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From Milwaukee County: Safer Streets Workshops!
This summer, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley signed legislation affirming Milwaukee County’s commitment to Vision Zero and combatting reckless driving, traffic violence, and fatal and serious injury crashes by the year 2037.
As part of this effort and the Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project, the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is hosting five Safer Streets Workshops across the county. The purpose of these events is to share potential safe streets redesign and infrastructure solutions for Milwaukee County’s Corridors of Concern (roadways with the highest safety risks based on community feedback and crash data history). MCDOT will feature a handful of these Corridors of Concern at each meeting based on their proximity to the meeting location. The Safer Streets Workshops will be an open house format with informational materials and activities designed for residents to provide opinions on which safe streets solutions may work best on the roadways and intersections they use every day.
The first 20 attendees at each meeting will be eligible for a free high-viz vest giveaway! (Limit 1 per household.) Attendees will also have the chance to discuss their ideas in-person with MCDOT’s project team and ask questions. This feedback will help shape Milwaukee County’s Comprehensive Safety Action Plan which MCDOT is currently developing with support from nationally renowned transportation safety experts, community stakeholders, officials from each municipality and the public. MCDOT aims to have the Comprehensive Safety Action Plan ready by February 2025. At that time, Milwaukee County will be eligible to apply for federal funding from the United States Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program to support design and construction of a select list of high-priority safe street redesigns and infrastructure solutions.
More info and register for the meetings here: https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/Department-of-Transportation/Complete-Communities-Transportation-Planning-Project