PRIORITY AREA: NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY
ACTIVE & SAFE STREETS IN AMANI Dominican Center Engages Amani in Neighborhood Safety
Dominican Center works with residents and partners to iden- tify safety concerns and issues in the community. For example, reckless driving has emerged as a concern and threat to public safety and DC has partnered with others to improve safety for motorists and pedestrians in the neighborhood. In 2023, DC facilitated Amani Active Street programming along 26th Street, the pilot block of the award-winning Block-by-
Block Program, and installed additional signage to promote pedestrian safety. DC also partnered with AARP Wisconsin and other organi- zations to install a temporary traffic calming circle to improve safety on 25th & Locust where an elderly man was struck and injured last year. The tempo- rary structure has worked to decrease speeds by 31%. While the posted limit is 25 MPH, vehicles had gone as fast as 62 miles per hour with 15-20% of
vehicles going 10+ mph above the speed limit. After the circle, the max speed decreased to 36 mph with less than 1% driving 10+mph above the speed limit. However, the temporary struc- ture has been damaged, which underscores the need for a permanent solution.
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