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Health & Fitness

WI reps look to curb weight limits on new interstate

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON — U.S. 41 winds its way from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, around Green Bay and hugs the lower spine of Lake Michigan along southeastern Wisconsin. The storied highway, which ties together the nation’s North and South, cuts through seven states, crosses the Smokey Mountains, pushes deep into the Florida Everglades – ending its 2,000-mile run on an adrenaline burst in the ocean breezes of vibrant Miami.

It’s a living highway. The Allman Brothers Band, you’ll recall, wrote a kind of tribute to this rattlesnake of a thoroughfare in “Ramblin’ Man.”

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I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rolling down Highway 41.

By next year, a 175-mile stretch of U.S. 41 from about a mile south of the Wisconsin-Illinois border to Green Bay and the Interstate 43 Interchange, could be converted into Interstate 41.

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With a new designation come the greater restrictions the federal government places on interstate highways. Those limitations would force off the multi-lane highway many of the timber, agriculture and scrap trucks that breathe life into Wisconsin’s economy.

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