March 11 field," Johnson said. Donald W. Smith, the assistant of The Journal staff day granted injunctions sought by is that losing roughly a quarter of attorney general representing the both sides. The Department of the inn's site will make it impossi x NEARBY PROPERTY Transportation Department, sairj Glendale — For the time being, Transportation was given the right ble to stay in business. the state is eager to commence with the Bavarian Inn and the state De to occupy the land, but the inn was If successful in proving their What the Transportation De the freeway project because a delay partment of Transportation are assured that nothing will be done case, they will regain ownership of partment hopes to prove is that of just one month would cost $1.15 supposed to leave each other alone. to it. the 3.5 acres and force the Trans losing the land won't break the inn. million. ^Z Since 1985, the two parties have "If somebody comes in to sur portation Department to come up A brief submitted by the depart been exchanging words -— face-to- vey, the Bavarians can't kick him with a plan, and the money, for the ment says three independent ap Some work already has begun face, over the phone, by mail and off," Barron explained after inn to relocate.4 praisals, including one the inn paid on the project, which will wider! through their attorneys — while Wednesday's hearing. "On the oth The inn has a banquet hail, a for, support that thinking. 1-43 from Lexington Blvd. to Bend the inn' sought to keep its soccer er hand, the state can't do anything restaurant, an outdoor festival site er Rd., improve entrance and ex| fields and parking lot separate from to the land." . known as Old Heidelberg Park, a All the inn had to do to avoid ramps, replace- the Silver Spring the state's plan to widen and im tournament-size soccer field and the current mess, the department Dr. bridges over the Milwaukee prove the dangerous I-43/Silver STATE LAW five smaller soccer fields at 700 W. says, was to buy a neighboring par River and move Ironwood La. sev Spring Dr. interchange. Under state law, the Transporta Lexington Blvd. Relocating all that cel of land. The department ac eral hundred feet west. However Last month, the inn refused the tion Department took ownership of could cost in excess of $10 million, quired the parcel for $550,000 last no contract has been awarded fa Transportation Department's $1.3 the disputed land Feb. 8 when it said O.K. Johnson, chairman of the year and was willing to sell part of the biggest portion of the work million offer for 3.5 acres of land, sent the Bavarian Inn a check for inn's relocation committee. it to the inn at a fair price, said which is scheduled to begin April 8 Barron did not rule on whether losing the land CircUiC Court woulTkill the inn's business and tas^su>n^dxd not "I take no delight in winning today," said OK. guarantee that the inn would get th£8 mdhono $10 Johnson chairman of the inn's relocation committee million its representatives say they need to relocate , I just hope that this will cause the [Transportation Ruling on inn delays The Bavarian Inn, 700 W. Uxington Blvd. has a Department] to take a different view as we go back to banquet hall, restaurant, an outdoor festival tedg the negotiating table." 1-43 interchange work Km as Old Heidelberg Park a tournament-size He^said he hoped that the inn and the Transporta- soccer field and five smaller soccer fields. tion Department would be able to negotiate a settle- By DAVID THOME ! ment that would be fair to both sides. " of The Journal staff The Transportation Department had made a $13 "I don't want these people to get the false impres million offer to the inn on Feb. 8, which was rejected." • sion that winning this case means they'll keep then- James Machnik, department real estate manager Glendale — Reconstruction of the Silver Spring land," Barron said Thursday after the three-day trial said pursday's decision "severely set back the sched- interchange on Interstate 43 was put off indefirntely ended. ule for work on the interchange. Work was to begin Thursday when Circuit Judge Michael J. Barron decid Barron said state law required the Bavarian Inn to i April 8, and the state was ready to award an $11 ed that the Bavarian Inn should have been included in be included in a relocation plan because even though ; million contract for the major portion of the project a plan for relocating families and businesses displaced the Transportation Department wouldn't take all of its Machnik said. r !?. by the project. property, the inn would be required to move some of State Transportation Department officials said the its personal property, such as the bleachers at its Bavarian Inn was not included because the freeway tournament-size soccer field. project would require taking only Vh acres of the inn's Property owners generally have limited rights in 15 acres. Bavarian Inn representatives argued that condemnation cases, but the Transportation Depart losing the land would put them out of business. ment did not adequately followed all procedures re quired by state law regarding the condemnation of the Bavarian Inn land, Barron said Glendale -5=- I-43/Silver Spring work on again State to work around ing that the department erred by the ruling doesn't force us to delay cause the southbound exit ramp; not including the Bavarian Inn in a the project, just to add the Bavari was closed and work was being! Bavarian Inn property plan for relocating homes and busi- an Inn to the relocation plan," done even though signs near--the! nesses, the state agency said it Machnik said. interchange say the project was de-j while it resolves dispute would postpone the biggest part of O.K. Johnson., chairman of the layed. Preliminary work on the; the $25 million project until next Bavarian Inn's Relocation Com freeway and the reconstruction of I By DAVID THOME year. mittee, said he was unaware of the two Silver Spring Dr. bridges over j of The Journal staff The Bavarian Inn, a group of department's plan to reinstate the the Milwaukee River have contin ethnic clubs that maintains a res project for this year. ued as planned. Glendale — The stop-and-go taurant, festival site and soccer "I don't have any idea how that The department also considered plan to rebuild the Silver Spring fields at 700 W. Lexington Blvd., would be feasible," Johnson said. the effect a delay would have on Dr. interchange at Interstate 43 ap sued the Department of Transpor "All we want from DOT is recogni Glendale street and utility con parently has the green light again. tation over the plan to take part of tion of our needs. They haven't yet struction and the hazards of in Complaints from businesses, the inn's property. told us how we're supposed to con creased traffic on streets in Glen motorists and two North Shore Bavarian Inn representatives tinue if they take three-fourths of dale and Whitefish Bay, Machnik communities led the state Depart said that losing part of the land our parking lot and destroy our said. ment of Transportation to decide would put them out of business. soccer field. If they have a way to He said the contractor, Mann to go ahead with the project by The Transportation Department resolve this, my committee and I Brothers Inc. of Elkhorn, has devel working around 3Vi acres of land offered the inn $1.3 million on will sit down with them today." oped a plan for working on the owned by the Bavarian Inn until Feb. 8. Inn officials rejected that, SEEK TIMELY COMPLETION freeway until the department the land comes under the state's saying they would need $8 million acquires the land. So far, the delay control to $ 10 rnillion to relocate. Machnik said that attorneys rep hasn't increased the cost of the "Eventually, we're going to own resenting Glendale and Whitefish project, Machnik said. that property, so we've decided to Machnik said Transportation Bay businesses have asked the de go ahead with the work as Department officials originally partment to complete the project Meanwhile, the department was planned," said James Machnik, the thought they could not proceed on schedule to rrmiimize its nega to begin its appeal of Barron's rul transportation department's real with the project until after the Ba tive economic impact, and that die ing Wednesday afternoon by ask estate manager. "Simultaneously, varian Inn was added to the reloca department had received calls from ing the judge to reverse his deci my office will be starting the con tion plan, which could take several frustrated commuters who regular sion. Machnik said the results of demnation process over." months. ly used or passed through the inter the hearing would not affect the Last week, in the wake of Cir "After reviewing the decision change. department's plan to go ahead with cuit Judge Michael J. Barron's rul further, our attorneys have told us Drivers have been confused be the project. (J 3-47-/19/ Smith said at Wednesday's Glendale James Machnik, real estate hearing that while the department manager for the T™^g believed Barron's decision was in Department, had said Tuesday'that correct, it had complied with his Court decision on inn the department planned to go ruling by adding the Bavarian Inn yidjuA* ^dvSth the project wh^simul. to the relocation plan. taneously clearing up details ot The new plan, approved by the Sndernrlation^pro^dures involv state Department of Industry, La delaying 1-43 project ing yh acres of land owned by the bor and Human Relations, offered to reimburse the Bavarian Inn for 3 -c?^ /9f/ Those were the words ot a state the expense of moving its parking Contrary to statement Department of Transportation offi attorney general representing the lot, soccer fieldan d bleachers from by state official, cial after Milwaukee County Cir SpSeSt, said Wednesday that 3V2 acres the Transportation De cuit Judge Michael J. Barron said partment needs to complete the work is still on hold he would not immediately decide freeway project, Smith said. whether to reverse his earner deci although such a plan was discussed, Hugh Braun, an attorney for the By DAVID THOME sion that has halted reconstruction inn, argued that the Transportation of the Interstate 43/Silver Spring it was never authorized. of The Journal staff Barron ruled on March 14 that Department's response to Barron's Dr. interchange. the Transportation Department ruling was inadequate because the Glendale — "Another red light" This means that, for now, con I could not pVoceed with work on &e ruling was meant to force the de struction on the roadway and ramp £Sange until the Bavarian Inn partment to recognize that losing is on hold, contrary to what The SdbSf included in a plan for the land would put the Bavarian Journal previously was told and relocating businesses and homes Inn out of business. The Bavarian reported. displaced by the project Inn is a group of ethnic clubs thai operate a restaurant, a festival site and soccer fieldsa t 700 W. Lexing ton Blvd., Glendale. Glendale Council OKs night work on interchange imposed by the state Department they can get this done faster and get over not having been included m already hear out there," Kobbervij Residents willing to put of Transportation and Glendale, it it over with,'" Aid. Albert Tomson the Transportation Department's said. up with noise to get would take his firm up to 12 weeks said. plan for relocating businesses and He said the Transportation De to remove existing concrete divid Aid. Ray Gripentrog, whose dis residences displaced by the project partment had told him that nois project back on schedule ers on 1-43 between Silver Spring trict encompasses most of the proj pushed the starting date back a levels at the site averaged about 7( Dr. and Bender Rd. and put up ect said he was concerned about month. decibels during the day and 1\ new ones to reroute traffic through noise. "I live where the work is Without the delay, the dividers decibels at night — a little loude the construction zone. being done now, and I can hear the would have been removed and traf than "normal traffic," but quiete: Lanes have to be closed to cre hammer come down constantly," fic rerouted before Memorial Day, than "rock music," a subway, thun Glendale — The Common ate enough space for workers to do he said. Kobbervig said. Work on the Silver der or a jet plane taking off, accord Council hopes it has saved a few their jobs, but Transportation De Earlier Monday, The Journal in Spring bridges over the Milwaukee ing to the 1991 World Almanac. / weeks and a few winks in a single partment rules prohibit lane clo terviewed residents along River River, a related project, began on 120-decibel sound is painful, thi stroke. sures for all but five hours of each Forest Dr. and Park Rd., some of schedule in March. Almanac says. The council voted Monday to work day, Kobbervig said. If al whom live right next to the con To rninimize noise at night, tfc , allow work on the I-43/Silver lowed to work from 8 p.m. to 6 struction zone. Many of the resi 20 NIGHTS AUTHORIZED dividers will be broken up durte : Spring interchange to continue a.m., he said, Mann Bros, could dents said that while they were v The measure passed by the the day and taken away after dart : through the night until the contrac- finish the job in four weeks. bothered by noise from the project, Common Council permits Mann Kobbervig said. ; tor makes up a four-week delay, Glendale has an ordinance that especially during the early morning Bros, to work overnight for 20 Breaking up the dividers "wou§ ; but only if the noisiest work is done prohibits work with heavy machin hours, they also favored speeding days. Kobbervig said crews should be, I assume, the noisiest part c during the day. ery past 9 p.m. up the work as much as possible. start removing dividers next week. the job," he said. "Of course, 1% 4 "I only heard one comment ;* Dean Kobbervig, vice president Work on the $25 million project "I think that when we get into it, not going to say the concrete woe from a resident on this, and he was to have begun in early April, you'll find that we're not going to make noise when it falls into tib I of Mann Bros., of Janesville, told said, 'Let them work at night so aldermen that under constraints but a lawsuit by the Bavarian Inn make any more noise than you trucks." l-faiaid l/g//990 projects to start now in 1991 By Sandra Whitehead have a total of six entrance and exit ramps. There will be two northbound Postponing reconstruction of the 1-43- entrance ramps, two northbound exit Silver Spring interchange is good news for ramps, one southbound entrance ramp North Shore residents, Glendale Mayor and one southbound exit ramp. Norbert J. Hynek says. Construction on the interchange was * It's good news, he said, because the scheduled to begin in 1990 with the work will be done in a shorter period of rebuilding of two bridges over the Milwau- time. # kee River. Plans called for the southbound Wisconsin Department of Transporta lanes of the freeway to be constructed in tion officials announced Monday that 1991 and the northbound lanes in 1992. construction on bridges over the Milwau Because the start of construction will be kee River planned for this spring will be delayed, the work will be compressed into postponed to spring 1991. However, the a two-year period, Fries said. entire project is expected to be completed In an interview after the announce on schedule in 1992, they say. ment, Hynek said, "I'd rather have it that The start of the project will be delayed way. It will be beneficial to businesses, because additional environmental studies travelers and the public in the North of the area must be completed before Shore as long as they finish on time." construction can begin, DOT spokesper Hynek said Glendale's experience with son Deborah Fries said. the reconstruction of North Green Bay ; Studies have shown that previous use of Avenue taught him how important it is to land in the area could be the source of area businesses that construction is industrial waste, metals and petroleum, completed in as short a time as possible. Fries said. Consequently, government The contractor got behind on that project regulations require further studies be and city officials heard from unhappy conducted before construction can begin. businessmen and women about the mess, "There are underground storage tanks he said. all along the Port Washington Road "So we got on their case and insisted corridor,'' Fries said. they speed up their construction," he She cited a tank recently found on East added. Henry Clay Street. The construction of While interstate construction will have condominiums at 500 E. Henry Clay. its strongest impact on Glendale, other Street was temporarily halted last month North Shore communities, particularly while an old gasoline tank and some Whitefish Bay, will also be affected, surrounding soil contaminated by petro Hynek said. "It is in everyone's best leum was removed. interest to have construction time as short Construction of a new interchange was as possible," he said. ' prompted because of safety concerns. The Environmental testing will take place existing interchange has had an accident during the 1990 spring and summer rate 25 percent higher than the average construction season, Fries said. One lane urban interchange. Two persons were of North Port Washington Road will be killed there in an accident in July 1988. closed for an unspecified length of time DOT is planning to construct a safer while a crew works in front of Bay Shore interchange, called a "partial cloverleaf," Mall, making borings for soil testing, she fatHSand Silver Spring Drive. It said.' . " ' yy "r*- rrT •• ^k) • ^jJtueA.J^pnAt^ tQ*.. r s \ A \tu.