At least six schools could benefit from crossing rebuild and safety studies.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Joint efforts between three government entities will bring some needed attention to three Wauwatosa school crossing zones, with one slated for a colorful rebuilding next year and two more being studied for possible improvements. As part of the Zoo Interchange Project, the crossing at Glenview and West Wisconsin avenues will be updated in 2013, with full attention given to pedestrian safety, including broad, colored crosswalks. Meanwhile, West Center Street between North Mayfair Road and North 124th Street and North 100th Street between Ruby Avenue and the north city limits will be the subjects of safety studies this year, with recommendations for improvements to come. Those studies cover the routes leading to and past Madison Elementary …
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Whitman Middle School
11100 W Center St, Wauwatosa, WI
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Wauwatosa West High School
11400 W Center St, Wauwatosa, WI
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Eisenhower Elementary School, scene of an accident last year
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Wilson Elementary School
1060 Glenview Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
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Madison Elementary School
9925 W Glendale Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
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St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church & School
734 Glenview Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
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Longfellow Middle School
7600 W North Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Scene of an accident last year
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Longfellow seventh-grader suffered broken leg when driver passed car stopped for crossing guard.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Jim Price
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Ald. Bobby Pantuso called Wednesday for a review of school zone safety after an accident Monday morning that left a Longfellow Middle School student with a broken leg. A school crossing guard was in position just after 7:30 a.m. on Wauwatosa Avenue at West Wright Street with a handheld stop sign and had stopped one southbound car while the 12-year-old boy was crossing. Another southbound driver failed to see the crossing guard and passed the stopped car on the right, striking the boy, according to Wauwatosa police. The driver, a 55-year-old woman, told police she thought the car was stopped to make a left turn. She said she drove that route nearly every day and was aware that it is a school zone. Another driver going south behind her said …
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N Wauwatosa Ave & W Wright St, Milwaukee, WI
Longfellow student struck by car
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Much safer crossings come about through a grant that arrived too late to complete work before school year.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sometimes good things come with a price. Students, parents, teachers and staff at Jefferson Elementary School were more than a little miffed when, on the first day of school last week, contractors showed up and began demolishing the key corner crossings around the school. There was heavy equipment, noise and dust, and worse, it meant everyone, including very small children, had to walk around barricades and into the streets to get to and from school. One Jefferson teacher called it "idiotic" to schedule such critical work so close to the school at such a time "when they had all summer to do it." The scene was the same at Wilson Elementary School and St. Jude's. The most important crossing corners were being torn up and rebuilt at seemingly…
Jenny Smith
12:21 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011
I am a parent who drops her son off at Longfellow daily. I will drop him off in the front if I am able to pull all the way over to the curb, if not we go to the back of the school. A common problem among drivers is speed and ignorance. I'm not sure of the fix for current drivers who feel annoyed by slowing down for humans crossing in front of them but I do know that I will teach, by practice, my … more ›