This comes from an e-mail message I received and I don't know the actual source.
The Kohler Company, looking forward to the 2010 and 2015 PGA Championships and the 2020 Ryder Cup tournament, is asking the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to study creation of an "event only interchange" to handle tournament traffic at I-43 in the Sheboygan County town of Mosel.
Our compliant highway bureaucrats said, "sure enough," and a hearing has been scheduled for this absurdity on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Town of Mosel Town Hall / Fire Station.
The Kohler Company will pay half of the $250,000 cost of the study to see if a freeway interchange could be built to directly link Milwaukee traffic to the Whistling Straits Golf Course, where the tourneys will be held. The "event only" interchange would only be used every five years or so, and would be idle the rest of the time.
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When it comes to the Doyle administration, the only alternative to a crowded highway is to build another one. Of course, there is no mention of such "alternatives" as passenger rail service to Kohler, which is on the way to Green Bay, where it could be argued that sports plays an even bigger role in the economy than in Sheboygee, or at least more often than every half-decade or so.
More information here:
http://www.milwaukeeworld.com/blog/Mosel%20Interchange%20Document
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