Geography 321, Chapter 7: Madison’s Place in the Great Lakes Megalopolis

(Madison is on top left edge of circle)

Today 240 thousand of people lives in city of Madison looks not like a big metropolis. In fact, near Madison is connected with Great Lakes Megalopolis.

The Milwaukee-Chicago corridor which located southwest of Lake Michigan is nearest megapolis that easily access by highways. Interstate 94 is straight access to Milwaukee and also can goes down to Chicago in south.

Midwest High-Speed Rail Association plans to provide another ways of access. If  this purposed high-speed rail system builds in the Midwest Megaregion it would become fifth largest in the world, behind only the U.S., China, Japan, and Germany. (http://www.america2050.org/2011/04/study-midwest-hsr-network-to-create-118-billion-in-wages-and-nearly-300-billion-in-business-sales-ov.html)