La Crosse traffic congestion doesn’t need solving?

DOT holding public
strategy sessions on traffic

No matter what solutions the DOT comes up with later this month, for dealing with traffic congestion in La Crosse, chances are none of them will acknowledge that the congestion is possibly a good thing. 

Which is too bad, says La Crosse Livable Neighborhoods president Charley Weeth, who believes the state agency is trying to solve something that doesn’t need solving.

“It’s a positive problem in an urban environment to have congestion,” Weeth said. “It means there’s economic and social activity. People are going places, doing things.”

Later this month, the DOT has planned a couple of public sessions to highlight strategies for dealing with expected growth in traffic in the region over the next several decades.  All but one of those strategies involves building some kind of road through the La Crosse River marsh.