Part 3: Time To Push The South 27th Street Corridor Project and Oak Creek Under The Bus

Part 1: The South 27th Street Corridor’s Impact on The Franklin School District

Part 2: South 27th Street Corridor Project Flunks Geography

Have you seen the retail growth lately on Oak Creek’s Howell Avenue?  Any reasonable-thinking person would never believe that the City of Oak Creek would promote economic growth of that nature away from Howell Avenue to the 27th Street Corridor.  What incentive would Oak Creek city leaders have to do so?  And in August we had tough guy Oak Creek Mayor Dick “Corleone” Bolender hurling and threats and insults Franklin’s way over the proposed Oak Creek, I-94 Drexel Avenue Interchange and Franklin taxpayers’ rightful unwillingness to help Oak Creek fund it.  “Fortunately,” some of the usual suspects in both cities, including a couple of corrupt state legislators “fixed things right up” for everyone!  Frankly, l don’t believe Mayor Taylor and most on the Common Council understood the Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to the funding of the Drexel Avenue Interchange which they approved unanimously a month or so ago.

Last night at the joint Finance Committee -Franklin Common Council Meeting, it was clear to me from the debates over the 2010 budget that the South 27th Street Corridor Project, based on the current economic conditions in our country and here in the City of Franklin—which have very little chance of significantly improving over at least the next three to five years—should seriously be considered for one of Franklin’s back-burners.  Can the City of Franklin realistically move forward with this project without it becoming Mayor Taylor’s “BOOMGAARDCARE”?