GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – If you don’t slow down in front of Green Bay’s Aldo Leopold School, then you are a big problem that some parents want fixed.
Parents are speaking out just one day after a pet dog of one of the students was hit and killed as the child and parent tried crossing Monroe Avenue.
“It’s really frustrating, it’s like playing Frogger, every morning and afternoon,” parent Danielle Hille told FOX 11 as she dropped her son, Warhol, off at school.
“Kids cross every day,” said parent Shannon Malott, while holding a sign urging drivers to slow down. “You’ve got to cross with them, otherwise, they’re not seen.”
Malott’s daughter, Nora, joined her before the school day began to hold up signs along Monroe Avenue. For the record, the posted speed limit is 25 but drops to 15 miles per hour when children are present.
Hille says the danger not only lies between the lines of the crosswalks for students, but parents as well.
“A lot of parents have almost been hit by cars,” she said. “I don’t know if it’s going to take a child getting hit for people to realize what they’re doing.”
Green Bay police officers pulled over at least 3 vehicles for speeding between 7:30 a.m. Thursday until classes began at 8 a.m. Another cop was parked at the corner of Monroe and Eliza with a speed gun.
Parents are worried about what happens when the police presence goes away, calling it a “Band-Aid” for the time being.
Green Bay Alderman Tim De Wane, who’s the district alderman, says he’s circulating a petition to change city laws that prohibit in-street pedestrian signage. De Wane says he’ll present copies to parents and staff at Aldo Leopold.
Then, he hopes to present the petition to the city’s traffic commission next month.
(Additional reporting from FOX 11).
