Fond du Lac Freeway

The Fond du Lac Freeway is a Northwest-Southeast freeway in Milwaukee. It is designated as Wisconsin Highway 145.

The freeway portion of Highway 145 begins just north of Hampton Avenue, and continues northwesterly to the interchange with the Zoo Freeway. From that point, it loses the Highway 145 designation and becomes US-41/US-45.

South of Hampton Avenue, the Fond du Lac Freeway becomes a non-freeway state-trunk highway known as Fond du Lac Avenue.

Originally, the freeway was to extend further southeast and there was to be a major interchange located near the intersection of W Lisbon Road and W North Avenue, connecting the Fond du Lac with the proposed extension of the Stadium Freeway and the proposed Bay Freeway. This was never built.

In October 1975, Milwaukee County Executive John Doyne proposed connecting this freeway with the Stadium North stub end, existing 4 miles to the south. While this "Gap Closure" has not been built to date due to public opposition, the current state trunk highway map shows a freeway planned for this corridor. Completing this gap would provide relief on the current freeway system and provide additional transportation benefits to the people of Milwaukee and southeastern Wisconsin.

External links

* [http://www.wisconsinhighways.org/milwaukee/fonddulac.html Wisconsin Highways: Milwaukee Freeways: Fond du Lac Freeway] , Christopher Bessert