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Post Staff The Milwaukee County Board's Transportation, Public Works and Transit Committee authorized a proposed tempo- rary express route to extend existing tran- sit services from Milwaukee County to Waukesha County and back to increase access to areas of employment during the Zoo Interchange reconstruction and expansion project. The move comes one day after the state of Wisconsin settled a lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and Midwest Environmental Advocates on behalf of Milwaukee Inner City Congregations Allied for Hope and the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin to provide bus routes for those who travel to either county for work during the Zoo Interchange project. A new route is part of a negotiated set- tlement between the groups and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, according to a news release from Milwaukee County. The new route – Route 279 – will run from North Fond du Lac Avenue to the Menomonee Falls Industrial Park. "As we talk about the importance of people getting to work, we cannot over- state the need for adequate transit servic- es," Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic said in a statement. "While only temporary, additional routes are imperative to mitigate congestion during the Zoo Interchange project, as well as ensure people can still get to and from work." The proposed settlement will fund approximately $2.875 million annually from 2014 to 2018 for purposes of traffic mitigation in the form of transit route support in the area of the Zoo Interchange. Contracts for the specific routes are still being worked out, the release said. "Transit is an important and vital serv- ice for employees and employers. Getting people to work and back home to their families in a timely manner through mass transit is a win for everyone," Transportation, Public Works and Transit Chairman Michael Mayo Sr. said in a statement. Shawn Lundie, the chief of staff for Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas, said that the county was present at some of the DOT meetings regarding the pro- posed routes, but only in an advisory role. "We were not a party to the lawsuit or anything else legally," he said. "The coun- ty provided the DOT and others present with job data in Waukesha County and information on the routes we currently have, their ridership and what routes we have had in the past that did not work out." As of now, no specific routes have been selected for use by the DOT. Lundie said that the county's main advice to the DOT was to ensure that peo- ple will be able to get to their jobs during the construction. The project will involve the crossroads of I-94, I-894 and U.S. Highway 45 and is scheduled to begin in 2016 and go through the end of 2018. 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