Legal challenge to traffic forecasting key to highway projects

In a late May ruling, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman sided with plaintiffs and blocked federal money for the expansion of Highway 23 to four lanes between Fond du Lac and Plymouth, telling the state Department of Transportation that its failure to fully explain how it arrived at its traffic projections and its decision not to consider updated population forecasts for those projections were “significant deficiencies.”

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