LIVING HERE
Apparently, the contract with whomever is doing the repaving of Highway 50 has a limit of 30 November written into it.
For the ripping up and repaving a highway in Wisconsin? November 30? In 2019 a half a foot of snow fell on Halloween. How the devil can a highway be properly laid with concrete, asphalt and then cured at the right temperature to be usable and last longer than one season? The Geneva Shore Report wrote about this travesty of continuing highway robbery, wherein the road is torn up (surface three inches only) above the cracked foundations, and then repaved, but even that is done in an untimely and haphazard manner.
Now, the western end of the construction is still undergoing serious heavy work. It can only be wondered whether the State of Wisconsin can be this continuously stupid, ignorant, or corrupt in continuing this kind of regular multi-million-dollar giveaway while the communities served by Highway 50 are getting crap. On Friday of last week, the traffic was backed up for over a mile coming out of Lake Geneva and it took almost a full hour to get through without much chance of getting turned around and out of there. Awful crew, awful project, and incompetent state direction.
A new group has begun meeting at city hall this week.
On November 1st the brand-new parking discussion group held their first meeting upstairs at city hall. The group consists of two city Hall members staff with one being Seth Elder (head of the parking department), two members from the business improvement district, one resident and one alderperson. The new group will meet every other week from now through January, to discuss viable parking options before the start of the next paid parking season. This could mean the consideration of a parking lot on the outskirts of the city, with shuttles bringing employees into the city for work. The possibilities are out there, and it’s up to the parking group to find the best solutions they can come up with for Lake Geneva.
The group will also be responsible for finding a long-term solution to the lack available parking downtown on busy summer weekends. Perhaps this is where the acquisition of the Hillmoor property will come into play, as some of that area may be used to free up congestion in rthe downtown area. This group, being a ‘working grup’ is working in secret…of course!
