I don't think the cars are actually that bad in Downtown Stillwater. One nice thing is that, due to congestion, most motorists are driving their cars 10-20 MPH. It's actually more pleasant than if there's no congestion but the occasional motorist going 35 MPH.

Also, this new bridge is going to be bad for Stillwater's DT. There are many failures in how DOTs and studies calculate destination/origin and travel demand patterns. The biggest failure is that they don't account for how this new bypass will subsidize auto-oriented development along the existing 36 and new WI 64 alignment.

We need to reward the short trips, not the long trips.