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Jan 23

Written by: Steve Erbach
Friday, January 23, 2009 9:04 PM

The Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation (WisDOT) has posted a PDF of the proposed interchange at Breezewood and Hwy 41 in Neenah.  One odd thing about it is that it's formatted for an 8½" x 11" sheet.  If you were to print out the PDF as I did you'd find that the text is too tiny to read.

Fortunately a PDF is a vector drawing; that is, it can be enlarged from within the Adobe Acrobat reader to display the zoomed-in details.  I did that and then took some screen shots and "stitched" them together to form a decent blow-up of the engineering drawings.

I've made a JPEG available <here>.  It's about  1.5 megabytes in size and makes an image that is 1236 x 2350 pixels.

The reason I was curious about it was that I knew that the WisDOT had decided to rebuild that interchange using roundabouts; four roundabouts, to be precise.  The construction for that interchange looks to take place in 2011.  Last Wednesday the Neenah Common Council voted to go ahead with its own roundabout building on the Green Bay Road/Winneconne Ave. corridor.  (Note: that link goes to the city web site and a large PDF file: 9.1 megabytes; so be aware.)

There'll be a total of four roundabouts there, too: two of them to be built in 2010 at the Green Bay Rd. and Winneconne Ave. intersection and the Lake Street and Winneconne Ave. intersection. The other two -- at the Fox Point/Big Lots and the Shopko Plaza entrances on Green Bay Road -- will be built in 2012 after the state finishes the Breezewood interchange. Again, the Green Bay Rd. / Winneconne construction will take longer because traffic will continue to move through the construction zone -- of course, at a reduced level.  The WisDOT will completely shut down the Breezewood interchange; therefore, they can finish construction in one year.

By the way, that Breezewood construction will involve completely rebuilding the highway overpass and the bridge over the slough.

So it looks like Neenah will soon have the highest per capita number of roundabouts of any municipality in the state!

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