3-28-18 highway 23 coalition

Envision Greater Fond du Lac and the Sheboygan Chamber of Commerce have announced an effort to raise awareness for expanding Highway 23 to  four lanes between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan County.  Jane Brill with the Sheboygan Chamber says Expand Highway 23 is a grass-roots coalition is comprised of citizens, business owners, government officials, the Sheboygan chamber of Envision Greater FDL.  “Our main purpose is to raise awareness, to educate.  There’s a lot of people who still think that its the governor who is holding this up, that our legislators are holding it up.  So we’re just trying to educate everyone on the history of Highway 23,”  Brill told WFDL news.  Brill says the coalition believes the project is necessary for safety and economic growth.  She says since the project was halted several  years ago when a lawsuit was  filed by the environmental group 1000 Friends of Wisconsin,  there have been multiple fatalities and serious injury crashes and the project cost has more than tripled.  Brill says the coalition has been working with the DOT on the completion of  a limited scope supplemental environmental impact statement needed to re-ignite the expansion project.  She says the statement is slated for completion May with a public hearing in the middle of June.