Monday, December 10, 2012
Among the recommendations they'll make for the neighborhood south of three school on Center Street – it's time to install pedestrian walkways.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Sidewalks may need to be in the future of a Wauwatosa neighborhood that has never had them. After accidents in which students were struck by cars, several Wauwatosa school zones were targeted for traffic safety studies. One, Wauwatosa Avenue north of North Avenue, got a quick treatment this year after a boy's leg was severely fractured while he was crossing to get to Longfellow Middle School. But even before that incident, the city and the Wauwatosa School District were looking at two other school areas where less serious accidents had occurred: West Center Street between Mayfair Road and North 124th Street, where (from east to west) Whitman Middle School, West High School and Eisenhower Elementary School stand along the north side of …
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Neighborhood advocates and a likely majority of aldermen want to paint a blueprint for the future of North Avenue through East Tosa as a bike-, bus-, pedestrian- and auto-friendly avenue.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
A resolution expected to pass the Wauwatosa Common Council on Tuesday night calls for a contract with a consulting firm to analyze traffic patterns on North Avenue in East Tosa and in Wauwatosa Village. It authorizes the city to spend up to $46,000 to conform streetscape master plans for those districts to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and other engineering standards. That's what the resolution says. But there's a bit more behind the scenes than long-range planning. Discussions in committee and with neighborhood advocates have been looking for some near-term outcomes, and one that stands out: restriping West North Avenue in the coming year, as soon as possible. Gone, hope those who support the proposal, would be the …
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The heart of East Tosa
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
A Michigan boy was seriously injured in similar fashion one day after the Wauwatosa accident, and a university study released just a month ago warned of a growing number of incidents involving "sensory deprivation."
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
It seemed unthinkable. How could a normal, healthy boy, with no hearing or vision problems, walk into a railroad crossing while the gates were down, lights were flashing and bells were ringing practically over his head? How, when the locomotive crew spotted him, could he not hear the frantic horn they sounded? As we learned after the death of Joey Kramer, 11, on Monday morning, it was because he was wearing earbud speakers under a hood. To most people, even knowing that, it still seemed unthinkable that Joey was so immersed in a cocoon of music that he would not have noticed all the visual and aural cues, the outright clamor of that crossing, that immense, earthshaking mass bearing down on him. But it isn't unthinkable. As it turns out, it…
Mark
10:50 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
So 3393 your saying the school does not shovel the walk way for days after a snow fall? I thought all snow had to be removed from side walks by noon the day after a snow fall. If this is in fact the case maybe the school board or school itself should be reminded of municiapl code 12.24.010 since it does not list any acceptions or exeptions from the code. Don't only just consider the special … more ›