Green Bay, WI (WTAQ) – The issue of speeding around a Green Bay school on a city street that is also a state highway, has been a concern for parents of Aldo Leopold students and neighbors for some time.
Monday night city leaders heard about some possible solutions.
Green Bay’s traffic engineer Dave Hansen says a recent study found 90 percent of drivers were driving above the 25 mile per hour speed limit on Monroe.
“I think it was good way to show them in a public format that we documented excatly what they were stating”
The commission voted to move forward with city recommendations to try to slow down drivers. Those recommendations include putting up more traffic signs and possibly shifting the school’s start time by 15 minutes.
Sounds good to Aldo Leopold parent Karen Eckberg.
“I urge you to think about this long term, think about how we can make it so that I can tell my kids they can walk to school and I can be okay with that”
The city also recommended not adding a crossing guard on Monroe, which some parents at the meeting did not agree with.
The traffic commission recommendations must now be approved by the Green Bay City Council.
The council will vote on the recommendations next Monday.
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