{"id":3585,"date":"2011-11-22T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2011-11-22T14:30:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:30:22","slug":"wisdot-says-ummmm-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"WisDOT says “Ummmm… I don’t think so…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just in, an “interesting” letter from WisDOT about impacts on the Great River Road National Scenic Byway of CapX 2020’s proposed Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse line.\u00c2\u00a0 WisDOT says that under Federal Highway Administration (FHWA …\u00c2\u00a0 what’s the W for?) rules they don’t think they can issue a permit for the “Q-1” route along the Scenic Byway.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 They’ve asked the feds for confirmation on that.<\/p>\n

Secretary’s Letter to FHWA – November 22, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From that letter, the punch line:<\/p>\n

Therefore, WisDOT believes that it cannot authorize exceptions to issue utility permits in WIS 35 R\/W, nor authorize use of, or direct impacts to or conflicts with its scenic easements in the BRRNSB viewshed for a new aboveground electric transmission line.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What more is there to say?\u00c2\u00a0 But check out the attachments, the federal rules and some viewshed photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in, an “interesting” letter from WisDOT about impacts on the Great River Road National Scenic Byway of CapX 2020’s proposed Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse line.\u00c2\u00a0 WisDOT says that under Federal Highway Administration (FHWA …\u00c2\u00a0 what’s the W for?) rules they don’t think …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[663,662,665,666,664,661,660],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hampton-alma","tag-federal-highway-administration","tag-fhwa","tag-great-river-road","tag-national-scenic-byway","tag-scenic-byway","tag-viewshed","tag-wisdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}