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Author Topic: The Rethink Interstate 794 Project  (Read 1357 times)

mgk920

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Re: The Rethink Interstate 794 Project
« Reply #25 on: March 01, 2024, 01:21:11 PM »

I-794 would also be much more important today if the Park and Lake-South freeways were completed as originally planned.

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Re: The Rethink Interstate 794 Project
« Reply #26 on: March 01, 2024, 11:01:48 PM »

To many moviegoers, the greatest memory of I-794 will always be when the Blues Brothers evade the Nazis by pulling an Evel Knievel off a ghost ramp.

That said, I don't think the freeway will be removed, despite the big push to get it done.
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Re: The Rethink Interstate 794 Project
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2024, 04:22:39 PM »

Those Evel Kenivel ramps in The Blues Brothers (1980) would have led to a northern continuation of the Lake Freeway (Exit 1F on existing Interstate 794), but they were torn down and connected with Lincoln Memorial Drive in 1983: https://wisconsinhighways.org/milwaukee/lake.html. The Lake Interchange has since been reconfigured, and will likely undergo a second reconfiguration if one of the Freeway Improvement alternatives is chosen (which is what I hope happens to 794).
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Re: The Rethink Interstate 794 Project
« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2024, 12:42:56 PM »

Those Evel Kenivel ramps in The Blues Brothers (1980) would have led to a northern continuation of the Lake Freeway (Exit 1F on existing Interstate 794), but they were torn down and connected with Lincoln Memorial Drive in 1983: https://wisconsinhighways.org/milwaukee/lake.html. The Lake Interchange has since been reconfigured, and will likely undergo a second reconfiguration if one of the Freeway Improvement alternatives is chosen (which is what I hope happens to 794).

I strongly suspect that if the 'dismantle and not replace' option is chosen, that that resulting intersection will be a two-lane roundabout.

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