Milwaukee Traffic, How Long is Your Commute? (Green Bay, Racine: home, living in)

[Milwaukee City]

In the Milwaukee 7 county area how long on average does it take you to get from door to door from your home to work place. Overall does Milwaukee traffic bother you or keep you from coming downtown on a Friday night? Are you the type of person to let traffic affect what you do on any given night?
Do you just deal with traffic or does it affect you mood and would who live somewhere based on traffic?

[43north87west]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

In the Milwaukee 7 county area how long on average does it take you to get from door to door from your home to work place. Overall does Milwaukee traffic bother you or keep you from coming downtown on a Friday night? Are you the type of person to let traffic affect what you do on any given night?
Do you just deal with traffic or does it affect you mood and would who live somewhere based on traffic?

When I worked in Milwaukee my commute was less than 15 minutes, from starting the car to shutting it off each way. I had underground parking, so that included exiting the parking garage. I only commuted from the East Side to the Third Ward, though.

I rarely let traffic affect my night, except for July 3, and a couple other festivals, when it gets frustrating. It never kept me from doing anything, any other time. Milwaukee traffic--other than a handful of days per year--is not too bad. It does get congested on game days and during big festivals.

[karfar]

I live in Bayview & work downtown, taking the Hoan Bridge takes me about I don't know, I think 15 minutes. Taking KK adds way more time onto that so I avoid KK whenever I can. I don't think traffic is too much of a problem, although there are your typical idiot drivers who go too slow or don't know what they're doing. I drive downtown but I'm not a fan of it, slow drivers & too many one way streets-plus, you can't turn left during the day onto any streets, frustrating!

[EnjoyEP]

Originally Posted by karfar

I live in Bayview & work downtown, taking the Hoan Bridge takes me about I don't know, I think 15 minutes.

Hey Karfar -

I have seen in some other posts of yours that you are a fan of the Hoan Bridge (as am I). Did you know that you are in a bit of a minority status, in that currently many (seemingly most) of the outspoken liberals of the Milwaukee community wish to see the Hoan Bridge destroyed / leveled, in favor of a more traditional artery (eg: what they did with the Park East)?

I - like you - am a big, big, big fan of the Hoan Bridge. Not only is it one of the landmark sites of the city, not only does it offer one of the more pleasant views of Milwaukee's Downtown, but it - for folks that flock in from the South Side - is terribly convenient.

To destroy it, would be to further self-mutilate for no practical reason, all in the name of "New Urbanism".

I hope there are more like us out there that wouldn't allow the Hoan to be destroyed. It would be a travesty.

[Milwaukee City]

outspoken liberals of the Milwaukee community wish to see the Hoan Bridge destroyed / leveled, in favor of a more traditional artery (eg: what they did with the Park East)?

I am in all favor of redeveloping land and urban sprawl and more building however tearing down the Hoan would be one of the biggest mistakes in Milwaukee history, it might rival the Deep Tunnel. The one mistake they did make with 794 was not connecting it down to I-94 around the Milw/Racine county line. Could you imagine how convenient that would've been with exits all along down South Milwaukee and Oak Creek.

Anyways back on topic I start work at 9 so the 8 o'clock hour seems to be the worst, when I used to work in New Berlin and lived at KK and Oklahoma.Ave it used to take an hour in the summer. Thanks summerfest and all other ethnic festivals and MChange project.

[EnjoyEP]

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

In the Milwaukee 7 county area how long on average does it take you to get from door to door from your home to work place.

I voted for 0-20 minutes, as that is usually my time. I live in Greendale (edge of Milwaukee County on Southwest Side bordering Franklin and Greenfield) and work Downtown Milwaukee.

Depending upon time of morning commute, sometimes that "20" minutes can creep up to 23 or so.

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

Overall does Milwaukee traffic bother you

More than most on the CD forums would attest to. Milwaukee's traffic sure as heck isn't the District's or Chicago's...or even St. Louie's...but I tell you what, for a metro of 1.5 million, things get far more congested far more often that often one would expect for a city of this size.

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

or keep you from coming downtown on a Friday night?

Oh heck no. This is where Milwaukee traffic is unbelievably easy. Except maybe if you'd be heading 94-East on a gameday (Brewers especially), Friday night commuting Downtown is a breeze.

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

Are you the type of person to let traffic affect what you do on any given night?

Generally not in Milwaukee. But that is one of the great things about living in Metro Milwaukee. If you let traffic affect you on a given *night*, you are kind of a putz - in general of course.

However, should I be living in a Chicagoland, abso-freaking-lutely-yeah, I would be altered by traffic on a night. I just have no desire to spend 1.5, 2 hours or so of bone-knuckle, white-knuckle time of my lifetime stuck in traffic just to get to a social event.

So I *would be* this type of a person. Just fortunately, in Milwaukee, this generally isn't an issue.

Do you just deal with traffic or does it affect you mood[/quote]

It affects my mood if horrible.

