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Wisconsin counties together spent $616 million on the construction and maintenance of state and county highways in 2023, Department of Revenue records show. On a per-resident basis, Washburn and Price counties spent the most maintaining them.

One wonders what revolution in Wisconsinites’ preferences for where to live and to work will make commuter trains feasible in Milwaukee where they weren’t in Minneapolis.

More people commute out of Milwaukee County into Waukesha County than vice versa, U.S. Census Bureau statistics show.

The number of licensed drivers in Wisconsin has risen from 1.76 million in 1949 to 4.4 million in 2023, the most recent year in the U.S. Department of Transportation Statistics’ figures.

And the real reason Wisconsin won’t join the modern world and let cars operate without drivers With automated, driverless robotaxis…

As self-driving taxis roll out across much of America, Wisconsinites won’t be seeing them without some changes to existing law.

Registrations of off-road recreational vehicles have nearly doubled in Wisconsin in 15 years. Boat registrations, on the other hand, have gone down slightly.

The number of people killed in traffic accidents in Milwaukee County has increased over the past two decades.

The most common cars displaying Wisconsin tags are those made just before the pandemic, and not from more recent years, analysis of registration data from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation shows.

Appleton has logged double digit growth each year since the pandemic and reached almost 540,000 departing airport passengers in 2024.

Wisconsin has dropped to seventh place among states for the number of the no-stopping circular intersections, at 602.

With fewer passengers and mostly empty seats, it’s time to shut down the Hop, Milwaukee’s $128 million streetcar.

Despite a much ballyhooed second line added last April, ridership on Milwaukee’s financially challenged streetcar, the Hop, last year was still nearly 30% below that of pre-COVID 2019.

Wisconsin drivers set a record of 68.3 billion miles driven on Wisconsin roadways in 2024, preliminary data from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration show.

Ridership on Amtrak’s “Hiawatha” service between Milwaukee and Chicago grew only 4.7% in fiscal year 2024 compared to the year prior, according to the railroad’s end-of-year report.

Wisconsinites are among the most likely Americans to stay in the state where they were born, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows.

Facing a $5 million bill to run the free streetcar known as The Hop next year, Alderman Scott Spiker wondered if a huge increase in handing out parking tickets is the funding answer.

Data centers chug electricity like undergrads drink beer, and the advent of artificial intelligence — which uses, we’re told, about 10 times the electricity as conventional searches — makes power demand soar.

Wisconsin is handing out almost $79 million in federal funds to private businesses to build charging stations for electric vehicles at a make-or-break moment for both the EV and charging station industries.

At the national level, recent studies show that small businesses are not contracting with the federal government as frequently as in the past. And those that do are becoming more concentrated in a handful of congressional districts around Washington, where rent seeking is the norm.