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Milwaukee DPW infrastructure plan keeps major street and bridge projects while shifting LED funds to circuit upgrades
Summary
DPW’s 2026 proposal focuses capital on bridges and state‑aid arterial projects (including the large National Avenue effort), advances protected bikeways, and shifts LED upgrade capital to circuit replacement and knockdown repairs as the LED conversion nears completion.
Milwaukee’s Department of Public Works asked the Finance and Personnel Committee to approve a 2026 infrastructure plan that concentrates capital on bridge repairs, state‑aid arterial reconstruction and increased circuit replacements for aging streetlight systems.
The department’s capital program totals roughly $97.3 million of the $208 million department request. Mason Levy, DPW’s capital budget manager, said the 2026 plan is primarily “cost‑to‑continue” work focused on multi‑year bridge projects, state‑aid pavement work and city priorities such as protected bike lanes and circuit replacement for street lighting.
Nut graf: DPW told the committee the city is finishing a citywide LED conversion funded primarily in prior years but must now invest to replace older high‑voltage circuits and to address knocked‑down traffic signals and lighting equipment; the department proposes more targeted capital for…
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