Dive summary:

• A federal judge in Wisconsin, ruling in a suit against a massive highway-interchange project, said the project backers have to consider in their planning whether they would contribute to suburban sprawl.
• U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman ruled in a suit brought by inner-city groups that said there had not been enough environmental consideration given to the decision to go ahead with a $1.7 billion improvement project for the interchange of Interstates 94 and 894 and U.S. 45 west of Milwaukee.
• The plaintiffs said the environmental impact statement did not properly consider air pollution, cutbacks in mass transit which poor people depend on and whether improving traffic in and out of the city would encourage people to live farther away.

From the article:

"They must examine the potential social and economic impact on the transit-dependent of continuing to expand highway capacity in the region while transit capacity declines. ..."