Don't lay the blame for this one on the WDOT. Aunt Bea, Goober, and Barney from Caledonia decided that they would save a ton of money (yeah right) and do the consulting of the project on their own. Having dealt with projects involving any railroad, doing work with them is a totally different animal. The engineering dept was over their head from the start. And no, the Hwy 38 reconstruction will be run by the professionals, hopefully not the Village.

Much too kind @mike Fischer. I have called for it before and will again. Someone seriously cannot do their job competently. Whoever that person is, they should be fired. Period. It would not be tolerated in the private sector. The public should not have to have such incompetence in place for such a locally huge project. We pay taxes to hire competent people. people who foresee problems before they occur. people who understand their job is for the public at-large. I really don't care about excuses, problems happen. Contingency plans are those laid out by competent people. Excuses are for those not intelligent enough to have a plan b or plan c.

What about the timeliness of emergency vehicles at 3 Mile rd, Layard Ave, Goold St, Yout St, Rapids Dr, Etc. I could go on and on. None of these crossings needed an underpass. Lets be honest, at the time Queen Greenfield couldn't stop the Oak Creek Plant expansion (Even though she spent thousands of Village tax dollars in a lawsuit to stop it), so she did the next thing she could to get back at WE. She held them hostage for an underpass at 6 Mile and at 4 Mile Rd. So you see, we are still living with the sins of that incompetent administration.

I wasn't the one contending for the bridge, I thought it was a waste of money. It was several others who were saying this would alleviate the problem with the crossings at 4 mile, 3 mile, etal. I can see their point but I don't think there were any official public records to state how many times this actually occurred to substantiate and back up what they were contending. It seemed to me it was just some angry commuters that didn't want to sit and wait for the train. I thought it would have been a better idea to do the bridge at 3 mile since the firehouse was right next to 5 mile and could just go down to 31 and back up 4 mile to old green bay road. 3 Mile is a longer way from emergency services.
As far as the underpass on 6 mile, wasn't that done awhile ago? That I could understand if there were trains sitting there because there really is no other feasible way around the train if you live in Crestview unless you go all the way down to middle road.
But in the grand scheme of things....what do I know? lol

Not true. Here is the news release from April 2012. "The delay comes because the village now has to bid out work for rerouting the railroad tracks around the work site, which sits on 4 Mile Road just west of the Douglas Avenue intersection. That work was going to be done by Union Pacific, once the village had created the earthworks for the tracks to be laid on. But the railroad would not have crews available to do the work until this fall at the earliest.

“We’re not going to be able to build it because we don’t have the manpower,” said Richard Ellison, project coordinator for the railroad.

While Ellison said the reason the railroad didn't have crews available to do the work was due to earlier delays in the project, Hayek said they had an agreement with the railroad that did not specify when they were going to do the work.

Instead, the village is going to bid out work for a private company to reroute the tracks. That process is expected to take two to three months, Hayek said. That’s about the amount of time it will take the village to build the earthworks, he added."
This is something a professional would have recognized when scheduling this project. The Village dropped the ball again!!