*et J**ltU tyrufL «. ^£^ytieU^-^iJ^ue.X'V3 A^ ^ 199/ -[VA^etf*. <_T\ yifay 1991 JtALixji-. £$~*/3 &^PTAUL ^Ji g xAU /^Q^^ -zU^^ J**AA*U«3 SERIES OF PHOTOS SHOWING SCOPE OF SAND BASE CONSTRUCTION FOR 1-43 RECONSTRUCTION MID-JUNE 1991 6~ I tyLff/oS C0H-/UUJUL- X^ji^ yO^HJs/A^e^£ 'AA^J?. CP*&k~<*AjAyz_ Bavarian Inn seen - j at edge of | photo 3S'c\&0c auJAc sO£*iAL llxi 11991 CenH~*o Q^ivl <**4 Ajtyt&uep*-. /bleep. <^> /??( A MA- I ^JUJLA cvnjLO^ ^iAe^f A&tm At- 0&-i^XiLt^t<^ (Ush^^u-^ \ L ^>tx^ A*~td 4^-toL •& 00- oC^^^/^tcd.^a^ Z?ije£^r^A I J>4l«ci &MJ^ -fan •*£**> (0*04^ /A>* /UjuAa&uM. /hf WrJ99l _ J&ZL tk^.f A^rH^i^T^jt^ /lf^A/>r?9/ #* v^U AuuO W WUAelsA- G&/. ^vAtf actJid& w JZtut >auA> *J-¥3 #~ee&Q^ October 1988 On Jean Nicolet Rd., just N of Bender Rd., looking across Bender at the continuation of Jean Nicolet to the south. Existing 1-43 overpass over Bender Rd. is to left. Nov. 1991 Same view, showing new interlocking brick wall of expanded (widened and raised) 1-43 reconstruction. 1-43 was moved west approx. 12 ft. to the west and raised approx. 4 ft. higher at the overhead bridge level £M£: flftzy /99/ /Odrtie. A it) Q&uwi tf %Jtr. /99/ Jtfl*/*f( f — Aubftcp <*v*^t~^> s&A£o*si, XoW. £)/uU>4L. CA&fz&of ~Ykj&LaA-~ /^ / ?9/ Jlgx. \i- JULY 11*/ ^Ut^U^ /^tc^L ^^ve^^A^U ^'*&>\ JxU^ JfolUfr iOA^€ I - 43 / SILVER SPRING DRIVE OFF/ON RAMPS AND OVERPASS RECONSTRUCTION - MAY 1991 The above series of photos still show the off/on ramps at the Silver Spring Dr. interchange. View looks east/southeast with the Security Savings -Blag, in the center of the photos. Photo to left shows the view looking south from the Silver Spring Dr, bridge over the Milwaukee River, with the Bavarian Inn (white bldg.) at right edge of photo. Glendale Bavarian Inn will stay put under deaj Proposal also will speed "All I'm prepared to say at this point is that we have a tentative the law. The injunction remained work ortinterchange at deal that would allow [the Trans in effect, however, while the case with state went to the state Court of Appeals. 1-43, Silver Spring portation Department] to get on Attorneys for both sides said an with the project and keep the Ba appeal could take up to six months. By DAVID THOME varian Inn in Glendale," Johnson Fries said the department of The Journal staff said. weighed the cost of the deal against If the deal is approved, Fries other costs — monetary and other Glendale — The state JBepart- said, the department would take wise — that would have been in ment of Transportation andBavar- ownership of the land east of the curred by letting the case go to ian Inn restaurant have tentatively Bavarian Inn and begin work at the appeal. Delaying the project would agreed to a iand swap that would site Monday morning.. have resulted in additional contract settle a lawsuit, speed reconstruc LAWSUIT WOULD BE DROPPED costs of $750,000 to $850,000, she tion of the Interstate 43-Silver said. Spring Dr. interchange and keep Bavarian Inn officials turned the business at its current site. down an earlier offer of $1.3 mil Department officials also were The Transportation Depart lion for the land, saying that losing hesitant to extend the project over ment has agreed to pay $2.5 mil it would put them out of business. the winter because doing so would lion and turn over 3 acres north of The land sought by the department be hazardous to.motorists, Fries constitutes about % of its parking T^d.The"department also consid ered the possible financial harm the restaurant, at 700 W. Lexington Blvd., in exchange for 3% acres east of it. The state acquired the 3-acre area and a portion of a tourna that businesses near the construc parcel two years ago for $550,000. ment-sized soccer field. tion site would have suffered if the Deborah Fries, the department's " Under the agreement, the Ba project were to last three years in varian Inn will drop its lawsuit, stead of two, she said. • •' public information officer, said the said Mike Perino, an assistant at agreement, reached in a meeting The likelihood of the Bavarian Tuesday iri Madison, would allow torney general representing the de partment. Inn remaining in Glendale is good the state to finish the $25 million news in terms of taxes for city reconstruction project by the end The restaurant sued the depart residents/The property, which also of 1992 as planned. Without the ment over being excluded from a includes the Old Heidelberg Park deal, she said, the project could plan for relocating businesses and festival site as well as the soccer have taken an extra year to com homes displaced by the project. In field, is valued at $1,577,000. The plete. March, Milwaukee County Circuit inn paid $51,313 in propertv taxes The deal is subject to approval Judge Michael J. Barron granted an in 1990. by the officers and members of the injunction preventing the state Bavarian Inn. O.K. Johnson, chair from taking the land until the legal Officials from Milwaukee, New • man of the restaurant's Relocation requirements of a relocation plan Berlin and Germantown had lob Committee, said the members were met. bied the Bavarian Inn to relocate in, -would meet this week to vote. _ Last month^JBaiTron Med the their communities. Johnson said injunction, saying the department" ,'.that moving would have cost at* had taken measures to comply with least $8 million. Sound stoppers Journal photo by William J. Uzdas THE STATE is installing Durisol sound barriers on the west side of 1-43 just government will pay for 90% of the $3.62 million project. At a meeting south of Hampton Pue. and will place them along 1-94 between Layton from 4:30 to 7:30 this evening at the Greenfield City Hall, improvements and Grange /Wes. The specially made barriers absorb rather than reflect for the sound barrier along the west side of 1-894 between W. Howard sound waves and are the first of their kind in Wisconsin. The federal Pve. and W. Cold Spring Road will be discussed. ]iuAur. %4c**vUL NL-/99AL I-4> entrance at Silver Spring Dr. is now the ramp not taken $25 million redesign of interchange The closing already added to a bad traffic situation North Shore suburbs. in the area. Traffic on Silver Spring Dr. traveling on the To make it easier for people to get onto the south begins, and motorists are re-routed • bridge over the Milwaukee River is restricted to one bound lanes of 1-43, the state recently installed traffic lane in each direction, and backups of more than a lights on Hampton Ave. at the base of the on-ramp, block in each direction are not unusual. just west of Port Washington Rd. The state also has put ofTheJoumjd staff I _^L~—~~ h- The state had posted signs warning motorists that up traffic lane barriers so that people who leave the ramps would be closed beginning Monday and northbound 1-43 at Hampton and go west should not Glendale — At 9:45 Monday morning, a crew shut WTMJ (620 AM) reported Monday that many motor interfere with traffic on Hampton and Port Washing down the southbound entrance ramp to Interstate 43 at ists already were using alternate routes to get onto the ton Rd. Silver Spring Dr. and thus closed the way more than freeway, most notably the Good Hope Rd. entrance Also, the right lane of southbound 1-43 will be 10,000 motorists normally, use daily to get to down ramp to the north. blocked to traffic between Silver Spring and Hampton town Milwaukee. The ramp was supposed to be closed at 9 a.m. but to allow easier merging of traffic coming onto south The ramp is expected to be closed through Novem Steve Kunstmann, who works for Traffic Signing & bound 1-43 at Hampton. ber. The work is part of the reconstruction of the Marking Inc., said he had been told to put up the The entire Silver Spring Dr.- interchange is sched interchange at Silver Spring Dr. barricades between 9 and 10 a.m. and did so by 9:45 uled to be redesigned during 1991 and 1992. a.m. The on-ramp to 1-43 from eastbound Silver Spring The state also was expected to close the exit ramp The southbound entrance ramp at Silver Spring Dr. and the southbound off-ramps to eastbound and west for 1-43 southbound traffic at Silver Spring later Mon turns into a third southbound freeway lane and is bound Silver Spring should be open again by early day. normally heavily used by people coming from the December, said Adrian Miklas, project engineer. Friday May 17,1991 turning may be less likely to stop at; his station because of the closed! exit ramps to Silver Spring from! southbound 1-43. j "I expected some drop-off, but! not this. Maybe 700 or 800 gallons! Glendale snarl slashes a day," Klein said. "Some regular! customers, even Shell credit-card I holders, have told me they're j avoiding the area." Pat Russell of Milwaukee, a cus and patience tomer of Klein's, said she tried to avoid the construction zone as Klein said his Shell service sta of detours have resulted in snarled much as possible. Work on 1-43 causes tion at Silver Spring and Port traffic and turned the intersection, "One day, I was 45 minutes late Washington Rd. has been pumping at the? heart of Glendale's business picking up my son at Dominican mass confusion in --1,500 fewer gallons of gasoline $er district, into an automotive quag- [High School] because all the nearby neighborhoods day since roadwork began in April. rhire.! ramps were closed. When I got At current prices, that means Klein • - It's not unusual these days for there, he asked me where I'd been, By DAVID THOME is losing about $2,000 in sales each drivers to have to wait through two and I told him I was driving of The Journal staff day. /stoplights at Port Washington and around trying to get on the free He said that if business stayed Silver Spring — and, thanks to the way," she said. Glendale — It didn't take long down for Jong — and he suspected Security Savings clock, they can tell Klein, who has owned Silver for the reconstruction of the Inter it would — he might have to lav exactly how long they are being Port Shell since the early '70s, said state 43-Silver Spring Dr. inter off at least I of his 10 employes. delayed. he had seen worse times in the change to affect Bill Klein's busi Closed freeway ramps, recon Klein said his best business usu gasoline business. "It's not like [the ness. struction of the Silver Spring brid ally came with the summer. But construction] will put us out of 6\ ges over the Milwaukee River, util this year, vacationing drivers re business. I'll make sure it doesn't," ity work on Lexington Blvd. and j he said ; Efender Rd. and a confusing array ! t '0 '*' /'*'$' Atf •" * a 'A jm.'A\ ' 'w' ^ OTHERS DOING BETTER The mall is experiencing to.*- struction problems of its own. Con - ^mA99t-> n Other gas stations in the area duit has been installed under parts reported little change in their busi of the floor and a new entrance is nesses. Brian Bergner, manager of being built, necessitating a limit on Green Tree Amoco at Green Tree "mall-walking" hours. And the and Port Washington Rds., said his building of a Bay Shore branch of business increased over the last First Wisconsin National Bank is three weeks, but couldn't deter tying up a large portion of the mine if it was resulting from the warm weather or drivers exiting at Good Hope Rd. and coming a few shopping center's northwest park blocks south to his station. ing lot. Mary Schwann, manager of the Mike Groene, manager of the Citgo Quik Mart at Bender and Goodyear Auto Service Center, Port Washington Rds., and Dick 5960 N. Port Washington, said he Hock, owner of Dick's Standard Service Station at Silver Spring and didn't expect any impact from the ' Port Washington, both said they construction until after "people expected business to pick up during have to wait through a few stop construction. lights. That kind of thing gets frus Schwann said: "If anything, I'll trating." benefit because people will get off j the freeway a little sooner and j drive past my place." | Hock's theory runs counter to | conventional wisdom: "It's pretty j congested now; maybe [the con- | struction] will get rid of some traf- j fie A corner can be too busy." j Most business owners and man- f agers said the construction hadn't | made any dents, but that didn't I mean there weren't concerns I Echo Bowl owner Don Hilde- | brand, representing the Glendale [ Business Association, encouraged ; the Common Council on Monday to permit all-night work on 1-43 ; because, "the sooner they get this ; thing done, the better it will be for i everyone." MALL INCREASES ADS In anticipation of the two-year Journal photo by Gary Porter project, Bay Shore Mall conducted a traffic study and found that most BILL KLEIN says gasoline sales at his Shell service station, Silver Spring Dr. and Port Washington Rd. in Glendale, are down about of its customers come from east of f Port Washington Rd, mall Manag 1,500 gallons per day since construction began on the Interstate er Rebecca Powell-McCarthy said 43-Silver Spring Dr. interchange. Nonetheless, she said the mall in creased promotions, including tele vision advertising. In late April, crews started [ Not every aspect of this op- working on the $25 million ; eration seems to have received project to move the segment '• |. the forethought of a Kasparov of 1-43 between W. Lexington chess move. Bender Rd. is the -43 aims Blvd. and W. Bender Rd. 185 first east-west street north of Sil feet to the west. This year, ver Spring to cross the river. This they're working on the south week, construction crews were bound section. Next year, tearing up sections of the Bender for state they'll tackle the northbound Rd. bridge over the Milwaukee lanes. New entrance ramps River, are being built and the Silver The first major alternate north- Spring bridge over the Mil south road west of 1-43 is Green 'of grace waukee River is being re Bay Ave. Earlier this week, Con placed. struction crews were working there at Silver Spring. Several homes on N. Jean DOT casting out Nicolet Rd. have been re The department is doing its moved so construction crews best to keep everyone informed Ramps from Hell can move sewer and water about the construction. They've pipes to the west Traffic is even prepared a video that they ByDAVETIANEN expected to remain open on N. run just off center mall at Bay Sentinel staff writer Ironwood La. and W. Lexing Shore Mail. The Book of Exodus tells us ton Blvd., although both As road videos go, it could use that it took Moses and the streets will experience some a couple of guys in long beards Tribe of Israel 40 years to delays. and a few leggy ladies. reach the Promised Land. The southbound lanes and 7 bridge work are expected to f Actually, it has some of the The main reason it didn't be completed by late fall. So flavor of an educational science take longer is that God far, the biggest potential for movie crossed with a Cagney warned them to avoid the In gridlock would seem to be on | prison film. The prison ambience terstate 43 —- Silver Spring the southbound freeway, I comes about because you have to overpass. where between 9 a.m. and 3 | watch it through the metal grates Ever since its construction p.m., traffic is being narrowed of one of those mall store parti fit 1957, the Junction of W- to one lane. tions. According to department Silver Spring Dr. and 1-43 has spokeswoman Deborah Fries, the seemed like an experiment in To everyone's credit and / or I video so far hasn't been as popu- traffic engineering by the good fortune, the snarls have I lar as the aerial photograph of the Prince of Darkness. been minimal. During a check I work site next to it. Inattentive drivers in the shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, traf I "I went over with my daughter east lane of 1-43 northbound fic was moving through the con and nobody was watching it," she often found themselves with a struction area at 20 to 25 mph — [said. "Instead of watching the choice between a sudden exit practically warp speed by rush- video, people stop and look at the and sailing directly into the hour standards. aerial and point out where they second floor of Security Bank Joe Caruso, marketing director live. That seems to be the most when their lane suddenly van for the Milwaukee County Tran populalar aspeci t of the whole thing ished. sit System, said buses have been jso far." Owners of compact cars making the? run from W. Brown braveiy trying to enter 1-43 Deer Rd. to W. Wells St. Down from the Silver Spring ramps town in 14 minutes. often had the exhilarating sen 'That may be just a couple sation of what it might be like minutes longer than what we to drive a moped in the Fire normally have," Caruso said. "I ball 500. There have been lon really have to give the DOT a lot ger merge lanes on Hot of credit." Wheels tracks. The department seems to be safety-conscious almost to a In 1989, State Department fault. A large sign at the Silver of Transportation officials Spring West exit says "Ramp came up with a safety modifi Closed." The rubble just beyond cation for one of the ramps. looks much like recent photo •, They closed it. graphs of the Iraqi air defense Now, they have come up headquarters. with a better and more expen On the Silver Spring bridge, sive solution: They're tearing traffic is narrowed to one lane up the Intersection from Hell each way, with orange-striped and starting over. construction barrels topped by yellow flashers spaced about ev ery 4 feet along the median. A large sign says "No Passing." Anybody assertive enough to con sider crashing through the barri cades to run head-on