transportation

Reckless driving has been on the rise, endangering pedestrians, cyclists and drivers themselves. The City of Milwaukee is looking at a number of solutions, including reinvigorating driver education programs, but one of the main solutions is looking at the streets themselves — improving street design to help guide drivers to behave more responsibly.

Gard Pecor created a diagram comparing how much land in downtown Milwaukee is dedicated to garage and parking lots versus park and plaza spaces. Pecor’s map spurred conversations questioning how the area could be reimagined to create more people-centered spaces, and how that could be translated across the city.

FlexRide is a pilot program that offers adult job holders low-cost rides in a car from the north or northwest side of Milwaukee to Butler and Menomonee Falls, and back home. It's meant to help people who don't have a vehicle or have other transportation barriers that make it hard to hold a job in those suburbs.

Milwaukee's mayor and a coalition of churches, schools and neighborhood groups are asking three large insurance companies to help pay for more drivers education for high school students. The hope is that more well-trained young drivers will equal less reckless driving in the city.

Wisconsin State Patrol and other agencies struggle to help reach a goal of zero preventable highway deaths.

City and county officials as well as the Wisconsin Department of Transportation are reevaluating Wisconsin Highway 175, between Wisconsin and Lisbon avenues, to become more friendly to people than heavy traffic.

UW-La Crosse history professor James Longhurst is the author of Bike Battles, which looks at the history of biking culture and infrastructure and how it impacts what we see in cities today.

Pete Buttigieg visits a Wisconsin Operating Engineers training site and talks to visiting students.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is among those questioning U.S. Postal Service leaders.

Vision Zero is a plan that seeks to end all reckless driving deaths during the next decades. Steve O’Connell is the chair of the Sherman Park Reckless Driving Committee, which has signed onto Vision Zero. He shares about his work with the committee and what he hopes to see happen in the city of Milwaukee.