Cade Gerlach ⚡️

This is a thread about Brady Street Pedestrianization. It's not about parking or delivery zones, but rather the larger parts of a project that will help ensure the long term viability of the project. 1/9

@chunkyglobal @alfsadvntrs @FrancescaHongWI The Romans dumped their sewage into waterways and had floods. What a dumb response.

@GerlachCade @alfsadvntrs @FrancescaHongWI The Roman’s had working sewers 2000 years ago and democrats can’t figure it out in 2026. Unbelievable. Keep defending the bullshit, you can’t point to a single positive democrats have done in a lifetime.

Milwaukee flooded again last night — and once again, the infrastructure failed. Drivers were trapped on I-43 and I-94. The fire department responded to dozens of water rescues. Untreated sewage was released directly into our waterways because the system couldn't handle the rain.

@BBushman72350 @MKENewYorker This doesn’t really respond to what I said.

@GerlachCade @MKENewYorker Wouldn’t any amount of money that Americans pay be futile and useless if the rest of the world doesn’t comply? Why do American taxpayers have to foot the bill for China/India/etc not giving a crap about their emissions?

Fun fact: Pulaski is the shape it is because there was a ravine that was filled in when city first expanding north

@BBushman72350 @MKENewYorker I don’t think it can be stopped anymore, only adapted to. The can got kicked a couple too many times.

@GerlachCade @MKENewYorker How much money does it take to stop global warming? Asking for a friend

@Tpacko2 @RandyNeu @IsaacRowlett Back then, engineers believed that separation would have been a more efficient solution. However, we have the benefit of time and examples of other cities that chose separation rather than a tunnel. And comparatively, we have had better results than cities that chose separation.

@GerlachCade @RandyNeu @IsaacRowlett That’s still the bottom line solution. Was way less than $2.5 mil back when they did the deep tunnel project (yes, I understand inflation). The complaint then was it would cause too much disruption to those working and living downtown.

Without the deep tunnel project, the August 2025 floods (largest in Wisconsin’s recorded history) would have done far more damage mmsd.com/about-us/news/…

@RandyNeu @Tpacko2 @IsaacRowlett They literally built road on top of road. It’s all still there. Wood, pavers, streetcar tracks, communication and steam infrastructure, whatever else you can think of. And the end result of this is that even narrowish downtown streets can cost up $2.5 million a mile to replace.

@RandyNeu @Tpacko2 @IsaacRowlett It would have taken a lot longer for the system to be big enough to have an effect and probably more expensive as well. His statement doesn’t even recognize how difficult it is to reconstruct a downtown street. Many of them have *never* been reconstructed…

@AntiAlinsky @FrancescaHongWI We’d still need to treat it because storm water isn’t clean, not because we have combined sewers. Sewer separation is no panacea and cities that pursued sewer separation over increased storm water storage capacity and environmental restoration have seen worse outcomes.

@GerlachCade @FrancescaHongWI They are required to treat all of it because those small sections of Milwaukee and Shorewood that haven’t separated sanitary sewers from storm.

when the city was first*

@_eddiemiller_ @taste_of_tbone @SamKuffelWx Those new developments don’t make up for that empty space. We’re almost 180k people below our population count in 1960. And that was when the population was concentrated across a much smaller swath of the city.

@GerlachCade @taste_of_tbone @SamKuffelWx Those big warehouses that were converted into apartments/condos go from 1 or 2 bathrooms per floor to 8, 10 or even 12 bathrooms per floor and not to forget about the high rises that they’ve put up more than makes up for that empty space

at moments like these when, we need to seriously reconsider our city infrastructure in the face of climate change, i'm grateful that the state of wisconsin is spending $1.7 billion on making a highway wider 🙏

@alfsadvntrs @FrancescaHongWI Specifically, what would a Republican mayor do that’s different from what a Democratic mayor would in this scenario that would reduce flooding?

@FrancescaHongWI Huh when was the last time Milwaukee had a Republican mayor? It’s not like this hasn’t happened in the past few years. What party has been in control of the governor’s office for the last 7 years? I guess roads/flooding are only a concern when it’s election time.

@AntiAlinsky @FrancescaHongWI That wouldn’t work. MMSD is required to treat ALL of the water that falls into all types of sewers in its service area. Just because it’s not sewage doesn’t mean it’s clean. It’s often very, very dirty.

@FrancescaHongWI We can’t fix the system because Milwaukee and Shorewood are too cheap to separate their 3% of the sewers.

@_eddiemiller_ @taste_of_tbone @SamKuffelWx Despite new apartments in some parts of the city, large segments of the city have seen a significant loss of their built environments. There’s a lot of empty lots and we’re far below our peak population. It’s not a sewage treatment capacity issue.

@taste_of_tbone @SamKuffelWx I’ve said this for a while now. With all the new apartment/condo projects going up, when will the sewage treatment plant be expanded?

Nobody could have predicted this.

Projected*

It’s incredibly surprising that we’re project to win Sheboygan County and lose Racine.

@Citizen_MKE Maybe, NYT is projecting a R victory in Racine tho. They could be wrong.

@GerlachCade Still alot of votes out in Racine. Probably most of the city. No way Racine is Lazar won

Someone make a picture of Milwaukee and Ozaukee hugging like the one of Wisconsin and Minnesota.