into oncom ing traffic probably isn't going to be deterred by the sign. 3-1 1-43 /Silver Spring interchange m First phase of the $25 million project nearN Silver Spring Dr. is expected to be completed by late 1991. Included are the Silver Spring bridge over the Milwaukee River, southbound freeway and southbound on and off ramps. • Freeway is restricted between Bender Rd. and railroad bridge south of Lexington Blvd. to 2 lanes each way during rush hours. It may be restricted to 1 lane between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and after 8 p.m. on weekdays. • Freeway will be relocated a maximum of 175 feet to the west of the original roadway. Relocation starts south of Bender and ends near Lexington. • Area shoppers can enterfbe freeway northbound at Good Hope Rd. and south of Stiver Spring on Port Washington & -A /99t Rd. Drivers may enter southbound at Hampton Av^ The 1-43 Hotline for North Shore residents and businesses from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation • SUMMER 1991 • Silver Spring Interchange Reconstruction The new wall by The Reinforced Earth Company fakes shape • Whether you're on Silver ger for The Reinforced Earth Geotextile material is being Spring Drive or 1-43, it's hard Company of McLean, Virginia, used to strengthen the soil. to drive past the activity just the product's manufacturer. west of the present freeway Invented 20 years ago by without staring. For the past Skeptics who wonder how a French engineer Henri Vidal, few weeks, most passersby set of interlocking panels only earth wall technology has have been fascinated by a civil 5" thick can hold back tons of been adopted in Europe and engineering technique that's fill can relax, engineers assure. Japan. Its advantages over new to the Milwaukee area: The physical laws that make traditional civil engineering the steady, snap-together the wall "work" rely on rein materials are said to include: growth of a mechanically- forcing strips that are 70% as flexibility; strength; ease of stabilized earth wall. long as the height of the com installation; and considerable pleted structure. savings in time and materials. "The walls on this project The use of earth wall tech represent the most complex "The construction of this wall nology on the 1-43 project will earth wall design in the state. is a simple, repetitive process. save taxpayers an estimated Our product was also used Reinforcing strips are attached $500,000. recently on Highway 16 in to each new row of panels. A Oconomowoc, but earth wall layer of granular fill - in this Earth walls are being built technology is still considered case, sand from Fredonia - is on Jean Nicolet at Bender; relatively new in the Midwest. added and compressed. Then on Ironwood La.; and both It's been very well received in you build the next layer,1' said north and south of Silver the South for some time," said DOT project engineer Adrian Spring Dr. David Whidby, project mana Miklas. ?3 ^^ *^^AAs \ PARTIAL CLOVERLEAF ALTERNATIVE The new freeway alignment and interchange at Silver Spring, expected to be completed in late 1992 CLEARING UP CONFUSION The reconstruction of the Silver Spring interchange has challenged highway designers, public administrators and planners for years. The 143 interchange Reconstruction is a complex project that directly affects 86,000 freeway drivers and the users and residents of Jean Nicolet Rd., Ironwood Lane, Lexington Blvd. and Silver Spring Dr., along with the employees and customers of area businesses. This newsletter is one of several you will receive during the two construction seasons that will be required to build the interchange. The final design was done for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation by the engineering firm of Howard, Needles. Tammen and Bergendoff (HNTB). Their representatives spent a great deal of time over many years working with the local communities to address design issues, including the type of retaining wall and the landscaping of the east bank of the river along the freeway. It was HNTB's environmental investigation that revealed the need to perform some environmental cleanup of soils and groundwater in the vicinity of the Port Washington Rd./Silver Spring intersection as part of this project. The project was designed to be built in two 9-month construction seasons. In the first year, 1991, the DOT's contractors will build a new bridge over the Milwaukee river on Silver Spring Dr., a new southbound freeway alignment between Bender Rd. and Lexington Blvd.; and new southbound on and off ramps that are longer and safer than the old ramps. In 1992, the new northbound freeway lanes will be constructed, along with the other "half1 of the interchange. In 1992, there will also be a reconstruction of the Silver Spring/Port Washington Rd. intersection. Drivers may find the 1992 work to be more of an inconvenience. Because the 1991 start of construction was delayed, it is possible that this year's schedule may be extended past the planned Decemeber 17th completion date. The 1992 work will begin next April. Al North Shore Water Conservation Day Saturday, September 28, / ??/ As part of the reconstruction of the 1-43 interchange at Silver Spring Drive, utility contractors must relocate the raw water transmission pipe that supplies the North Shore Filtration Plant with Lake Michigan water. On Saturday, September 28, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation will disconnect this vital water source for the communities of Glendale, Whitefish Bay and Fox Point, and reconnect the transmission pipe to a relocated linkage on Jean Nicolet Road, south of Bender Road. The complex disconnect/reconnect utility work is expected to take as long as 20 hours. During this time, the only source of water for the 37,000 residents served by the North Shore Water Commission will be water that is already stored in hold- ding tanks. The Commission will also be on standby connection to a City of Milwaukee emergency water source. To ensure the safety of North Shore residents during this crucial utility operation, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the Commission's communities of Glendale, Whitefish Bay and Fox Point are asking users to safeguard their water supply by engaging in the following conservation activities for 24 hours, beginning at 7:00 a.m. on September 28: • No lawn watering D No car washing • No household laundry • Limited use of water for dishwashing and for bathing It is important that the Water Commission have enough water in storage to supply industry, health care facilities, and to fight fires. The stored water supply will be continuously monitored as soon as the intake source is shut down. Residents who economize their water use for just one day will be preserving a precious commodity for themselves and for their community. ?5 North Shore An PREPARATORY WORK DONE The 30-inch-diameter intake 1-43 worker Make every pipe crosses under Interstate 43 west of Bay Shore Shopping Cen in Glendale ter, turns north at W. Montclaire drop count Ave. and follows N. Jean Nicolet Road to the North Shore water falls 30 feet filtration plant at 400 W. Bender Glendale — A 23-year-old con- c Road. struction worker fell 30 feet from j on Saturday Because the freeway is being a retaining wall Friday while moved 175 feet west, however, the working on the new overpass at Water intake line intake pipe has to be moved afc 1-43 and W. Silver Spring Dr., being moved because well. police said. All of the preparatory work — The accident occurred about 1 of 1-43 construction even laying new sections of pipe — p.m. as the man was standing on is already done, Ingwersen said. the wall, guiding a load of ply- . By DAVID THOME But on Saturday, the pipe must be wood suspended from a hydraulic \ of The Journal staff disconnected and drained before cherry picker, said Police Sgt.>•• The pipe that brings Glendale, being hooked up again. Rick Bub. •> % Fox Point and Whitefish Bay water The Transportation Depart The load shifted as it moved ; from Lake Michigan will be discon ment said the work would be done & toward the man, he said. ) nected most of Saturday, leaving a on Saturday, rain or shine. *•• A witness told police it was mere 243.24 gallons of water for The federal government is pay i unclear whether the load hit the each of the 37,000 people who live ing 90% of the $307,700 cost of man or if he lost his balance, Bub in those communities. relocating the pipe. The three com said. Of course, there should be no munities will pick up the remaining The man fell three feet before problem, since each resident typi 10%. he stopped his fall by grabbing a cally uses only 148.64 gallons of Chuck Hasseldahl, water utility protruding wall jack. The jack water on Saturdays in late Septem manager, said that 9 million gallons then broke loose and he fell an- ber. of water can be kept in reserve. The •» other 27 feet, Bub said. Nonetheless, the North Shore average amount of water used, in The man, who Is from Cudahy, Water Commission, state Depart Glendale, Fox Point and Whitefish complained that he could not feel ment of Transportation and local Bay on a typical weekend day ih anything from his chest down, officials are asking residents to con autumn is about S.5 million gal Bub said. serve for up to 20 hours while the lons, he said. He was taken to Froedtert i final steps are taken to move the To put it in perspective, the mortal Lutheran Hospital in Wau- pipe out of the way of the new utility is capable of storing enough i watosa. Information on his condi- Interstate 43-Silver Spring Drive water to let every resident of the l tion was unavailable late Friday. interchange. three communities flush a toilet 40 The man is employed by the "We're not saying don't use wa times and still have three gallons \ Waukesha-based Lunda Con- ter, but we are asking the residents left over. ! struction Co., Bub said. of these three communities to He said the amount of water in adopt a California mind-set for a storage should be enough for emer day," said Chuck Ingwersen, proj gencies, and, if necessary, the utili ?//'//99/ ect supervisor for the Transporta ty could get water from Milwaukee. tion Department, alluding to a long-lasting drought that has forced strict water conservation measures on much of the Golden State. ~MJA> . !W~^ Residents will be asked to limit the amount of water they use for ?.. 2.7-/77/ bathing and showering and house hold cleaning and to refrain from doing laundry, washing their cars and watering their lawns for at least 20 hours starting'at 7 a.m. Satur day. Businesses, such as restaurants, car washes and commercial laun dries, are not included in the con servation effort. •c^o isrianea interchange WITH THE COMPLETION of a $25 million reconstruction project, the new Silver Spring Drive ramps on 1-43 (top; feature longer merge lanes, better visibility and improved exits, compared with those on the previous ramps (below), shown in a 1987 file photo. Before the merge lanes were lengthened to 1,000 feet, drivers had to contend with 300-foot adventures in merging, all without the benefit of good visibili ty. The exit ramp from northbound 1-43 onto Port Washington Road was changed so that cars in the right lane were not forced to exit. The two-year project required 19,000 truckloads of sand, 4,000 truckloads of fill, 30,000 cubic yards of concrete and 417.5 tons of steel. An estimated 86,000 cars use the interchange daily. / Joumalflle photo *//*//993 9£ 4& tieram Q i. i Thursday, April 28, 1994 Your Official Local Newspaper 3 Sections, 66th Year, No. 17 Residents want sound barriers along Interstate 43 And Nelson's not alone. They say constant noise He said he receives several phone calls each day from concerned residents after hurts property values he opened up the issue last year when he asked his neighbors if they were bothered by the noise. By Kimberly Wilmof Staff Writer Ronn Nelson, 5960 N. Bayridge Road, "It's big time noise has heard it all — all the noise from Inter state 43 and more. pollution."Whenever Now he wants the sounds of silence, there is a breeze or and the signs of silence, too. Nelson wants sound barriers built wind, there is a along the east side of the freeway to muffle the sound of traffic, and the echo continuous roar and it that traffic makes as it hits the barrier along the west side of the interstate in doesn't stop until the Glendale. "It's big time noise pollution," Nelsori~ windjstops blowing/' An almost Complete sound barrier—what some Whitefish Bay residents want—on said. "Whenever there is abreeze or wind, the west side of Interstate 43 in Glendale. there is a continuous roar and it doesn't Ronn Nelson stop until the wind stops blowing." Resident wall and into the community, they con Whitefish Bay Village Board. The issue tend. In addition, the new portion of the was referred to the village's Board of road is grooved for better traction which Health, which will be meeting at 7:30 Nelson said he received an overwhelm causes more noise from the tire of the p.m. May 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the village hall ing response from residents on his block vehicles. to discuss the matter. and in the surroundingarea, and his ini But whether the sound barrier walls tial query led to an organized group of re can be built on the west side of the free "We recognize that this is a problem," sidents from the 5800 block of Bay Ridge way may not be up to the village, or the said Village President James Gormley. "It to the 5500 block of Shoreland who want federal government, which Nelson said is one that has been under study for over to see traffic noise reduced. Each block has money for such a noise barrier. a year. now has a representative that will be de The freeway, technically, is in Glen "We recognize that it is probably not aling with the Whitefish Bay Village dale. And that city does not want an east moving fast enough to suit our residents. Board. wall, saying it would block the view of the We recognize their concerns and will fol Specifically, the residents want a Bayshore Mall businesses. low up with the Department of Transpor sound barrier put in on the east side of And, said Nelson, the federal govern tation and the City of Glendale to move the freeway. ment requires that the jurisdiction af the process along." And it's not just the noise they are con fected by the noise must request the bar Meanwhile, while Whitefish Bay resi cerned about. Many feel the noise will riers. In this case, the government con dents want sound barriers, some Glen lead to lower property values. siders the jurisdiction to be Glendale, dale residents have already started to Nelson and his supporters have said which is not interested in requesting complain about the barriers on the west the noise problem for Whitefish Bay resi those funds." side of the freeway. Crews lift a panel up to the noise barrier, dents was amplified in spring when Residents have signed petitions, con Construction of the barriers started4 sound barriers were built on the west side tacted the Department of Transportation, last November, and before they were com what one Glendale resident called a of the interstate. ^Jprison wall." spoke with Glendale officials and, most pletely erected, some Glendale residents The traffic noise now bounces off the recently, took their concerns to the considered the walls an eyesore. ble, a barrier won't necessarily be put up Residents want noise barrier The problem is that although Whitens! Bay residents may want a wall,interstat* "Any visual obstruction of Bayshore 43 is in Glendale. Mall would not be in the best interest of "It's hot going to be easily solved. on east side of Interstate 94 Glendale," Maslowski said. Schmidt s1aM;r;"The^^ar^a fev ;i decibel level. In a residential neighbor Without a sound barrier, residents are ^complication^." £ -V-3^ By Kimberly Wilmot hood, the decibel limit is 67. concerned the noise will lead to lower/? Glendale officials^^have^indicated fron Staff Writer From the Department of Transporta property values. Resident Ronn Nelson the beginning that theyidb'ntitSrant ; tion's point of view, nothing can be done said one of riis neighbors has already felt wall. City Administrator Richard Ma the impact while trying to sell their home. slowski pointed out that Bayshore Mall i Ror.majEjy^ the until sound testing is conducted. The de partment plans to conduct the test this The Whitefish Bay Village Board will the community's second largest tax nc^cc^|inw% whil^li^ possibility of a summer. soon be taking up thev sound barrier payer. He said that he has;T^trmet wifl noi^e^1fcariie^lon the east side on inter cissue. The Board ofHe^dth wiir be ad Whitefish Bay officials because^ wall wi state 43 rieSi^; Bay Shore-Mall remains Noise testing was conducted in 1993v after the construction was completed and dressing residents' concerns at the May 9 not be built. _.._, ^^ 4 uncertain. v. meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Village Hall. 3V group^of ccon- it was determined that the necessary lim- "There won't be an east side barrier tits had been reached on the west side of Prior to the hearing, village officials will Maslowski said. The freeway is in Gler: c ernedi fiWhitefish be meeting with state transportation per Bay residents from the freeway. There have been no tests dale, and it is the city's decision." conducted since the west wall was sonnel to try to find a solution to the prob Glendale's decision is based on the in i the 5800 block of lem, although Schmidt said that the an Bay Ridge to the erected. 