Click the link below to download our petition (in Ms Word format). Please get as many signatures as you can and return it to us by March 10th! We will bring them to the March 14th meeting to show the Town Board what people really think about the road reconstruction!Petition
Please send all petitions (no matter how many signatures you've gathered ) to:
Partnership to Preserve Military Road
7124 Military Rd.
Three Lakes, WI 54562
This is your chance to have your voice be heard!
5 comments:
To David Hapka, Member of Three Lakes Town Board:
(a) If you have to drive far each day on Military Road, why do you continue to live on it? Surely you must have foreseen your future displeasure when you selected that location to reside. Are you not being similar to one who moves in next to an airport, and then complains of noise and demands expensive noise abatement, or in your case curve abatement, at taxpayer expense?
(b) What really do you mean by your question, quoted in the March 11, 2007 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Do we want a road that's going to last 20 years?" Mr. Hapka, it's lasted 143 years with its present alignments and existed long before that as a trail. It has use and meaning beyond those of a mere thoroughfare, and will continue to have for 20 years and far more, long after you and I are gone.
(c) Safety of Military Road to drivers not under the influence of alcohol or drugs is apparently not an issue, judging from Journal Sentinel's reference to a study of police records over the last 2 years.
In summary, Mr. Hapka, it may be well for you to expand your vision beyond that of a mere pavement memorial. It'd be so much less costly to the taxpayer to just buy you a nice home somewhere, anywhere, not on Military Road.
Noman Muehleck
Oconomowoc WI
Correction to para. (c), last line: "last 2 years" should read "last 20 years".
How long has Old Military Road been a National Scenic Byway? As of a Sept. 2005 update of www.byways.org and www.bywaysonline.org, it's not listed--the only National Scenic Byway shown in WI is the WI portion of The Great River Road along the Mississippi River. Nor does WI list it as a "Rustic Road", which would give it protection from any federally funded improvement--US DOT wouldn't, in the past, pay for it, unless that regulation's been changed.
Although few users or locals know it, we have several miles of an old military road in Town of Summit and City of Delafield in Waukesha County. Older than Lake Superior Trail Military Road, it connected Ft. Crawford in Prarie du Chien to Ft. Dearborn in Chicago.
Very hilly and winding between the Nemahbin and Nashotah Lakes, but people enjoy its scenic value and take another route or just live with it when they're in a hurry. It's not designated a Scenic Byway, just a WI Rustic Road.
I'd sure hate to be the guy advocating its straightening or "improvement"; it doesn't need any improving and he'd likely find it a career-limiting move as a bureaucrat in his next election.
Great points Norman. Let us know if you get a response from Dave. To answer your question Military Road has been listed as a Scenic Byway since 1991. The reason you couldn't find it is because it is National Forest Scenic Byway rather than a state or national one. Silly, I know. There is a great website for it though at:
http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2324/overview.html
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