Article: Activists angry no hearing held in La Crosse Group opposing road plan calls Madison site unfair

Members of a La Crosse organization opposed to highway construction are angry because they had to travel 130 miles to voice their opinions on a Department of Transportation public hearing.

The hearing earlier this month in Madison involved plan 2020, the term for the DOT's construction proposals in the next two decades.

The DOT has sponsored similar hearings in many communities, but it did not hold one in La Crosse, which is headquarters for a group called Livable Neighborhoods. The group pushed for a referendum in November blocking development of a north-south La Crosse thoroughfare for two years. The department has held or scheduled public hearings in all of its regional districts, ...

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