5 terests of businesses in that area. A bai One of the primary complaints from swer likely lies with an agreement be rier at this location would block the sign 5 500 block of tween Whitefish Bay and Glendale. S nor el and have Whitefish Bay residents is that the traffic of businesses at Bayshore Mall and alor> petitioned the Vil noise is bouncing off the west wall and "We are following up on the residents' Port Washington Road. lage Board and con into their neighborhoods. petition," Village Engineer Rob Vanden tacted other local According to Schmidt, the chances of Noven said. "The village will be meeting officials to get a ; ... .. this happening are slirh. "We're not con with the Department of Transportation to road barrier built Maslowski cerned about noise reflection," Schmidt discuss options." there, but there are a few roadblocks in said. their way. The Department of Transportation's THE.HERALD At this point, it has not been deter reasoning is that the west barrier is made mined that the area of Interstate 43 near of sound absorbing material. Schmidt Bayshore Mail is eligible "for a barrier, said that 80 percent of the sound energy said Department of Transportation Engi that hits the wall will never come off. neer Robert Schmidt. To be qualified, the If the testing finds that the area is ellgi- noise level would have to be at a certain CONT1NUED ON PAGE 5 Whitefish Bay meeting looks at freeway's noise barriers By WENDI MUEHLS mine if the noise has increased Sentinel correspondent "Since the farriers since pre-barrier tests were done. I Whitefish Bay — Residents weint up, the noise is However, getting barriers will get to sound off Monday on built oil the east side could take what some say is a noise prob more noticeably." " some doing because the entire lem caused by freeway barriers freeway is in Glendale and offi erected to soften the sound of — PEGGIE WINDSOR Whitefish Bay resident cials there don't want barriers whirring tires. on the east side. The barrier walls, built on Richard Maslowski, Glendale the west side of 1-43 in Glen city administrator, said the pri dale, were erected to absorb Ridge Ave., said she is starting to be mpre conscious of the mary concern of the city is to and deflect highway noise protect its taxpayers, and an away from nearby homes. But noise problem because it has become a neighborhood issue. east-side barrier would block some village residents, who live Bay Shore Mall's visibility, east of 1-43 and north of Silver "It does get a little loud when hurting business. Spring Drive, say the one-sided the windows are open," she said. Moecker said the local juris highway barriers bounce the dictions would have to come to noise their way. Some residents on Lydell, some agreement before the Peggie Windsor, who lives Bay Ridge and Kent avenues DOT would step in. on North Bay Ridge Avenue, said they haven't noticed any said she has noticed an increase increase and don't have a prob "I don't know if there is a in noise since the walls went lem with highway noise, middle ground here," he said. up, especially in the early Patricia Campbell, who lives Moecker also said there are morning and at night. on Kent Avenue, said the free funding limitations on such "It's a problem," Windsor way noise does not bother her projects and local municipalities said. "It's a shame. Since the unless the wind is blowing in a would be asked to pay part of barriers went up, the noise is certain direction. the cost. Barrier walls range more noticeable." "And that is very seldom," from $750,000 to $1 million per However, the noise did not she said. mile, he said. affect the sale of her home, Don Moecker, a Department The Whitefish Bay Health which was on the market four of Transportation spokesman, Committee will discuss the is days. said a sound test would be con sue Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Mary Mulcahy, 6100 N. Bay ducted this summer to deter Village Hall. 91 ~p THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL S'-/9-/99Y.. PageB: protest roar of 1-43 on. minable length," said John Bird, The situation might not be in Whitefish Bay last year avail Changes increased Residents of a neighborhood of 6123 N. Lydell Ave. hopeless, said Michael Gonia, able at the Board of^ Health problem on east side of near the highway are asking the "The only relief you get is environmental design supervisor meeting in June. That data, com state Department of Transporta rush hour, when traffic has to for the Transportation Depart bined with results from tests freeway, they tell board tion for relief in the form of a slow down,." said Don Cairns, of ment,; because the rules: aren't scheduled for nexfcmonth, will noise barrier similar to the one 6054 N.: Bay Ridge Ave. clear about such cases, which are indicate whether noise levels in- By DAVID THOME on the west side of 1-43. The barrier on the west s«Je rare. creased"when: the west-side wall of The Journal staff Others say they're ready to was installed because Glendale; went up in October. He'd like to see the communi , Unde^th^ nile^jnoise levels take the matter to court. They're officials requested it after dozens ties work things out. -*; / Whitefish Bay —-People who also considering a boycott to of residents complained about : must reach* 67^ cjecirjels for a live near Interstate 43 want the change the minds of Bay Shore noisef There is no wall on'the Edmund Henschel, Whitefish community to be eligible for a volume turned down, ;and they Mall officials, who say that a. east side^ however, because mer Bay village manager; said that noise barrier. meannow. - chants in arid near Bay Shore noise barrier on the east side of • 4 Glendale officials had. told him Even if the, noise^leyels arc About 125 residents Monday the freeway would hurt business Mall said the reduced visibility they might permit ¥ barrier that high, in ^Whitefish Bay, gave state and village officials an because •) motorists would not be woiddhurttheir businesses: " north of Bay Shore, but would there's no; guarantee resid nt$ earful about traffic noise, which able to see the mall. UPT66liNDALE like to* explore whether altering will get fast relief./The. state they said increased first when The affected area is roughly the freeway pavement would makes priorities of noise barrier construction on the W. Silver bounded by N. Lydell Ave. on Bob Schmidtj noise abate help. sites and installs.them whep Spring Drive interchange ended the west, N. Shoreland Ave. on ment engineer for the Transport money is available. In. more thap in late. 1992, and again last fall the east, Montclaire Aye. on the tation Department, said the rules NOISE DATA r 20 years, barriers have been built when a barrier was built to re south and E. School Road on the on noise walls allow them to be Gonia said grooves in the new at 12 of 147 eligible sites, accord duce sound west of the freeway. north/ ?•' installed only when requested by pavement might have resulted in ing to Gonia. "I can't sit in my den any v Residents had many stories to the community in which the af higher-pitched noise, not more more," said Tom LaFave, of tell the village Board of Health fected stretch of freeway lies. noise. Barriers cost about $1 milliorr 6233 N. Lydell Ave. "When the on Monday. In this case, the freeway is in per mile, and the state's goal is to wind's from the southwest, I can "The noise can best be de Glendale, but the affected homes Gonia and Schmidt promised spend no more than $30,000 per hear it even with headphones scribed as a freight train of inter are in Whitefish Bay. to make sound-level data taken affected house, Gonia said. , Thursday, ), 1994 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ;: v Ridge to the 5500 block of Shoreland Tests were taken wnen traffic bn i-43 have said that the traffic noise is loud and was moving at a consistent speed. At constant. They would like to have a and the noise decreases. A^cims^rucriori^ Some traffic noise tops sound wall erected on the east side of project, expected to eliminate the back 1-434 similar to the one on the west side. Officials from the DOT have said they ups, will widen the freeway just past Ben would not take sound tests until later this der Road. The faster moving traffic might summer. prove noisier to the Whitefish Bay state levels in meter test residents. Those tests are taken over the course "Noise is directly related to speed," said of a hour. The tests taken by CNI News Mike Gonia, the district environmental Residents continue the papers were done for shorter periods of design supervisor for the state Depart HOW LOUD IS IT? time. ment of Transportation. fight to get a sound What CNI Newspapers' test showed is The sound level must exceed 67 de According to the DOT'S Noise that decibel levels can change dramati cibels for the area to qualify for a barrier barrier in neighborhood Barrier Study, sound registering cally within a few minutes. with the DOT, he said. at: In a 10-minute test taken at the in By Kimberiy Wilmot tersection of Bender and Lydell at 7 a.m., Residents have said that the noise is • 50 decibels is the Staff Writer the measurements varied from 60 to 72 the loudest when there is a west wind equivalent of a dishwasher in decibels. There was a detectable differ blowing and in the early morning hours. Just two years ago, Bay Ridge Road the next room; ence shown when large trucks drove by Winds were out of the northeast when was a peaceful street to live on, said one • 65 decibels is the equiva and other outside noises also affected the CNI Newspapers conducted the tests. resident. lent of normal speech at three measurements. But since the repaying and construc- feet away; Non-scientific sound tests were taken In the groove? ttoniwqrfc oii Interstate 43, that's no lon- at different times at various places Friday .ger th^*¥i#M^^ 15-year resident • 70 decibels i3 ab^fcgj^. same as the sbund ofa^vac^ and Monday. Most of the readings Grooves in the road, which.change the who asked not to be named. showed decibel levels in the low 60s. uum, cleaner at 10 feet away or sound's pitch, might be the source of the Since then, the"-quiet street has turned noise problem, said Robert Schmidt, an noisy, she said, and sitting oil her fam a gas lawn mower at 1Q0 feet; Up to 72 decibels engineer at the DOT. Vehicles traveling ily's back porch is not as relaxing as it and ! over the grooves make a different sound once was. • 78 decibels is the equiva Measurements taken at noon on Fri than those riding over smooth pavement, "You can't just white it out," she said. lent of shouting heard at three day found noise at 60 decibels at 6069 N. he said. "People are not complaining because they Bay Ridge Road. Sound levels were a bit don't have anything better to do. This was feet away. "It may be a change in pitch rather higher at 6141 N. Lydell, where they than an increase in decibel," said never a problem before." ranged from 65 to 68 decibels. Noise Schmidt. A sound barrier or a new surface on the stayed at around 65 at 6249 N. Lydell. freeway or both would solve the problem, of the freeway. The Department of Trans- The sound barriers are designed to re poration recently paid for and built a The loudest sounds were found at 6209 duce noise levels by eight decibels. Ac she said. N. Lydell, where noise reached 65 to 70 Other residents agree, and tests to sound barrier on the west side of the cording to the DOT, most people perceive highway. decibels. an eight-decibel reduction in sound measure traffic sound levels near some Tests done at 7 a.m. Monday at Bender Whitefish Bay homes lend some credence The unscientific tests, taken with a levels to be cutting the noise almost in and Lydell registered 60 to 72 decibels, half. to residents' request for a sound barrier. hand-held decibel meter, showed that with most of the noise readings in the low CNI Newspapers conducted the tests most decibel levels were in the low 60s. 60s. The measurements at Bay Ridge and The state also requires that noise must to detenriirie whether or not the sound However, many reached the upper 60s Devon were between 60 and 63. Readings maintain levels at or beyond 67 decibels levels exceed state limits and require the and even lower 70s. The sound level must at Monrova and Lydell ranged from 60 to for at least 24 hours. Also considered is construction of a sound barrier on the equal or exceed 67 decibels In an area be 65. the average age of abutting residential east side of Interstate 43, near Bayshore fore the state considers building a properties and the cost of the barrier per barrier. Measurements done that same day at abutting residence. Mall. noon found noise at 60 decibels at the in Residents who live in the area want Loud and constant tersections of both Bay Ridge and Mont- The estimated cost to build a barrier is one, contending that traffic noise levels claire and Lydell and Montclaire. Tests $1 million per mile. The DOTs share of from the freeway are just as high, if not Residents from the 5800 block of Bay done at Bender and Lydell measured at the total cost for a noise barrier must not higher, than noise levels on the west side CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 60 to 65 decibels. exceed $30,000 per abutting residence. If Tests done at 7 p.m. Monday did not the cost exceeds the $30,000 limit, the rise higher than 60 decibels at Bender local government might agree to pay the and Lydell, at Bay Ridge and Devon and difference to make the barrier eligible for at Montclaire and Lydell.. consideration. Bay residents won't keep quiet about 1-43 sound barriers Council is also opposed to a sound barrier. Council fish Bay Village Board meeting on May 9 if she By Kimbedy Wilmof secretary Burt Trouteaud said the Glendale busi would have had prior notice. She has requested mi Staff Writer ness community wants the visibility a sound bar nutes of the meeting. rier would block. Whitefish Bay residents are pushing Bayshore Whitefish Bay residents will continue to make "It's not necessary," Trouteaud said. "People ha and Its tenants to back their request for a sound noise until they get a sound barrier along Interstate ven't had enough experience to tell if the west wall barrier and warning them that a boycott may be ini 43. was working." tiated if they fail to do so. And they are prepared to take whatever mea A sound barrier has been erected on the west A flyer distributed at the May 9 Village Board sures are necessary — including a boycott of Bay- side of Interstate 43, muffling noise for Glendale meeting asked residents to participate in a boycott shore Mall — to make sure their voices are heard. residents. of select Bayshore stores. The fryer also stated that The residents want a And Trouteaud said a Whitefish Bay resident's residents backing the wall plan to meet with Bay- sound barrier to block noise suggestion of placing signs near the freewayexi t ad . shore Mall officials and key tenants to request sup from the freeway. vertising nearby businesses has been blocked by port of 2l sound wall. But the interstate is in the state Department of Transportation in the past. Resident David Fee said that meetings have not Glendale, and City Adrnini- "They have vetoed every effort," Trouteaud said. yet occurred, although talks are underway. The re strator Richard Maslowski Bayshore manager Rebecca Powell said she sidents hope to meet with mall officials soon, has said. a sound barrier could not comment on a sound barrier because she though, he said. would block the view of signs did not have enough information aboutone. Powell Trouteaud said that he didn't think that the and businesses in the mall said she was not aware of the situation until she re proposed boycott will change the situation, and along Port Washington ceived a letter from a Whitefish Bay resident on May "I don't believe it would do any good either way." Road. 6. -. - '">v" Trouteaud said. "It's not Bayshore causing the The Glendale Business TfOUteaud Powell said she would have attended the White- problem. I doubt a boycott will make a differenced y r ,r MIT|JJTMITIJ MTiifcn tftiiiVifl ^^Vfi^V^V^fii ^.V^Vrtf rr.rrf rir % Whiv .iBay U-t-i11f State to test level of 1-43 freeway noise By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN of The Journal staff Lake Drive resurfacing begins later this month Whitefish Bay — The state Whitefish Bay — The resur ably would be assessed the most, Transportation Department next facing of Lake Drive here is ex $2,193. week plans to measure just how pected to start during the fourth The state will pay 72% of the loud noise from Interstate 43 is week of June and will affect resurfacing cost and half the in the neighborhoods east of the thousands of motorists who use lighting cost. freeway and north of Bay Shore this state highway to get to and The resurfacing of the three- Mall. from downtown Milwaukee and mile stretch should be finished Noise tests also will be con the University of Wisconsin-Mil by the end of October. The road ducted west of the freeway, Vil waukee. will be open to two lanes of lage Manager Edmund Henschel A hearing will be held at 7:30 traffic throughout the project, said Tuesday. p.m. June 20 at the Village Hall Murphy said. to let the affected property own Sidewalks in disrepair will be The results of those tests are ers, who will be charged a special replaced, as will curbs, gutters expected by Sept. 1. Under the assessment, know how much and driveway approaches. For rules, noise levels must reach 67 they will have to pay for the the most part, property owners decibels for a community to work. will have vehicular access to qualify for a noise barrier. The Village Hall is at 5300 N. their properties while the work is Residents have complained Marlborough Drive. being done. that since the state erected noise Assistant Village Manager New lighting will be some barriers on the west side of the Shawn Murphy on Tuesday said what brighter and more directly freeway this spring, they have the owner of a mansion with 302 light up the street, rather than gotten an earful of traffic noise. feet of Lake Drive frontage prob adjacent property. But the freeway is in Glendale; the affected homes are in White- fish Bay. State rules require that would react if the tests conclude tervened and got the state to the community where the free the noise is excessive. move more quickly, Henschel way is located must request the said. Gov. Tommy G. Thomp sound barriers. "We're all waiting to find out what the test results will be," son's office also volunteered to Glendale officials have said said Rebecca Powell Marx, the help. they would not want the barriers mall's general manager. There is, however, no guaran to hurt the visibility of Bay tee that Whitefish Bay will get Shore Mall, which is in that com The noise tests were to be fast relief. The state sets priori munity. A mall official declined done in July, but state Sen. Al ties on noise barriers, installing to say how the shopping center berta Darling (R-River Hills) in them when money is available. 