Originally Posted by Milwaukee City

and would who live somewhere based on traffic?

Yes. I don't have the money, but if I did, I wouldn't horribly mind living in Oconomowoc as I think it is beautiful and nice, but I don't think I would be interested in that commute daily whatsoever.

I can't even imagine living in a Chicagoland, etc. where this would be a daily consideration.

[Milwaukee City]

See I would move to Chicago in a heartbeat mainly because I'm a big city kind of guy anyways. Traffic never really bothered me even when last Tuesday it took me 6hrs to get to the West Loop. I meet people all the time from FDL and Jefferson County/Dane/Green Bay that say they have come down to Milwaukee and said they couldn't stand the traffic and I love it!!! because Milwaukee traffic is well normally doesn't exist. During summerfest you don't want to get stuck on South 1st street trying to get to 94/43 b/c it will take you an hour. The only stip I would put on living somewhere on traffic is that I would have to live within a mile of a freeway.

[karfar]

Originally Posted by EnjoyEP

Hey Karfar -

I have seen in some other posts of yours that you are a fan of the Hoan Bridge (as am I). Did you know that you are in a bit of a minority status, in that currently many (seemingly most) of the outspoken liberals of the Milwaukee community wish to see the Hoan Bridge destroyed / leveled, in favor of a more traditional artery (eg: what they did with the Park East)?

I - like you - am a big, big, big fan of the Hoan Bridge. Not only is it one of the landmark sites of the city, not only does it offer one of the more pleasant views of Milwaukee's Downtown, but it - for folks that flock in from the South Side - is terribly convenient.

To destroy it, would be to further self-mutilate for no practical reason, all in the name of "New Urbanism".

I hope there are more like us out there that wouldn't allow the Hoan to be destroyed. It would be a travesty.

Yeah, I've heard some talk about removing it, why I have no idea. I actually think it'd be nice if they added on a bike lane, maybe enclose it for safety reasons. If I had to take KK everyday, I would go nuts.

[43north87west]

Originally Posted by EnjoyEP

Hey Karfar -

I have seen in some other posts of yours that you are a fan of the Hoan Bridge (as am I). Did you know that you are in a bit of a minority status, in that currently many (seemingly most) of the outspoken liberals of the Milwaukee community wish to see the Hoan Bridge destroyed / leveled, in favor of a more traditional artery (eg: what they did with the Park East)?

I - like you - am a big, big, big fan of the Hoan Bridge. Not only is it one of the landmark sites of the city, not only does it offer one of the more pleasant views of Milwaukee's Downtown, but it - for folks that flock in from the South Side - is terribly convenient.

To destroy it, would be to further self-mutilate for no practical reason, all in the name of "New Urbanism".

I hope there are more like us out there that wouldn't allow the Hoan to be destroyed. It would be a travesty.

Oh God, I totally missed this somehow. I'm not in a politically correct mood this morning, so excuse me but... Which moron is leading this initiative?

Translation time: Let's rip down a highway that we recently spent millions to make into a usable, attractive artery into the city, which connects to a piece of road that we just spent millions to fix up. And, in the process, we'll spend millions to knock it down and build new "ends" so it doesn't look like an afterthought. Then, after spending millions and millions of dollars to rip down a road and make it look remotely decent, we won't replace it with anything. Finally, we'll reduce public transportation to make matters even worse. Let's spend money on a project with negative yield!

Honestly, this city baffles me. The more time I spend away, the more I see, that just doesn't add up. Leaders invent fictitious problems, then solve them at hideous expense, while leaving real problems untouched. The Park East freeway destruction was a good move, seeing how it was an unfinished project with no destination, and the replacement is equally as useful. I'm sure it helped to build up the area surrounding it as not many people want to stare at a nasty looking freeway out of $500,000 windows.

I-794 is a finished project. It actually connects to a real destination. It actually goes somewhere. It's unlike the Park East freeway, or the 145 freeway(s) to/from nowhere that never got connected to each other. It has a beginning and an end. It has meaningful destinations (downtown, airport, Bay View). It makes Bay View and the South Shore area more livable, as a quick alternative to schlepping four miles to I-94, or bumbling along surface streets behind notoriously snail-like south side traffic.

I see no value to this project, only negative return. I know of no other cities that do this kind of thing. It's fine to break new ground, but doing it stupidly is not fine. Milwaukee has little traffic; why make traffic? I-794 gets federal funds, and the Hoan Bridge is part of interstate 794, if I'm not mistaken. The remainder (the Lake Parkway) does not qualify for federal funding. And the expensive, recently built Lake Parkway will be totally useless if the 794 bridge is removed. What a mess.

[Eshea]

I live in Riverwest and work in New Berlin. It takes approx 20 min depending on the amount of morons on the road at 6:00am. In the summer ( Brewers/Summerfest) it can take up to an hour. It sucks in Summer.