WI: Transit Plan to Take Milwaukee Workers to Foxconn Plant Faces Familiar Hurdle: Money

The idea is simple enough. Develop a public transit plan to take Milwaukee workers to the Foxconn plant when it opens in Racine County but there is a familiar hurdle -- money.

One option is Foxconn workers who live in Milwaukee taking the Amtrak to Sturtevant, where the stop is about a mile from the Foxconn campus. However, as the Public Transportation Review Board heard in February, those trains are already packed during peak hours.

Expanding service on the Hiawatha route from seven to 10 trips a day would require about $200 million in infrastructure improvements and, even then, the DOT estimated the new trips would not begin until 2023.

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