Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley Announces Vision Zero Milestone Toward Safer Streets in All 19 Municipalities
All Milwaukee County Communities Have Developed Municipal Safety Action Plans to Combat Reckless Driving and Save Lives
MILWAUKEE – Today, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, alongside municipal, county, and community partners, announced a milestone in advancing the County’s Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2037. All 19 Milwaukee County municipalities have now developed Municipal Safety Action Plans (MSAPs) to combat reckless driving and save lives. This milestone officially concludes Phase Three of the Milwaukee County Department of Transportation’s (MCDOT) Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project and aligns communities across the county toward a shared goal.
“Reckless drivers and speeders don’t stop at city or village borders. That’s why we all must work together to address our most hazardous roads and intersections,” said County Executive Crowley. “Now that all 19 Milwaukee County communities have developed a Municipal Safety Action Plan, they each have a guide to help reduce fatal and serious injury crashes and improve transportation safety. I want to thank every municipality for their leadership and partnership as we act to make Milwaukee County safer and more connected for everyone.”
Milwaukee County facilitated collaboration with all 19 municipalities and funded the development of the MSAPs through a grant award. The Plans use crash data analysis, municipal expertise, and public feedback to identify the biggest safety risks in each community. They provide recommendations for elected officials, municipal staff, and residents on how to make streets safer for everyone. Most MSAPs also provide guidance on funding strategies, policy and process improvements, and public engagement approaches for transportation safety projects. All MSAPs are available on MCDOT’s website.
During the MSAP process, four municipalities – Cudahy, Greenfield, Wauwatosa, and West Allis – drafted their own commitments to Vision Zero by 2037, aligning with both Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee.
The MSAPs align with Milwaukee County’s Comprehensive Safety Action Plan, which identified the region’s Corridors of Concern, the 25 most hazardous roadways in the County, and a menu of countermeasures to address safety at a systemwide level. Each MSAP lays out selected potential transportation safety projects and policy recommendations to address hazards along their Local Corridors of Concern.
Impact of the Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project
The development of the MSAPs marks the successful completion of the County’s three-phase Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project, and paves the way to unlock additional federal funds to support the projects recommended in the MSAPs.
Through the Project, Milwaukee County and municipalities secured more than $32 million in grant funding for traffic safety initiatives. Those funds supported:
- A Transportation Safety Assessment
- Development of a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan
- Identification of 25 Corridors of Concern, the most hazardous County roadways
- 522 recommended safety project opportunities
- Identification of 142 priority locations
- Engineering, design, engagement, and construction for 65 future infrastructure projects
- A dozen demonstration activities
- 27 public engagement sessions
- Two future transportation planning studies
- Creation of the Motor Vehicle Collision Dashboard to track crash data
“Our Milwaukee County Motor Vehicle Collision Dashboard helps us understand where and why the most severe crashes occur,” said Milwaukee County Chief Health Policy Advisor Dr. Ben Weston. “The data shows that speed consistently stands out as a major contributor to fatal crashes in Milwaukee County, with speed-related fatalities increasing over time. If we want to reach our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic deaths, reducing cases of speeding on our most dangerous roads is essential.”
Moving Toward Milwaukee County’s Vision Zero Goal
Milwaukee County is entering a new phase in its commitment to achieve Vision Zero, as preparation begins for 65 infrastructure projects aimed at reducing speeding and crashes along ten Corridors of Concern. Preliminary designs for these projects are anticipated to begin in 2027, with all projects to be completed by 2031. They are funded through the 2025 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) federal grant award announced in January.
The grant will also fund two planning studies, including a Road to Vision Zero study, which will track Milwaukee County’s progress toward eliminating fatal and serious injury crashes. This study is expected to begin in 2028.
About the Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project
In 2023, MCDOT launched the Complete Communities Transportation Planning Project to increase multimodal safety and address reckless driving across all 19 municipalities in Milwaukee County.
More information about Milwaukee County’s efforts to combat reckless driving is available HERE.
NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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