You’re talking about fantasy autonomous vehicles that don’t exist at the moment, not to mention that an electric autonomous car is still a car that takes up an inordinate amount of space relative to a bus, bicycle or train and has all the same issues with disrupting the pedestrian environment. Cost wise, we’ve spent billions on the freeway system and are planning to spend billions more in the near future to almost no benefit to the city; The Hop could be expanded tremendously for that amount of money to cover huge swathes of the city in conjunction with huge upgrades to buses in terms of frequency, bus shelter quality, etc.
Also still haven’t answered whether you’re actually a Milwaukee or even county resident. I want to understand your frame of reference here.
Boomers are dying off, so yes we do need new population if you want the city and state to remain successful. More people means more revenue and demand for goods and services, plus it makes the city more interesting. Milwaukee had significantly more people in a much smaller footprint prior to post-war annexation of what are basically sprawling suburbs and city in name only. I don’t know if you ever visit parts of the North and West sides but there are plenty of vacant or underpopulated neighborhoods that would benefit greatly from having their populations bolstered by new residents.Milwaukee needs some growth but do you really want to explode in population?
Also still haven’t answered whether you’re actually a Milwaukee or even county resident. I want to understand your frame of reference here.