The state Department of Transportation will keep 153 seasonal waysides along state roads closed unless money can be found to reopen them. That has raised concerns that people with disabilities who maintain those sites will be without jobs this summer and that the waysides will become an eyesore. The waysides were scheduled to open last weekend. It's just not the person working.
Tourists use the wayside.
I look at the wayside we clean and maintain going up to Door County. If it's shut down to July, or whenever else, it's going to look pretty trashy. Tom Lorfeld, chief regional maintenance engineer with the DOT office in Madison, said a financial crunch because of winter road maintenance forced the department to pare its budget. The department can never, ever, sacrifice anything that would endanger the public's safety in driving. He said the department realizes there are effects on tourism and on people who maintain the sites.