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Middleton planning maps propose new highway couplet, warn of multiyear timeline for Southern Bypass
Summary
A city representative briefed the Middleton School District board on an updated comprehensive plan and transportation map that includes a proposed one-way couplet and a multi-year timeline for the Southern Bypass, potentially affecting traffic around schools and the district's area of impact.
Rob Kaiser, a city official presenting the City of Middleton's updated comprehensive-plan maps, told the Middleton School District Board of Trustees that the city's area of impact has shifted as nearby Star expands and that maps (not the plan text) now show transportation concepts intended to reduce school-area congestion.
Kaiser said the city council voted to pursue a 'couplet' concept: converting the existing Highway 44 and a parallel arterial (a new one-way street running opposite the existing route) to create two loops that would keep traffic flowing around downtown and reduce drop-off congestion near the middle school. "Once it's built, the existing Highway 44 will travel from east to west only," Kaiser said, and the parallel one-way couplet would carry traffic…
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