A host of dignitaries including the Governor as well as federal, state and local officials gathered in Greenbush on Tuesday to officially dedicate the newly-expanded Highway 23. It took more than a few snips of the ceremonial scissors by Governor Evers when Highway 23’s new configuration was dedicated on Tuesday afternoon at the Greenbush Town Hall. The project, long imagined and nearly as long in becoming reality, created four lanes and three new interchanges between Plymouth and Fond du Lac, improving safety and transit time on the key east-west route.
Governor Evers, a Plymouth native now embedded in a heated re-election bid that’s been heavily invested in a battle over abortion rights, called the project an example of what really matters to Wisconsinites, saying: “This is a good example – Infrastructure. We need to have good roads in the State of Wisconsin; we’ve worked really hard to bring this project to a close, but also projects all across the State of Wisconsin. Infrastructure, education, and also broadband…those are the things that all of us – everybody in the State of Wisconsin – cares about.”
County Administrator Adam Payne said that both the public and private sectors deserve credit for the project’s completion. He added: “This is one where I hope our community would tip its hat to the Governor and his Department of Transportation because, finally…finally someone not only said they were going to do it – they got it done. And it’s so important to our community and future generations.”
The $173 million project, conceived over four decades ago, has only a few details to be finished, mostly in the urban area of Fond du Lac County before its completion in November.
Highway 23 at Greenbush
