The traffic to and from these towns continues to increase. If we start planning new, we will have this road ready when it is needed. Right now, there are undeveloped routes that can be used. We cannot wait until we have added 100,000 new residents to Dane County to decide that we need a new highway. Transit is not an option here.
People are too spread out and go to too many places for it to work.
Policy decisions and business preferences have led to substantial growth in employment opportunities throughout the county. New places of employment are much more spread out than they used to be and people choose where they live in the county with less concern about where they might work today or tomorrow. People who may have had a job in the same town they lived in may find that their next job is 15 miles away, or that their employer moved the business 10 miles away. Maybe one member of the household works in Sun Prairie and one in Middleton. We can hardly tell them not to commute.