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Article: E. Main St. to get $3 million widening City of Waukesha project will add two lanes in effort to ease traffic congestion
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 28, 1998
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Restaurateur Gino Piacentine doesn't understand why the city has
to spend $3 million to convert E. Main St. from a two-lane road into
a four-lane thoroughfare, complete with curbs, gutters and a grassy
median.
"They can save themselves $2 million by just repaving the road and
putting a stoplight at Davidson Road and Main," Piacentine said.
"Oh, and the trucks. They need to get the trucks off this road."
Piacentine is co-owner of Hillcrest Deli and Grill, which will be
in the heart of the construction zone when the city remakes E. Main
St. between Moreland Blvd. and Highway 164.
This stretch of road, more than a half-mile in length, was once
lightly traveled. The new Hillcrest Apartments, ...