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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Introducing Southeastern Wisconsin's Theoretical Subway System

Do all theoretical subway lines lead to Milwaukee? On this map they do. But what do you think?

So these kids up at UW-Madison, (well, OK so they aren't really kids) came up with a handy dandy map of what a Milwaukee subway system might look like, according to a blog on JS Online. The map represents an interesting connectedness between southeastern Wisconsin communities, sort of remniscent of the KRM concept, but broader. And because there are college students involved, you know there's beer. Here's how this map idea got legs. Meg Jones wrote: Matt Forrest, a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad, was drinking suds with his friend Tom Shield at the Y-Not II Tavern last summer. Forrest and his business partner, Kate Chanba, met in a web map design class their senior year at UW and had recently opened Carticulate, a cartography business…

Born Free

10:21 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013

Would you mass transit utopia Moonies sqauwk if a mass transit rail system or subway was built between Antigo and Greenbay? Or how about between the Wisconsin Rapids and Stevens Point? Of course you would because you'd wind up paying for it one way or another yet probably never use them. You'd whine about needing it more then they would. In fact your whining about this idea right now. The problem…   more ›

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