We've been on hiatus for some time due to various life happenings amongst the authors. In part, we are back because there is a feeling of a lull in some parts of Milwaukee's safe streets advocacy community. We would like to invite people to (re)connect
A portion of one of Milwaukee's most notorious high-injury roads, Fond Du Lac Avenue, is up for reconstruction in the coming years, and today is the first opportunity to advocate for traffic calming improvements to city and state officials. Public Involvement Meeting #1 Wednesday, July 30th MCTS Administration
Wisconsin Bike Week 2025 is upon us! April and May were light on project updates. If you haven't already, check out our April newsletter which has a comprehensive rundown of active projects as construction season gets underway. For now, here's a selection of upcoming Bike Week
Better Streets Working Meetup Thank you to all who joined for previous meetups and got started on projects! For those interested in continuing to build out a digital resource about car-free mobility in the Milwaukee area, we will have a working meetup on Wednesday, April 16 at Central Waters. Please
TL;DR: the Better Streets meetup is rescheduled to Thursday, 2/13 at 6pm at Indeed Brewing. In our last newsletter we announced a meetup this Sunday (2/9) at 1. We've since been alerted to a march organized by the Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
It felt inappropriate and impossible to write a regular edition with updates about transportation projects. The reality of the current national situation is that funding for many projects is in the air. More urgently, our communities are facing threats and fear. While we support local staff who are working so
Remembering Jonathan Brostoff Milwaukee lost a champion earlier this month. Jonathan Brostoff's passion and energy were unparalleled. He wore his heart on his sleeve; he had absolutely no chill. You could disagree with him, but you couldn't doubt his sincerity. He'd talk to anyone,
As a minor programming note, it has been longer than we usually plan between newsletters. Part of the reason is we were very busy training and taking first place at the Riverwest 24 (in our hearts if not in reality). The good news is that because of that delay, this
The City of Milwaukee's Growing MKE plan was discussed in our last newsletter, and the final draft has been published. A provision that would have allowed multi-family apartments in RT3 and RT4 zoning districts was removed, unnecessarily weakening the plan. The City Plan Commission will be hearing testimony
Growing MKE The City has published their Growing MKE Draft Plan. The plan is well-researched, comprehensive, based on extensive outreach over the last year, and lays out in detail what the plan seeks to achieve, and how the proposed solutions will help get us there. At a high level, the
The big news this month is the United States Department of Transportation awarded Milwaukee a $36 million Reconnecting Communities Grant to rebuild 6th Street between North Avenue and National Avenue (2.6 miles) to include safer infrastructure for walking, biking and transit. This project is one of the "Catalytic
Apologies for a bit of a delay between newsletters. We highly encourage you to spend some time reviewing the 2024 Traffic Calming and Bikeway Projects map released by DPW. You can see the full map here, thanks to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which also wrote about the projects. Some projects