Title: Safe Two-Lane Highway 12 NOW Coalition Records
Inclusive Dates: 1988-1997

Creator:

• Safe Two-Lane Highway 12 NOW Coalition

Call Number: M2001-104; Audio 1914A

Quantity: 2.8 cubic feet (2 records center cartons and 2 archives boxes) and 1 tape recording

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records, 1988-1997, documenting the controversial decision by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) to expand US Highway 12 to four lanes between Middleton and Lake Delton and the efforts by citizens and environmental groups to oppose such an enlargement. The records primarily document the efforts of the Safe Two-Lane Highway 12 NOW Coalition, but also include supporting documentation compiled by the coalition such as government documents detailing the growth of the project, and news clippings about the conflict.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2001104

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The records are arranged in three series: SAFE TW0-LANE HIGHWAY 12 NOW COALITION, GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, and AUDIO RECORDING. The SAFE TW0-LANE HIGHWAY 12 NOW COALITION series documents the efforts of the coalition to maintain Highway 12 as a two-lane highway while making substantial safety improvements, instead of enlarging it to four-lanes. These records consist of correspondence, publicity materials, activities of the coalition, and research files compiled for possible legal challenges to the construction.

The GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS series consists of the records of Ayres and Associates, the engineering firm the state hired to study the enlargement of the highway, and include correspondence, memos, a Highway 12 newsletter published jointly with WisDOT, and the minutes and agendas for Ayres's monthly meetings. Also included are WisDOT's environmental impact statements (EIS) and comments on these reports by the Coalition and other government and private groups as well as local government resolutions and transportation and land use plans for cities and counties located in the construction corridor. Additionally there are records obtained by Roads with Reason (a local environmental group) through an Open Records request in 1993 which contain correspondence, memos, and reports from WisDOT, Ayres, and other state agencies regarding Highway 12 construction from 1988 to 1993, the first five years of the project.

Acquisition Information

Presented by 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Inc., Madison, Wisconsin. Accession Number: M2001-104

M2001-104	Series: Safe Two-Lane Highway 12 Now Coalition
Box   1 Folder   1	Mission statement
Box   1 Folder   2	Leaders
Box   1 Folder   3-10	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   11	Memos
Box   1 Folder   12	Notes
Box   1 Folder   13	Flyers, mailings, and information sheets
Box   1 Folder   14	Newsletter
Box   1 Folder   15	Presentation materials
Box   1 Folder   16	Meeting minutes
Box   1 Folder   17	Northwest Chapter
Box   1 Folder   18	List of farmer and business coalition supporters along Highway 12
Box   1 Folder   19	Baraboo activities
Box   1 Folder   20	Middleton activities
Box   1 Folder   21	Sauk Prairie activities
Box   1 Folder   22-25	Groups supporting the coalition
Box   1 Folder   26	Legal issues file
Box   1 Folder   27	Maps
Box   1 Folder   28	Bad faith claims
Box   1 Folder   29-30	Badger ammunition plant
Box   1 Folder   31-35	Baraboo Hills
Box   1 Folder   36-39	Endangered species
Box   1 Folder   40	Energy statute
Box   1 Folder   41	Historic preservation concerns
Box   1 Folder   42	Federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)
Box   1 Folder   43-44	Land Use
Box   1 Folder   45	Roads with Reason investigations
Box   1 Folder   46-47	Segmentation issues
Box   1 Folder   48	Trails/Road conflicts
Box   1 Folder   49	Wetlands
Box   4 Folder   3-4	Newspaper clippings
	Series: Government Documents	⇧
	Ayres Associates Files
Box   1 Folder   50-51	Correspondence and memos
Box   1 Folder   52	Ayres contacts with Army Corps of Engineers
Box   1 Folder   53	Ayres contacts with the EPA
Box   1 Folder   54	Ayres contracts
Box   1 Folder   55-56	Monthly meetings and minutes
Box   1 Folder   57	US Highway 12 newsletter
	Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
Box   2 Folder   1	Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) EIS position paper
Box   2 Folder   2-3	Pre Draft EIS (DEIS) comments and meetings
Box   2 Folder   4	Pre-DEIS hearings
Box   2 Folder   5	Comments on DEIS
Box   2 Folder   6	WisDOT work plan on Supplemental EIS (SEIS)
Box   2 Folder   7	SEIS comments
Box   2 Folder   8	Baraboo Hills SEIS comments
Box   2 Folder   9	Walter Kulash/Coalition SEIS response
Box   2 Folder   10	SEIS partial
Box   2 Folder   11	EIS report appendices
	Local Government Activities
Box   2 Folder   12	Local government resolutions
Box   2 Folder   13-17	Dane County
Box   2 Folder   18	Town of Dane
Box   2 Folder   19	Middleton
Box   2 Folder   20	Roxbury
Box   2 Folder   21	Sauk Prairie
Box   2 Folder   22	Sauk County
Box   2 Folder   23	Springfield
	Open Records Act Documents
Box   2 Folder   24	Open Records Requests
Box   2 Folder   25	Cost documents
Box   2 Folder   26	Environment documents
Box   2 Folder   27	Land use and economic development documents
Box   2 Folder   28	Safety and accident rates documents
Box   2 Folder   29	Sauk City bypass documents
Box   2 Folder   30-38	Documents by date, 1988-1993
	WisDOT Documents
Box   3 Folder   1	Correspondence and memos
Box   3 Folder   2	Project statements and information sheets
Box   3 Folder   3	Interagency meeting, January 1995
Box   3 Folder   4	Transportation projects commission
Box   3 Folder   5	Sauk City to Middleton commutershed study, January 1996
Box   3 Folder   6	Agricultural impact statement, October 1994
Box   3 Folder   7	Environmental review proposal
Box   3 Folder   8-9	Highway 12 study committee report
Box   3 Folder   10	Highway 12 accident data
Box   3 Folder   11	Safety
Box   3 Folder   12	Project cost estimations
Box   3 Folder   13	I 90-94 to Ski Hi Road project papers
Box   3 Folder   14	Sauk City bypass
Box   3 Folder   15	Middleton bypass
Box   3 Folder   16-18	Public hearings
Box   4 Folder   1-2	Citizen comments and letters
1914A/1	Series: Audio Recording Scope and Content Note: The Ideas Network, Tom Clark WPR call-in show, December 19, 1996, with guest Walter Kulash, traffic safety engineer hired by coalition to study WisDOT's plans.	⇧