9^ Thursda iugust 18, 1994 m&l*>£^L_ Interstate was oppos. * from the Glen dale business community, Which felt DOT, said that he had not heard of a re such a wall would prevent drivers from quest to remove the tining from a surface viewing their signs and in turnimrt busi before. He said that there is an increase in ness. The business commui^fyisnbwin Repave Interstate 43 to the noise factor, especially in the first favor of eliminating the fining, though, as year, but that the grating is done for a way to satisfy both residents and safety reasons/Concrete without the businesses. reduce noise, residents grated surface often wears down quickly and becomes slippery when wet. "We are all infavor of getu%jgridofthe Whitefish Bay and Glendale residents other two were the increased height of the Schmidt said the whining noise occurs tining," said Burt Trouteaudi a member are banding together to resolve noise freeway and the sound barriers in Glen when air gets caught in the grooves as the of the Glendale Business CJounciL "The problems created by traffic on Interstate dale, which produced an echo effect. car tires go over the surface. He said this walls would be very detrimental to bu 43. To resolve the problem, Whitefish Bay- noise drops considerably after the first sinesses. We are please to hear support As Bay residents residents asked for sound barriers simi years as the rough surfaces are worn Sxxt, this option." ; away. He said that there are no definite wait to hear lar to those their Glendale counterparts The Glendale residents are asking the whether a sound have. Ifiguresayallable for thfe costs ihvolyed hr eliminatingthe tining, although he estH Glendale Common Council to support a barrier will be built At that time, the state Department oi resolution requestingthe staterepave In on the east side of Transportation said a minimum noise mated it could range between $1 million terstate 43 at its Aug. 22 meeting. The the interstate, they level would have to be recorded, and the and $2 million. Whitefish Bay Village Board will look at have joined forces state began conducting noise tests in Part of the difficulty in getting a wall the request at its^Sept. 6 meeting. with Glendale resi June. Results of those tests are expected i erected pn the ^ dents to have the to be completed by Sept. I. freeway reriaved. Sound barriers Now, one Whitefish Bay resident, Ronn Trouteaud Nelson, said he and his neighbors want to have been built in get a wall and get rid of the grooved Glendale on the West side of the asphalt interstate. "We would like to see both,* Nelson Repaving the freeway, many Bay and said. Glendale residents agree, would elimi Meanwhile, Glendale residents have nate "tining,* a high-pitched whine said the wall has not decreased noise created when traffic crosses the grooved, levels enough and they want the inter or grated interstate surface. state resurfaced, too. The grated surface was one of three main sources of increased noise the Bay Robert Schmidt, an engineer with the residents initially complained about. The CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 # I-C aoise is the sound of safety, DOT says homeowners near Silver phalt will get rid of the whine, Gonia acknowledged, though, Of the Common Council been trying to get the Transpor the residents told the Glendale that the state uses concrete on members, only Aid. Ray Gripen- tation Department to do some Spring exit want grooved Common Council on Monday. new and reconstructed roads, trog, who lives a few blocks from thing about noise since noise Transportation Department and often resurfaces the same the freeway,wa s convinced. barriers were erected on the west avement resurfaced officials, however, say the roads with asphalt about TO Glendale Mayor Donald side of the interchange last sum grooves — also called tines — years later. Voith argued that the city should mer. >y DAVID THOME improve traction by channeling Resurfacing the stretch in ask the Transportation Depart The Whitefish Bay residents f The Journal staff water off the banked, inclined question would cost $1 million ment to address the noise prob were powerless, however, be roadway. to $2 million. lem and let experts decide the cause the department only puts Glendale — Weary residents "A tined concrete surface is rest. up barriers if the community in /ant Interstate 43 at Silver noisiest on the day it's first open WHY NOT NOW? Gripentrog didn't think that which the roadway lies requests pring Drive resurfaced with as- to traffic," said Mike Gonia, an Dale Schmidt, of Glendale, would work: "You know how the them. Interstate 43 never enters halt to deaden traffic noise, but environmental engineer for the said he wants to know7 why as DOT operates. Ask them to con Whitefish Bay. he state Department of Trans- department. "The high-pitched phalt would be dangerous now, sider a problem, and they may Glendale officials have re ortation is hearing none of it. noise comes from the sharp edg but not 10 years from now. consider it three years down the fused to request sound barriers Dozens of Glendale and es on the grooves. Those edges "They tine the surface, not for road." for the east side of the freeway Vhitefish Bay homeowners say wear off in a year or so." safety, but to extend the life of The council voted 5-1 to have because of opposition from mer nat grooves routinely etched in- Conversely, asphalt starts out the concrete," Schmidt told the Voith and City Administrator chants on N. Port Washington •J new freeway surfaces cause an quiet and gets noisier as the sur council Monday. Richard Maslowski work on a Road. nnoying, high-pitched whine face deteriorates, Gonia said. Schmidt asked the council to resolution for discussion next The Transportation Depart lat has plagued those living up More importantly, asphalt pass a resolution urging the de month. ment is taking sound-level read 3 a mile away since the rebuilt surfaces develop ruts where wa partment to resurface 1-43 from Several Whitefish Bay resi ings in Whitefish Bay. The re: iterchange opened in late 1992. ter collects, creating hazardous just south of Henry Clay Ave. to dents grumbled as they left the suits of those tests are to be Covering the grooves vith as driving conditions, Gonia said. just north of Bender Road. meeting. Many of them have ready in about two weeks. jU^'Aui^e rA^/ff^ % Sj * Thursday, August 25, 1994 the first year, but that the grating is done for safety reasons. Concrete without the Glendale won't ask DOT grated surface often wears down quickly tended the meeting, but were not allowed and becomes very slippery when wet. to speak. Schmidt said it is typical for roadways to repave Interstate 43 Mayor Donald Voith said he favored with high speed levels, such as Interstate letting the Department of Transportation 43, to have a grated surface. RflV residents Want their take a very serious approach to this/ make the decision about the best way to Schmidt said the whining noise occurs Day lOMU^llt^ want Llltai Resident Dale Schmidt, who repre- when air gets caught in the grooves as the A quiet the noise, rather than sending the honrd tO Seek Same sented the Glendale group at the meet- resolution as stated. car tires go over the surface. He said this UUcUU IU &CC1S. 5CU11C echoed Gripentrog's statement and Gripentrog's motion to send the resol noise drops considerably after the first rprnnrQP tn redlire noise asked that the council approvethe resol- years as the rough surfaces are worn reCOUTbe lO reUUCC IlUlfcC *^ to remove the grated surface. He ution asking for removal of the fining did m not receive a second. Instead, the council away. said he probably would not have bought agreed to inform the Department of There are no definite figures available By Kimberly Wilmot-Weldman his home on Montclaire four years ago if Transportation that the noise level needs for the costs involved in replacing the tin- ing, although a rough estimate would be Staff Writer/ to be decreased. "Leave the solution to the problem to between $1 to $2 million, according to "Leave the solution to Schmidt. Glendale residents did not get the an the DOT," Voith said. "We don't care how swer to the elimination of noise that they the problem to the they do it. I think the highway depart The Whitefish Bay Village Board will were looking for Monday night. ment will get the message with a resolu look at the resolution at its meeting on A group of Glendale residents con DOT." tion or not." Sept. 6. The Department of Transporta cerned about noise from Interstate 43 re Robert Schmidt, DOT engineer, said in tion has said it will release the results of cently joined a Whitefish Bay group with Donald Voith an earlier interview that there is an in sound testing on Sept. 1. the same interests. The groups requested crease in the noise factor, especially in that their respective local governments Glendale Mayor ask the Department of Transportation to replace the grated surface of Interstate f/4A*/J 43. he had realized the sound problem. He The Glendale City Council did not ap compared the noise he hears each morn prove the specific request, despite urging ing to jet airplanes moving on a tarmac. from Alderman Ray Gripentrog. He said "It has driven people into their homes/ that he lived near the Interstate and Schmidt said. "It has effected out quality understood resident complaints. of life. The noise is disruptive. It's annoy The fining on the highway is ex H n ing, often fatiguing. tremely noisy, f^pentrog said. "I and A few Whitefish Bay residents also at my neighbors a ehement that some thing needs to be uone. I think we need to "est results on noisy interstate are expected this weeK low noisy Is the traffic from Interstate 43? White- lem. One possibility is the removal of Die fined, or bility of removing the fining because officials there i Bay residents will soon find out. grooved, surface of the road. The grooves cause a have not been asked to do so by local governments. Tie long wait is coming to an end for residents who whining noise when vehicles drive over it. "We need to have something formal," he said. "I'm not e asked the Village Board and state officials for re- Residents from Whitefish Bay and Glendale have in a position to say we would or wouldn't do it. It would from the traffic noise. A group of residents re asked officials to somehow get rid of the fining. Mem cost quite a bit." nted last spring that a sound wall be built on the bers of the Glendale Common Council recently ;t side of Interstate 43. The Department of Trans changed their resolution asking for the fining removal The groups are concerned that the noise will get lation requires that sound tests be taken to deter- to a request for relief from the noise. even louder in 1998, when another lane is added to In c if the noise exceeds certain decibel levels. Schmidt said, as far as he knows, there is only one terstate 43 from Bender to Fairy Chasm roads. Resi way to end the whining noise. "The only way to get rid dents also said that their efforts will help their neigh sts were taken in July in various places in White- of the fining noise is to get rid of the fining," Schmidt bors to the north who will suffer from the noise when Bay. The DOT plans to release the information said. "That is the bottom line." the freeway is widened. ing the first week in September, according to engi- The Whitefish Bay Village Board is expected to look "We're taking on the battle not only for ourselves, r Robert Schmidt. at the results of the sound tests and the resolution for but for Fox Point and Brown Deer," group organizer Vhile waiting for the results of the sound tests, resl- tilling removal at its Sept. 12 meeting. Dale Schmidt said. "They will be experiencing these its started looking for more solutions to'the prob Schmidt said the DOT has not looked at the possi problems in the next few years." THE HERALD SEPTEMBER 1, 1994 Page 3 q-/3r/f$? CD M a.P C-P-P2 in xa K'Q JtC:.a»Q.Cp o t 2 5" 5 W£ S o #T» CD .1!: **& 13- n»;^5 rr OQ 3 CD O O S'<" S ° ft o £- *• -2^Jj-fl \<*i cD-.-o^a. ^ ^ 0» D „"^ 5-^ I w :<; rt 1 3 « ^p « - ' CD ^ ">— -*---r' 9-5 Sta P3 3 r CD ^< S 3gw§lSo 5v *-^ >ir ^ w»- CL 3 m 3 *r> ° o *:a^ -azT.3 g %*%•«•O <» ,—. *^ «""*• *^ c& ^ «-*"3? 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The coming from Interstate 43 even grooves provide better traction though the noise is not loud for vehicles. enough to warrant sound barri ers or repaving the freeway. But Whitefish Bay residents But until then, the residents who live as much as half a mile will have to live with the whine. east of the freeway say the noise That was the conclusion of meet from tires running over the ing Monday attended by DOT grooves can be extremely irritat and Whitefish Bay officials. ing at times. Some Glendale resi The investigation is not ex dents also have complained. pected to be completed before the end of the year, Tom Mur ray, the environmental coordina Citing results of an extensive tor for the department's South noise study done last summer, eastern District, said Wednes the DOT officials said Tuesday day. that the noise did not consistent "We would do research to see ly exceed 67 decibels, the level if there any other states that have needed before the state would had similar problems and if any consider erecting sound barriers, Barrier not eligible for funding "We cannot justify the $1.5 million He and the neighborhood group v By Linda Clerkin added resurfacing cost and diminished meet soon with elected local and state I ficials to map out their next move," he News Editor __te* motorist safety benefits where the noise abatement criteria are rarely exceeded," said. Gonia said. "We are more determined than ever to The section of Interstate 43 deemedtop A seek a remedy to this problem," Schmidt noisy by some Whitefish Bay residents is v Resident upset said. not eligible for a state-funded noise bar Whitefish Bay officials asked the state rier, nor will its grooved pavement be re Art Varga, who lives in the 6100 block to study and measure noise levels at the moved or changed, the state Department of North Bay Ridge Avenue, VA blocks stretch of highway after some residents of Transportation said Tuesday. away from the freeway, called that finding complained that noise levels have in After taking more than 680 hours of "patently ridiculous." creased since work finished on the 1-43 noise measurements in 19§3%Lnd ^904- - "Tbirhak^ a^statement life that ;v; . is and Silver Spring interchange. and nearly two months to issue a report, insulting to any intelligent person," Most of the residents who complained. the DOT has determined that the east Varga said. about the noise live in a neighborhood side of the freeway between West Silver The report does not surprise him, he east of 1-43 and separated from the free Spring Drive and West Bender Road is saidv-"I- told people when they (the DOT) way by North Port Washington Road and not noisy enough by state standards to took thesound tests that we probably we a row of businesses, including Bay Shore qualify for a sound barrier. ren't gojlng to get the barrier. What we re- Mall in Glendale. **We cannot at this time justify spend allySwanted; thou^i, was the pavement ing nearly $2 million for a noise wall changed.