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Racine County board discusses swap of County Trunk Highway KR and State Trunk Highway 75
Summary
Board members reviewed a jurisdictional transfer that would move a 1.4-mile segment of County Trunk Highway KR to the state and bring about five miles of State Trunk Highway 75 into county maintenance, citing long-term maintenance costs and legacy overbuilding on KR.
A Racine County board member introduced a jurisdictional transfer to swap portions of County Trunk Highway KR and State Trunk Highway 75, a move framed as shifting maintenance responsibility to the party best suited for the roadway’s construction and expected use.
The board member said KR, a several-lane concrete roadway built for anticipated Foxconn traffic, is costly for the county to maintain. Under the proposed swap, the state would take the 1.4-mile KR segment from East Frontage Road to South 32nd/Sheridan Road; the county would assume roughly five miles of State Trunk Highway 75. County staff said…
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