Milwaukee is in the middle of three (or maybe it's four or five) years of pain as the Marquette Interchange in downtown is reconstructed from the ground up. Sorting traffic between I-94, I-43, & I-794, it was orignially built in the 1960s. The original design was not up to modern safety standards and had devolved to falling chunks concrete, rusting reinforcements and crumbling pillars. Certain phases of construction have left many native Milwaukeeans unsure of how to access the main downtown area. Some surface road bridges have come down and been hauled away in a single night. A major industrial building had once risen above all road surfac...

Milwaukee is in the middle of three (or maybe it's four or five) years of pain as the Marquette Interchange in downtown is reconstructed from the ground up. Sorting traffic between I-94, I-43, & I-794, it was orignially built in the 1960s. The original design was not up to modern safety standards and had devolved to falling chunks concrete, rusting reinforcements and crumbling pillars. Certain phases of construction have left many native Milwaukeeans unsure of how to access the main downtown area. Some surface road bridges have come down and been hauled away in a single night. A major industrial building had once risen above all road surfaces right in the center of the ramps, but it too is now gone. Once this construction is finally complete, I-94 is slated for reconstruction west of the interchange, which will manifest commuting delays for at least two years more.