** Glendale officials have opposed the where the exposure criteria are margi He contends that the noise created sound barrier, contending that it would nally exceeded only a few hours a year,** from9tranlc traveling over the tining is as hide from view and eventually hurt bu said Robert; Ri Packee, DOT; director for hij^ ^evei\ "Last week was the worst sinesses along the highway, including SQutiieasferh Wisconsin. > .;-eyejr^fo;sai^ ' : *Pr;:AAyy/Vp;. •; Bay Shore. Packee-^3|pfre^st^eme^Js in a re-; ^ThSleaves are fallmgofft^eitrees, so Giving Whitefish Bay a sound barrier portrelea^^ 3 V* '--';• would be unfair to other residents who "We jd^p|^pivb unlimited resources to there is less natural barrier to the noise. need one more, Packee contended. In the morning it's deafening." "To move ahead on the Whitefish Bay address these i^ occurrences," He said he and his neighbors who sup noise wall would be unfair to scores of he said in the report. port some kind of noise abatement mea Milwaukee area neighborhoods that have In,adcM^ will no longer sures will meet soon to discuss what, if waited patiently for more than a decade consider requests to resurface the anything, they will do next. for relief from much higher freeway noi°~ g^^ the Contacting local and state officials occurring on a regular daily bas subj&fbf complaints from residents who who represent Whitefish Bay will be the Packee said. say it's too noisy. group's next move, he added. He will certainly be joined by Dale Findings The findings show that .7 percent of Schmidt, his counterpart in Glendale, the measurements taken this year and who heads the Neighbors United Against The state study said: last exceeded 67 decibels, the noise 1-43 Noise Abuse. abatement criteria for residential neigh • About 680 hours of sound level borhoods, far below the level necessary Schmidt, who lives on West Montclaire measurements were taken; 135 hours for construction of a sound barrier. Avenue, just on the other side of the west before the 1-43 west side noise wall was The data also shows that part of 1-43 sound barrier, said he, too/was not sur constructed in summer and fall of 1993, was about two decibels quieter in 1994 prised by the report's conclusions. The and 545 hours after the wall was built. than in 1993, said Michael P. Gonia, en noise remains as loud as ever, though, he • Only during four hours of the gineering supervisor for the DOT'S noise said, 680-hour measurement study were abatement program v in southeastern "Four years ago, we had an asphalt neighborhood sound levels at or above Wisconsin. road there and no problem," Schmidt the state eligibility level for a sound The DOT considers noise abatement said. "They (the DOT) came into this com barrier. : ; measures, such;a^' 'th-e^c6ns]lTOcti6ii 6f munity and left us with noise pollution • At least 150 other neighborhoods sound barriers and pavement resurfac created solely by elevating the pavement along the Milwaukee area freeway system ing qnry whto^ ex- and the tining." are exposed to much higher sound levels ceed^ft^lKrej^Iar fi&sis, sa^Qpnia. The high-pitched whining sound made on a regular, reoccurring daily basis. yiy^ -to as vehicles roll over the pavement grooves Qpnia* is"wearing and becoming quieter, at high speeds is the problem, Schmidt • State-funded noise wall construc as predicted," said. "Sometimes at 9 o'clock at night, tion projects at 1-894 at Oklahoma Av you can't even hear yourself speak." enue and 1-94 at College Avenue are in neighborhoods where freeway sound levels are about 10 decibels greater than at the Whitefish Bay section of 1-43, mak ing the noise levels at the two spots nearly twice as loud. • Comparisons of tests taken in 1993 and 1994 indicate that the noise level is about 2 decibels quieter this year at the section of freeway. The state said that the finding su gests the sound barrier on the west side oi 1-43 does not reflect sound and that the tined concrete pavement is getting quie ter with use. They say they they don't need test re Residents noise measurements in 1993 and 1994 sults, they live with the noise every day. The residents don't dispute the results According to the results of those tests, th< of the tests, which concluded that White- east side of the road did not qualify for i fish Bay is not eligible for a state-funded sound barrier, based on standards listec o fight on sound barrier along the east side of 1-43, in state statutes. The statutes requir nor will the state alter or remove the that the sound exceed 67 decibels. Ac noisy, grooved highway surface. cording to the tests, the decibel limit wa Instead, the residents say, the DOT as exceeded only .7 percent of the time. over noise sessment did not truly measure the prob "The law is inappropriate for the prob lem because there was no human ele lems they are creating," said Schmidt By Kimberly Wilmot-Weldman //// ment taken into account. "This is not a matter of decibels. This is "Until a machine grows ears and until matter of frequency. The DOT is hidin Staff Writer f/CAMP /*HA they have the sensitivities of a human, behind the statute. They are hiding be this assessment can't be used," said Dale hind unacceptable criteria." Residents living near Interstate 43 say Schmidt, Glendale resident and orga The group contends that the DO they are not giving up their fight for a nizer of a group organized to solve the criteria do not necessarily apply to the! quieter neighborhood, despite a ruling problem. situation. Members say their situation 1 last week that they don't qualify for sound unique because the expressway is s protection. "No machine should tell us what we clearly feel. This is not an objective prob highly elevated, the effects of the tine They say they they don't need test re lem measured by machines. This is a surface and the area is so densely popt sults, they live with the noise every day. subjective, human problem that can only lated. "We suffer from a unique situe The residents don't dispute the results be felt. Machines don't live here, people tion," said Nelson. "It needs a uniqu of the tests, which corfcluded that White- do." solution." fish Bay is not eligible for a state-funded The residents are holding meeting sound barrier along the east side of 1-43, The group has contended for months nor will the state alter or remove the that the noise is unbearable. Residents and deciding its next step. They say th noisy, grooved highway surface. have worked with local and state officials test results released last week are not th to find a solution to the problem. White- last chapter in their fight to tone down th Instead, the residents say, the DOT as fish Bay residents have said they would highway noise in their neighborhoods. sessment did not truly measure the prob like to see a sound barrier and the tining, "Our aim is to eventually have new 1( lem because there was rib human ele or grooved road surface, removed. Glen gislative criteria passed," said Nelson. "I ment taken into account. dale residents said they would like to the interim, we will probably use th "Until a machine grows ears and until have the tining removed. they have the sensitivities of a human, courts and whatever other legal mear this assessment can't be used," said Dale Both communities approved resolu available." Schmidt, Glendale resident and orga tions asking the DOT to find a solution to The Whitefish Bay Village Board w: nizer of a group organized to solve the the problem. Currently, state Sen. Al meet this month to discuss the test n problem. berta Darling and state Rep. Polly Beal suits. The group plans to continue worl "No machine should tell us what we are trying to find an expert who will solve ing with local and state officials. clearly feel. This is not an objective prob the issue so many residents deem a "This is not over," said Schmidt. "V lem measured by machines. This is a problem. won't quit until the sound goes away. V subjective, human problem that can only "We're going to try some new tactics," will take action. The DOT has chosen be felt. Machines don't live here, people said Beal. "There are other ways to mea do nothing, while we suffer. We will se( do." sure sound, range, pitch. We'll be con other remedies to correct the problem. The group has contended for months tacting experts to give us suggestions on that the noise is unbearable. Residents what to do next. Possibly there is some have worked with local and state officials thing else we can do." to find a solution to the problem. White- The tests did not measure the noise fish Bay residents have said they would problem, residents said. They compare like to see a sound barrier and the tining, the problem to the screech noise heard or grooved road surface, removed. Glen when nails are dragged across a black dale residents said, they would like to board. The high frequency noise could have the tining removed. not be measured with traditional sound Both communities approved resolu testing equipment. "We have a 24-hour tions asking the DOT to find a solution to screech that effects 5,000 people," said the problem. Currently, state Sen. Al Whitefish Bay resident Ronn Nelson. berta Darling and state Rep. Polly Beal The DOT took more than 680 hours of are trying to find an expert who will solve the issue so many residents deem a problem. "We're going to try some new tactics," said Beal. "There are other ways to mea sure sound, range, pitch. We'll be con tacting experts to give us suggestions on what to do next. Possibly there is some thing else we can do." The tests did not measure the noise ^noblem, residents said. They compare - problem to the screech noise heard :n nails are dragged across a black bird. The high frequency noise could not be measured with traditional sound testing equipment. "We have a 24-hour screech that effects 5,000 people," said lb Bay to discuss 1-43 noise abatement By UMBEfcJCE SUSSMAN ment. State officials say the 6fThe(iourna>'Staff grooves are needed to provide better traction on wet surfaces, Whitefish Bay — The Village and that the noise should lessen Board's Health Committee will as the grooves are worn. meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at The department also was Whitefish Bay High School to checking to see if other states discuss what the village might do experienced this problem and to lessen the high-pitched whin what they have done about it. ing noise from Interstate 43 But many residents don't north of Silver Spring Drive. want to wait, including members The meeting is being held at of a group called Neighbors the high school, 1200 E. Fair- United Against 1-43 Noise mount Ave., because more than Abuse. In a press release, the 100 people are expected, Village group says that "until a machine President James Gormley said grows ears and until that ma Wednesday. chine has the keen complex sen The committee wants to see if sitivities and nervous system of a the village can come up with human being," the noise tests are some creative solutions indepen useless. dent of the state Department of The residents want the state Transportation, he said. Resi to remove the grooves and re- dents have been frustrated at the pave the freeway with asphalt. lack of direct options for the Sheldon Wasserman, the re village. scr, cently elected state representa In late October, after 680 tive for the area, has written to hours of sound testing, the de this group and pledged "to stop partment concluded that the this noise frequency problem noise was not loud enough to and to restore the affected com warrant repaving or erecting munities back to a level of peace sound barriers. Much of the and quiet that they have previ noise comes from vehicles riding ously enjoyed and justly de "We're being over grooves in the 1-43 pave serve." inundated with noise pollution beyemd tolerable levels/' Dale Schmidt Group Organizer r- Residents form group passed in Glendale and Whitefish : /Bay .that ask the' Department'of to fight 1-43 "Transportation to find a solution to traffic noise the noise problem.. It was also-in strumental in having Fox Point pass Klmberiy Wllmot-Wcldman "If I took this noise and recorded it and I played it back in the residen ^.resolution asking the DOT to use Staff Writer tial neighborhoods of the DOT engi materials and methods that wilLmi- nimize noise when they expand 1-43 neers that built this," he said/ "I l A group of North Shore residents would be arrested for disturbing the- in the near future. have banded together to try to fight peace within an hour. People ate . The one item the group has not Interstate 43 noise. suffering. We can't have a BaAd Aid. ^hadsuccess in is getting the results The group, Neighbors United ..on this. We need major surgery,,?'> of sound-tests taken in Whitefish Against 1-43 Noise Abuse, was origi The group was originally; Wrmetf ;,Bay< earlier this summer./The DOT nally formed to get sound barriers to get sound barriers?!erectedSiri ;,haclpromised toxelease the data on built in Glendale. Glendale. That accomplis^ed;^tri& -Sept, \\s ,a„ deadline that's been But residents from Whitefish Bay group's aim now is to sometio^get' ?ir ^ssed^by' now, over a a month de- and Fox Point have joined the group' the tined, or grooved, surfaceof the '' ^P^mterventioii by local and state ' hoping to quell noise from the inter interstate repaved to reduce traffic officials. >o . , state in those.communities, too. noise in all three communities* . Village President James Gormley "We organized to get this solved - Whitefish Bay residents still want recently spoke with Rep. 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North side of bridge (westbound lanes) being torn down. #2 - Same view but looking south under bridge, The concrete rubble is lying in the river. #3 - Looking west across the river. River being di verted as much as possible away from the rubble. #3 1)X/2JA> A^*6 *% ^0 ^ X - V^ Jkfi£jJ*± \a«i.l, I'96>8-M^'de^U ALfxzoeJ' &. &&**. Ap*& £fr- ' $A™, **)- a/ QjAtA. frw^t- 42* . (oJ jUf+ »p£.c Zejrt'<*7 fi^W4tAt*>^ ^ A±l^ £p*A^&» A A*A/fL a*u# X4u. ^U4^u*rt»JUL(ait T&p ^^rtUaJL U* T~4A) "^UuJ^Jy^iclf^/'X^Z>. 7Mim ihi^j 3 project on schedule weeks of creeping between the This deadline was extended until marker barrels clustered around the Aug. 6 because an additional 500-foot intersection of North Port Washing section along northbound Port ton Road and West Silver Spring Washington Road was deteraiihed to Drive should end early next week. be badly deteriorated and in need of That's when road construction replacement, Miklas said. crews are expected to restore the To deal with this unexpected addi split-lane traffic flow, said site- tional work, the contractor "brought supervisor Adrian Miklas. extraordinary forces in," Miklas said. Drivers should still be alert. Work Crews will work 12 to 16 hours a day, crews will still be in the area, finish if necessary, to finish on time, he said. ing the curbs, gutters and crossovers,' he said. Renovation work on Interstate 43 The original contract allowed con and the Silver Spring Drive inter tractors until July 26 to complete the change is proceeding on schedule, road work on Port Washington and Miklas said. Silver Spring around the Interstate The two-year, $25 .million state 43 access ramps. After that, if the re project, now in its second year, should surfacing is not complete, they would be completely finished by the Dec. 5 be fined $2,500 a day. deadline, he said. Bay residents concerned ^bou * By Jerry C.Smith Ken Graham, project manager for the A handful of Whitefish Bay residents engineering firm hired by DOT to design Glendale's left the village limits recently to voice their Glendale's sound barriers, said about 86 oncerns about /Gl^j^de's. noise, •;>•:• .• I^J^ people showed up.at the meeting, with a Not only were noise levels a big concelnL., good portion of those being Whitefish Bay to Glendale at a July 9 informational meet residents. l noise ing with the Department of Transortatioh, " "We had a good turnout and everybody they concerned residents in the 6100 block was willing to listen to the proposals* Gra of Lydell Ave. in Whitefish Bay as well. ham said. "This is about the usual turnout The public was invited to the informal for an informational meeting such as this tional meeting to discuss potential noise one. We were just trying to get input barriers on the west side of 1-43 from Ben today." der Road to Silver Spring Drive in Glendale. The input from Whitefish Bay Whitefish Bay residents in attendance were concerned the noise from the freeway residents in attendance seemed to lean Murray assured Whitefish Bay would bounce off the proposed sound bar toward building asound barrier on the east residents the Department of Transporta rier and affect residents on the east side, side of 1-43 because of the potential noise tion would evaluate the remarks from the particularly those living in the 6100 block bouncing off the wall on the west side, even informational meeting in Glendale and of Lydell. if the wall blocked the view of the busines give the same amount of time evaluating ses on Port Washington Road. Whitefish Bay's concerns. Harigan seemed Tom Murray, representing the Graham said there was no need for that satisfied with that pledge. Division of Highways at the meeting, concern because of the type of building ma "I would expect that the same considera fielded questions-from the concerned terial used in the sound barriers. tions will be given to the residents on "The sound barrier on the west side of/ Lydell as were given to those on the west Whitefish Bay rew^ the freeway would absorb the majority of side of 1-43," Harrigan concluded. the sound," Graham said, "The only lage Manager Michael Harrigan. Murray amount that bounces off is half a decibel, said the concern about the sound bouncing studies have shown. It's a significant gff the sound barrier in Glendale has reduction." prompted the Department of Transporta- • tion to evaluate noise levels in Whitefish Graham also said sound levels were al 'bay.. .