{"id":12,"date":"2021-02-18T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/full-project-overview\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:32:19","slug":"full-project-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/full-project-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) has maintained and rehabilitated these ramps, bridges, pavements and other structures on I-43 for over 50 years. The North-South Freeway has exceeded its design life.<\/p>\n<p>To modernize this corridor, improvements will be constructed along 14 miles of I-43, from Silver Spring Drive north to WIS 60, in Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of improvements?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expansion of I-43 from four to six lanes <em><span style=\"color: #999999\">(three lanes in each direction)<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li>reconstruction of five existing interchanges along the corridor\n<ul>\n<li>Good Hope Road<\/li>\n<li>Brown Deer Road &#8211;<span style=\"color: #999999\"> <em>constructing a new Diverging Diamond Interchange<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>County Line Road &#8211; <span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>constructing a new full-service interchange\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Mequon Road<\/li>\n<li>Pioneer Road (County C)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>construction of a brand new interchange at Highland Road<\/li>\n<li>replacement of the Union Pacific railroad bridge over I-43 in Glendale<\/li>\n<li>expansion of Port Washington Road in Glendale between Bender Road and Daphne Lane <span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>(expanding from two lanes to four lanes that will tie-in to the existing four lanes on each end of this roadway section.)<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why is it needed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accommodate existing and projected future traffic volumes.<\/li>\n<li>Address pavement and structural needs.<\/li>\n<li>Improve safety by modernizing the corridor using current design standards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1725 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-1024x314.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-1024x314.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-768x235.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-1536x471.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-2048x627.png 2048w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-676x207.png 676w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-500x153.png 500w, https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/705\/250602_I43_Schedule-01-1-200x61.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Want a recap on how the project got here?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> <strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindot.gov\/Pages\/projects\/by-region\/se\/43crdr\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wisconsindot.gov\/43corridor<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for project history, design elements and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project is the 14-mile modernization of Interstate 43, between the cities of Glendale and Grafton. The I-43 North-South Freeway is among the busiest routes in Wisconsin and is a critical Interstate link between southeast Wisconsin and the entire state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.511wi.gov\/43north-south\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}