•-:•;;/ ready recorded on homes on Lydell Avenue "Because Whitefish %y residents and most were below the levels needed to ^AAtef showed up at the informatiorial meeting in build a sound barrier. <*ndale, the Department? of IVansporta- will evaluate their remarks on the "We've looked at sound levels and at 7~% IS 9ci- iiti9nTH E MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Journal photo by Gary Porter REBUILDING THE I-43/SILVER SPRING INTERCHANGE has new interchange is farther from those homes than increased noise tor residents to the east. While the before, it now sits above natural noise barriers. Wednesday December 16,tl992 Parking ban designed to ease congestion off 1-43 in Glendale By DAVE THOME store has few off-street parking of The Journal staff spaces, and the owners of the Taco Bell restaurant next door have said Glendale -r- Motorists shouldn't it's all right for liquor store patrons have to worry anymore about get to use that lot. ting stuck behind parked cars when Dan Flaugh, co-owner of Jhe exiting 1-43 at N. Port Washington liquor store, said customers have Road. gotten used to not parking on Port In accordance with the state De Washington Road, which has been partment of Transportation's wish under construction for most of this es, the Common Council has year. banned parking on the east side of The Transportation Depart Port Washington Road from W. ment had requested the parkirtg Silver Spring Drive to just south of ban because drivers exiting the the off-ramp. freeway got into the far right lane, ,. The ban eliminates a 15-minute only to find themselves behind parking zone that was used primar parked vehicles. ily by customers of North Shore The problem was especially vex \W Wine & Spirits, officials said. The ing during the evening rush hour. / ion of interchange depen SyJACIGARDELL Spring Drive." Sentinel staff writer 7 The?rebuilt interchange will be. 1-43 Silver Spring area could be pa^eJMp days blonic in its improvements — The only thing that could pre down one lane of northbound bigger, stronger, faster. vent^ the completion tff construc traffic on 1-43 and move the ex v "When drivers git to the top of tion on the 1-43 Silver Spring isting northbound lanes, now in "Drivers can see each otherT)elfef, they, "the on-ramps, they'll see. how Drive interchange in the next the southbound section of the can accelerate faster. I just hpp# they don't much better the new^interchange week, project engineer Adrian highway, east to their.new home. is," JMiklas said. "The merge lanes Miklas said, is a hard freeze. The southbound lanes^wili remain go too fast." , -* - are how. 1,000 feet. They were Guess what. where they have been since con-~„ % A J* '-*.* /! /*>L /L " — ADRIAN MIKLAS 300. Drivers can sfee each other The National Weather Service struction began. ~ ^ " * ' JU^t&c^ *y£//9&& project engineer betfer^tjiey can accelerate faster. predicts temperatures will drop According to Miklas?the~ whole I just Iio]f| they don^t go too fast." into the mid-teens by Friday and move should take less than four jSjalTfetes as scheduled, Miklas will .stay there iihroughout the hours. T#o northbound* lanes three 12-foot .langs^on the north plish by^Wednesday. ,~'^- \~ """ fees can be optimistic the weekend, providing the one thing should be open Dy^uslf hour and southbound* sides," Miklas "Rr^^lidpen^up the idrtW flthat is knowa as Silver highway workers dread: ground Thursday night* Cohstftutetion said, "and 10-foot shoulders on bound^^&fe on Ppr£ Washing-; ffe will go away soon, too hard to pour payeiriecj- ^ workers will still oceupylM ine- \ both the inside and outside." ton R^^miafe?Md/"All weff [cfalj thing that could pre But until tho>se cold winds dian area, working cm removing. The next move, Miklas says, have to do, there is repair a stop vent the ^completion of construe- blow, Miklas is ^ticking to His barriers and filling in the shoul will be to open up the exit and light. The fast ramp.we'll com tioais a hard freeze," Miklas said. schedule. Startltig' at 9 .'.'a.m.! ders, v + , - entrance ramps at Silver Spring plete" will be the sbuthbbui^ *It\?|let a hard freeze, then we Thursdajf, workers^ will close "Eventually, what we'lthave is Drive. This he hopes to aecom- ramp' to 1-43 from West Silver" 1w$ii mrtife ground to thaw." / ? -\ x>i 1-43 construction Get ready, drivers — at 0 constru repairs are almost over J5S?iKf °l * A ction site at f-43 and Stiver Spring Drive despite the ^VlTn^A^T^^T^ newconcrete wd. PS«c?whfchffid fn ffi K^ ?f ° uThe Pro'ectwin not meet ite Dec 5 deadline but should be fin Ml be smooth cruisin' Meanwhile, southbound traffic ished by mid-December, the construction supervisor said Monday will continue along the same two before Christmas comes, outside lanes it has been following (Staff photo by Mary Caianese-Pugens) for months. Project engineer Adri if all goes well an Miklas says not to worry if the going seems a little rough for nov^. Road project will miss deadline, By DAVID THOME South- and north-bound motorists of The Journal staff alike should be breezing down the ! permanent lanes before Christmas. *1 mid-December finish now eyed Glendale — Hey, Interstate 43- Before that can happen, howev- * The holidays could come a bit early sucb as theneed to acquire the Scrub- Silver Spring Drive-gazers, here's er, crews have to take out the tern- * for businesses, shoppers and people a-Dub car wash site, put tbe project the latest on your favorite inter porary cross-over lanes and put in * justpassing through the construction slightly behind schedule, In^ersen change: the hot tan-colored, concrete divid- < site for #be Interstate 43-Silver said. Sources inside Waukesha, the ers that will permanently separate Spring interchange. freeway construction capital of cars cruising in both directions. 5 The areajhas been in disarray for By the end of next week, the north southeastern Wisconsin, say to ex bound lanes will be moved to their Things are expected to really the past two years as the state De pect several big moves in anticipa heat up by Dec. 9, when the new partment of Transportation has new location, and the norttibund exit and entrance ramps off North tion of a gala pre-holiday opening northbound on- and off-ramps are % worked to rebuild the major North of the long-awaited, new and im to be unveiled, < Shore traffic hub. Port Washington Road will be ; opened, and work on the Park and proved roadway. The ever-cautious Miklas hinted The ^nd will come none to soon for The first exciting development most people who travel through the Bide lot will begin, he said* that the new southbound on-ramp j is due Wednesday, when Wiscon — the last piece of the puzzle! — y< area on a regular basis* Two to three weeks later, the sin Department of Transportation By mid-December, the freeway's could make its first appearance by *! northbound loop exit ramp for traffic moguls plan to move northbound Dec. 17. northbound lanes will be moved back westbound on Silver Spring and the to their new location and the en traffic onto two northbound lanes. Of course, an appearance of the southbound entrance ramp from There'll no pain without gain, stuff that Santa drives on could trance and exit ramps will be opera ^ver Spring, will be open, he said though — some motorists may tional, saM Charles Ingwersen, con Opening these ramps and traffic gum up the works. struction supervisor &$t the DOTs find the going slow when north "We're lucky we haven't had a lanes does not mean that all the work bound traffic is limited to a single District 2 office- on the project is over, however. hard freeze yet," Miklas says. The construction schedule for the lane for parts of Tuesday and Seems you just can't pour pave Crews will return next spring to Wednesday. two-year, $25 million renovation pro put down the permanent paint- ment on frozen or wet ground. ject originally called for the work to markings, finish some median work be completed by Dec, 5. ma add the final touches — lots of However*; recent rainy weather aem^sailB^versen—tothenew plus some originally unforseen work, Park and Ride lot L NQy£M£ER 19,1992 Page 3 S> Glendale TALL WALL But Burt Trouteaud, secretary of The computer also projected the Glendale Business Council Residents near 1-43 that homes on N. Jean Nicolet said his group wanted the state to Road would endure the worst sonic wait at least six months after con assault if no wall were built. A wall struction is completed before tak 14 feet high would cut the noise ing any action. about 10 decibels, to the volume of "Right now, all of the traffic is give DOT an earful normal conversation in a room on the southbound lanes," he said. Interstate 43 was farther from where the television was on, said "We should wait until everything John Jaeckel, HNTB's principal gets back to normal so that things Issue of sound barriers his property until it was moved are done right." about 200 feet west last year. An engineer for environmental quality. draws voices with many area of trees and shrubs that served Cybela said that if it were up to Graham just kept calm and took opinions to se$swrT^^- as a sound buffer no longer exists. his neighbors and himself, today it all in. This, he said, is the how "I don't know who'd be against would not be too soon for a sound these things usually go. putting up a wall," Cybela said, barrier to go up. ByDAVID THOME / "but they don't live anywhere near RThe Journal staff \ / me." Glendale — For the Wisconsin Mel Behling is against putting Department of Transportation to up a wall. And, in a way, Behling, please all the people all the time, it whose home on N. River Forest would have to put up a 14-foot- Drive is across the Milwaukee Riv high sound barrier on Interstate 43 er from the freeway, doesn't live from W. Silver Spring Drive to W. anywhere near Cybela. Sound walls may tear out Bender Road that is three feet high, "You get used to the noise, painted any color but green, brown Behling said. "You don't even hear or gray, and is never built. As soon as possible. it. It won't be so bad when the interstate's shoulders Having already taken heat over construction is done; 90% of the Glendale — Talk about your wall is anchored by a concrete base the color of sound barriers south of noise you hear out there now is Excedrin headaches. that extends under the pavement. the I-43/Silver Spring interchange, from the construction. The political wrangling over Since affixing a 12- or 14-foot the department held an open meet "I've been at the same address proposed sound barriers on 1-43 sound barrier would reduce the ing Wednesday to find out what for 32 years, and with the new from W. Silver Spring Drive to W. wall's ability to withstand a crash, people thought of building barriers height of the freeway and all the Bender Road is but a little owie north of the interchange as well. foliage they've put in, it's a lot the base would have to be enlarged. better than it ever was." compared to the migraine brought Jaeckel said the cost of installing And just about everybody who on by the potential engineering and sound barriers was usually around lives anywhere near the three-quar Several Whitefish Bay residents financial hassles. $18 per square foot. That would ter-mile stretch of freeway had at the meeting said they wanted two walls. The cost of materials is not a mean the cost of putting up a 14- something to say. problem, said John Jaeckel, an en foot-high barrier from Riverview to "I don't care what color they Ken Graham, project manager gineer for the architectural design Bender would be as much as paint it, as long as it reaches the for HNTB, the architectural firm firm of HNTB. All of the materials $504,000. sky," said Jeffrey Cybela, who lives hired by the DOT to design a — wood, concrete, metal and Add another $150,000 for a 3- on W. Montclaire Ave., justa few sound barrier, said that, according sound-absorbent plastic foam — foot-high wall from Silver Spring to dozen feet from the interstate's new to computer projections, building a cost about the same, he said. Riverview, and the project begins southbound lanes. wall on the west side of the freeway But installing a barrier tall to get a little pricey. "If you try to have a conversa would not result in enough noise to enough to significantly reduce tion in my back yard," Cybela said, warrant installing a barrier on the Jaeckel said the cost would al east side as well. noise north of W. Riverview Drive most undoubtedly exceed $18 per "you have to shout." could require ripping up the shoul square foot, so there's no telling Using a sound-absorbent mate der of the southbound lanes that rial similar to that already in use how expensive the project could near Mitchell Airport would pre were just completed last spring. end up beings vent most of the rebound effect, The problemJ&^thatJheL_crash__x^ y~^ "\- David Thome Graham said. Glendale f4i-/m Bay Shore intersection joins 1-43 in a face lift will be on the north side of the of Black River Falls, the general Police Department the authority to roadway. contractor for the project, permis halt construction if a lot of resi At the same time, Port Wash sion to work through the night up dents complain about noise. Glendale — The Wisconsin De ington Road — from Security to 25 times during the second Lunda is required to give at partment of Transportation is giv Bank on the south to First Wiscon- phase. least 24 hours notice before work ing the intersection of W. Silver sin-Bayshore on the north — will Last year the contractor, Mann ing at night. Miklas said it was Spring Drive and N. Port Washing be restricted to two northbound Bros, of Elkhorn, asked for permis unlikely that night work would ton Road a makeover Thursday lanes and one southbound lane. All sion to work overnight up to 20 have to be done on the freeway, but night. three lanes will be on the east side times, but worked during only 12 several nights might be needed dur Crews are scheduled to start of the existing roadway. or 13 nights, said Adrian Miklas, ing June and July for work at Port Washington and Silver Spring. changing around the traffic lanes at The intersection is being resur project engineer for the Transpor 8 p.m. Thursday and have every tation Department. Construction crews will normal faced in conjunction with the sec ly work from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. this thing in place for the start of the ond phase of the reconstruction of morning rush hour Friday. When it granted permission last year, Miklas said. Last year, crews the Interstate 43-Silver Spring in week, the council stipulated that worked from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. to Until mid-June, Silver Spring terchange. between the Milwaukee River and the noisiest construction be done make up for a delay of several N. Iroquois Ave. will be restricted Meanwhile, the Common Coun during the day. The council also weeks caused by the Bavarian Inn's to one lane in each direction; both cil has given Lunda Construction gave Mayor Donald Voith and the fight with the state over land. OO The McTntoshes hoped to relo TuSsday July 14,1992 cate the Scrub-A-Dub to 5520 N. .Poll Washington, but that plan was vehemently opposed by nearby home and business owners, includ- ejendale ing^jhe couple who own the Sir W|$£r car wash at that address. J$ithout the zoning ordinance fwash chlige, however, Scrub-A-Dub cannot open anywhere in Glendale. 7||Ve're disappointed because ivfn the we*ve been in Glendale a long at &0' fne. time," Kelley Mc Intosh told The Joiteial. *We wanted to be close to ourald location, for our customers. TM$ve been asking us,''When are 9 ; yoig^mingback?^ - \^€^mlmn i let :;:AM^ <&* not say whether Scrub? • \($spla^ed business &Dub Would try to find another :Site||ri the North Shore. The Mc ^relocdie in city Intoshes own other car washes in the Milwaukee area. BpAYpTHOM^ WA jDf \he Journal stafj , ; WA^NG FROM LAWYER j J? Attorney Alan Marcuvitz, who Glen4ale — There won't be a j « repri^iiited Scrub-A-Dub, told al- * Scrur>Ai-Dub car wash on N. Port j Sderrph that tlie ordinance change i Washington "Road, or anywhere ! ; woufej^be benefic&f to the city in ; else in Glendale. the long run because state law pro " ThefCommon Council voted, hibited any governmental unit 5-0, I^onday to reject a zoning from exercising "eminent domain" ordinance change that would have for public projects without provid allowed banned businesses to relo ing a. location cpmjparable to the cate in the city if they were closed bldbne. jp make way for public projects. % Without the change* he said, the #wqelrs of prohibited businesses !r Th£ ordinance prohibits 26 who did not want to move out of JypesSpf businesses, including car Glendale could block important r!wa$h§s; from opening at new loca tions 'within the city. -Firms that i existed before the ordinance was "& CftuCk Adarri> who lives in the ;|)asse^ are allowed to continue op ^00!||pck of N. Iroquois Ave., erating at their current locations. ^hindithe proposed Scfub-ArDub t' Scrub-A-Pub, which had ^beetj site, said he collected 139 sigha- -at Pop Washington arid W. Silver $#$s;;^p: a petition drive against ? Spring Drive for 14 years, closed &rubiA-Dub and the proposed or- £this yfcar after the owners reached a dinahe^ change. 'deal with the state that cleared the .rrn Thftjproposed new Scrub-A-Dub s way for the second phase of re location would have extended east building the Interstate 43/§ilyer item Port Washington Road, into \ Spring Interchange. -^yifieslJJenttol area on Iroquois; *. The owners,-a corporation head Hdwever, passing the ordinance edby GarTeri and KeUey Mc In* diahgeiSspuld not have guaranteed tosh,; received !;$4.1 million from that Scrub-A-Dub could have the state for tlie car wash and a moved to the site. Union 76 gas station at the site. //' il&ilm^ fOCUS Oil ^W new alfgnmenFoiCtK^tree to •^^,^'*^.^"' r^ ' wavway., which ant «nmsome« nnintpoints ntnnalongc ; its westerly curve' toward the • •J.-. t Milwaukee River is 175 feet yrest; of the original,is not What some* Jj*'.l^4$wor.. ._. k.,„,. , f residents expected, according to! > v'. yGlendal )••'• .•••••.•r.j-/-:<>.--.-.'^e \ ~ They StatbAMXF*e Depart - j •thep<^^^ | iment of Transportation has* ft Parts» of the hew- freeway J scheduled a meeting to ansWerj alignment also are higher £ than i questions about the $25 million. the old 1-43, thfOOT said. ;?1 | Silver' Spring Drive interchange : Because the changes created project on Interstate 43- 11$"-|'^H- t new concerns for residents, the % VThe DOT Will hold the meetifag} city* legislators, the DOT and its at 7 p.tn. Feb. 20 to the Common} consultant on the project will lis ^Council chambers, 5909 N* Mil- j ten to residents' ideas on sound- ! waukee River Parkway,! to ad- barrier plans and filial landscap ; dress final design elements of the ing plans at the meeting.'; ^: j reconstruction project. % •y • < • After gathering information at • The first of two years of work the public hearing, the DOT will • on the freeway was completed develop final design plans. ;<* MILWAUKEE SENTINEL Friday, February 21f1992 6A * i-43 light tovversdraw complaints in Glendale By MIKE KING ; A treme eyesore and a public intru reasons to the use of any walls. Sentinel correspondent >••?- ; sion onto private property.", "If we have to have these Each light tower replaced 20 walls, why do they have to be Glendale — While reconstruc conventional 50-foot; light poles., painted such a bilious green," one tion work on the Interstate 43 The new poles are a safety im resident asked Packee.'"I've nev Interchange at West Silver Spring > provement, State Department of er seen such a hideous color in all Drive may solve some old prob Transportation District Director, , my life." , . 'v-. !::•'••.• v .. lems for motorists, residents liv Robert R. Packee said^i v ;•.,>•/.. ing nearby say it is causing a new r Other residents who lived out . Problems with the lights could of sight of the highway, however, ; set of problems for them. ! favored them for noise reduction. ! About 100 residents attended be solved when rubberized; an informational meeting, on the shields are installed in late spring' Some noise barriers have al i project at the Glendale. City Hall ., or early summer, Packee said. ready been installed isouth, of Sil 1 Thursday night to address the Residents' disagreed over the ver Spring Drive. The new noise i final design element? of the proj- t proposed use of noise barrier barrier walls would be built only '. ect. i1 walls along the highway between if the City of Glendale requested Silver Spring and West Bender : Their major concern was glare v them. \ •. ; at nearby homes caused by the Road.. '^y>i;^yi \v^ /;v,.'" '••'.• The state will pay all costs for ; 120-foot high-mass light towers DOT drawings displayed at the the construction and maintenance ; installed at the interchange. meeting called for walls ranging of the walls if they are requested. "If I wanted to see stadium in height from 3 feet to more The $25 million project is now lighting every time I walked out than 12 feet. The drawings also 30% to 35% complete, Packee of my house, I would have moved showed possible landscaping and said. He said construction would next to County Stadium/* said tree plantings along the walls. < continue into 1993 because of de Kris Jenson, of 1030 W, River Some residents living along the lays caused by weather and prob view Drive, Glendale, "It's an ex highway objected, for aesthetic lems with property acquisition. •'. '•..< ••••"' •'.': -• y'; •• ^i:i'>j)*y>t-'y • \W> Glendale 3/&//79A State agrees to alter offending freeway who answered a Transportation Residents' gripes about Department survey did. lights, landscaping and Department officials have said that the wall would fade and at barriers get attention least partially be hidden by trees and other plants. If that isn't good By DAVID THOME enough, officials have said, the wall of The Journal staff could be painted. A department survey of home Glendale — The Wisconsin De owners north of Silver Spring and partment of Transportation prom west of the freeway found that 81% ises dimmer lights and greener pas wanted a noise barrier from Silver tures to residents who are dis Spring to Bender Road, and 48% pleased with the way the Interstate wanted the barrier to be 12 to 14 43-Silver Spring Drive interchange feet high; 37% wanted it to be 6 has shaped up so far. feet high; and 15% wanted it to be In response to complaints about 3 feet high. bright lights, noise and bad land Most of those who wanted a scaping, the department an 6-foot barrier live on N. Jean Nico nounced this week that it intended let and N. Park Roads, in an area to make several changes, including: where some residents have ex • Elimination of one light tow pressed concern about whether the er on the freeway between W. current 3-foot barrier would stop a Bender Road and W. Lexington large truck from crashing into their Blvd. and shortening all of the 150- homes. foot towers to 100 feet. All light towers will be on the east side of No ONE WANTED GREEN BARRIER the freeway. Eighty-three percent of those • Addition of shields to pre surveyed wanted the barrier to be vent light from spilling into resi "earth-tone brown," and 17% pre dential areas near the freeway. ferred gray. No one wanted the • Planting more trees and barrier to be bright green. shrubs next to the freeway and on grades running to the Milwaukee Each of the changes has a price River. tag. A 12- to 14-foot-tall noise bar rier from Silver Spring to Bender • Widening a sidewalk on the would add $1.5 million to the cost south side of the Silver Spring of the two-year interchange project, bridge over the river. officials said. Robert Packee, director for the department's 2nd District, said in a Changing lights would add letter to Glendale officials that the $70,000; improving landscaping, state also would work with resi $40,000; and widening sidewalks, dents to develop noise barriers that $5,000. people could live with. The project originally was bud Residents south of Silver Spring geted at $22 million. With the pro and west of the river wanted a posed changes and the cost of set noise barrier, but almost everyone tling a land dispute with the Bavar in the area hated the bright green ian Inn, the total cost would ap wall installed last month. Everyone proach $27 million. lAI yiuio> -(hu^^Ji rf/v/ffi Interstate highway Work makes 1-43 a tough destination iccess between Locust 1-43 TO SILVER SPRING: Closed until Thursday May 14, 1992 * about May 1. When the ramp re St and Good Hope opens, left turns onto eastbound Road is restricted Silver Spring will be prohibited un Glendale til August. By DAVID THOME SOUTHBOUND ON-RAMP FROM SIL of The Journal staff VER SPRING: Closed until Decem ber. Car wash's ftiture Glendale — You need to get INTERSECTION OF SILVER SPRING onto the freeway, but your usual AND N. PORT WASHINGTON ROAD: on-ramp is closed. So you go a few Repaving began this week and is controlled by plans blocks north, only to find that on- scheduled to be finished in August. ramp closed as well. The state Department of Transpor So, you drive to the next main tation's plan is to keep two lanes to expand new site street, but that street has no on- open in both directions on Port ramp. Suddenly, you're in The Con Washington Road at all times, though the presence of work crews struction Zone. 7 Scrub-A-Dub hoping for zoning change The freeway is only 100 yards and heavy equipment may make away, but no on-ramp is in sight. for slow going. Silver Spring may at building it wants for relocation ... Nightmare On Silver Spring be reduced to one lane at times, however. By DAVID THOME II The Transportation Depart of The Journal staff The second phase of rebuilding ment suggests that drivers who the Interstate 43-Silver Spring want to go north on 1-43 enter at Glendale — Scrub-A-Dub Carwash's hopes of con Drive interchange has made it im Good Hope, and that those whp tinuing to do business here now hinge around a plan to possible to get onto northbound want to avoid construction on Port buy and expand another car wash. 1-43 between W. Locust St. and W. Washington Road should take N. But the plan itself hinges on getting the Common Green Bay Ave. to Good Hope. ! Council to change zoning ordinances to allow building • Good Hope R;o^per^My be a hew car wash and convincing nearby homeowners tween now and November, maybe that the expanded car wash won't ruin their neight December. hood. Getting onto the freeway south- Scrub-A-Dub was forced to close its operation at W. jound also may be problematic at Silver. Spring Drive and N. Port Washington Road to times. make room for new on- and off-ramps at the Interstate To compound the misery, the 43-Silver Spring i nterchange. main city streets in the area also Finding a new location hasn't been easy, Scrub-A- will be under construction. Dub's attorney, Alan Marcuvitz said. Here are the specifics: After looking at several sites, Scrub-A-Dub signed a NORTHBOUND ON-RAMP AT SILVER contract to buy Sir Waxer at 5520 N. Port Washington SPRING DRIVE: Closed since Mon Road. The sale, however, is contingent upon Scrub-A- day and will be closed for the dura Dub's ability to get the zoning changed and the Plan tion of the project. Commission to approve its plans. NORTHBOUND OFF-RAMPS FROM People who live behind Sir Waxei* in the 5500 block 1-43 TO E. SILVER SPRING DRIVE.- of N. Iroquois Ave. were at Monday's Common Coun Closed until November. cil meeting to oppose any expanded car wash. Parking NORTHBOUND ON-RAMPS AT W. lots and driveways now buffer their neighborhood from ATKINSON AND W. FIEBRANTZ AVES.: businesses facing Port Washington Road. Closed from 2 to 7 p.m. weekdays to limit the amount of traffic The residents, citing concerns over noise and ex through the interchange. The Fie- haust, called the proposed expansion an intrusion" into brantz on-ramp serves motorists their neighborhood. who want to get from W. Capitol Marcuvitz asked them not to make up their minds Drive to northbound 1-43. until they saw the plans at a public meeting tentatively SOUTHBOUND ON-RAMP AT GOOD set for the last week of May. HOPE: Closed intermittently until What the residents think, though, will be irrelevant early May. if the zoning ordinance is not changed because the city SOUTHBOUND OFF-RAMP FROM considers car washes a non-conforming use of land. But Marcuvitz's proposed change Would allow any business displaced by a public project to relocate within the. city with Plan Commission and Common Council approv al. . ..',.:, If the commission approves his proposal, the cou*. cil will hear the matter before voting on it. \v> no "But when you see something on a sample, it-doesn't always have Barrier/Screen the same effect as it does on a big expanse. It's like when you paint your living room walls. You don't to stop noise always get exactly what you ex pect." is rather loud Would transportation officials repaint the structure if more people From page 1 complained? "To be very frank, we've consid one, called the new structure easy ered the possibility," Murray said. on the eyes and even easier on the "But these things weather. And ears. don't forget, there'll be some plant- - "What's wrong with green?" de ing later on. manded Kampen, who lives a few Its distinctive color notwith- doors away from La Coste on Iron- standing, the new barrier features wood. "Grass is green. Money is ;r green. the same sound-absorbing cement "And it's so quiet! I can actually { and wood shavings as more con turn my TV on in the morning and ventional ones, including the half- hear it without turning it all the mile stretch under construction be way up. This summer, we'll actual tween Layton and Grange Aves. ly be able to sit out in the back yard along 1-94. and talk to each other," Those walls will be brown, Tom Murray, district environ which is just fine with homeowner mental coordinator for the Trans Frank Wright. * • portation Department, said he had "They picked a good color," received two complaints and sever said Wright, whose property on al compliments on the quarter-mile 15th Place, just east of the highway, barrier. gives him an expansive view of the Asked why the new walls were construction. green, rather than the more com "Have you seen that one up on mon gray or brown, Murray ex the north side, the green one?" plained that transportation offi Wright asked. "It looks like hell." cials, after consulting with land scape architects at Milwaukee's Graef Anhalt Schloemer & Associ ates, had decided that green would blend more easily into the sur roundings, which are not far from Lincoln Park. As for the particular shade of green, which is noticeable from .both the neighborhood and the highway, Murray said it was "not intentional." "We looked at many, many paint samples," he said. "We tried to stay away from the pastels, the Easter-egg colors. j§£|! It's not Gr Journal photo by Dale Guidan SOME NEIGHBORS of a sound Darner along 1-43 near Glendale Road say it's the "Green Monster/' but others like the vernal shade. fiat's wrong with green? Grass is green. Utoney is By^GfANMEWEINrRAUB "When they talked about putting up Green Monster.' Well, when they turn the green/' • of The Journal staff barriers, I thought they meant wooden lights on this wall at night, it looks just ones," said La Coste, whose N. Ironwood like that. It's like you're living next to a Jlendale^How does Bruce La Coste Lane house lies in the shadow of the stadium." like mrWggreen wails that loom between interstate. "But this? Look at the color. Fuller noted that his house at the end4 his back yard and 1-43? It's just not natural." of W. Rock Place, perpendicular to 1-43, The answer is not black and white — Unnatural is among the kinder things gave him and his family a view of the rhey loo though that color scheme actually might some Glendale residents have called the emerald walls from almost every window. be an improvement, in La Coste's eyes. walls, which are 16 to 18 feet high, a "It's such an ugly, ugly green," he said. garbage. Look at the "They reduce the sound, but they look quarter-mile long and the approximate "It's the ugliest sight I've ever seen in my like garbage," La Coste said this week of hue of a St. Patrick's Day party hat. life." color. It's just not the new noise barriers, which were erected "Have you ever been to Fenway Park But not everyone minds the greening natural." by the state Department of Transporta in Boston?" asked John Fuller, who owns of the neighborhood. Carol Kampen, for tion along the west side of the highway a home about 25 feet from the freeway. Bruce La Coste between Glendale and Hampton Aves. "They have a wall there they call 'the Please see Barrier page 6 % y(AdU4 &AielA^ t 'TVLVl %^C •S'ol™/'^ ^enH^te food * dee*™*. fcrLf'ji Tkfrf. Q-ft^a <*«ol Po^ u)aaMl^e-h^-- A&&-A • S l^x^ bpA^-g Ahus*- /Mr & A^A^^U^^^^L yAt) a^t^ut A^[93o'^- &U /A* yht &AAJUAAJ- cA^Ave - .^ - /^uAi^ m A**^ A*, 7Au- £4eo AAstAk Ji&< &*., Al w> 5Y 6a^cc *, 1*14 ^LeA^u 4Jb**teJ 4/ Steve* SP#/AJ$ nfiive I ULnt'tn lb V*| And SeAJttr- <* - ^auf/994 \AA^*X^ S, tr,»j 7>r. *W 'Pert; k>*.s6A»s&>" *d aj/ <-ce+«l&A. <20rts&ut&frZ»~ <*-y^ ^a/yte ¥tAtz,. o Bay residents want governor y 13' Wednesday, March 15,1995 * Journal photo by Gary Porter QLENDALE AND WHITEFISH BAY OFFICIALS want the speed limit on 1-43 near Silver Spring Drive lowered, in hopes of reducing what residents call the perv^siye noise that the grooved section of road generates. Glendale, Bay team up in effort to get 1-43 speed limit reduced ByTOMHEMMAN levels, the transportation depart and LUKE KUNK ment decided last October that Special to The Journal the problem wasn't severe enough to warrant sound barri Glendale and! Whitefish Bay ers. It also rejected requests to officials are teaming to urge the repave that portion of the free state Department of Transporta way with ar,phalt or to remove tion to lower the speed limit on a the grooves in the road that resi portion of Interstate 43 as a way dents claim are causing the to reduce noise. noise. Actirig at the request of a citi zens group, Neighbors United GROOVED PAVEMENT BLAMED Against 1-43 Noise, the Glendale Much of the noise comes from Common Council this week ap vehicles riding over grooves in proved a resolution urging the the pavement between Silver state to reduce the speed limit Spring Drive and Bender Road. frpm 55 to 45 mph between W. The state elevated that section of Green Tree Road and W. Hamp the freeway as part of its recon ton Ave. struction of the Silver Spring in The Whitefish Bay Village terchange, which was completed Board is expected to approve a in late 1992. The grooves pro similar resolution at its meeting vide better traction for vehicles. Monday. Earlier this week, the The citizen group's founder, Whitefish Bay Board of Health Dale Schmidt, who lives near the voted unanimously to recom rebuilt portion of the freeway, mend that the Village Board believes the state erred when it push the state to lower the speed grooved the surface. Freeway limit. noise will drive property values Copies of the resolution will down if the road's surface is left be sent to Gov. Tommy G. the way it is, he said. Thompson and state legislators "Until we can get the DOT to who represent the North Shore. take accountability for this hor The effort is the latest attempt rendous problem, we believe the by the communities and resi least they can do is lower the dents to reduce freeway noise. posted speeds in this area," he After testing the area for noise said. \bV