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Milwaukee Reaches Mayor’s Protected Bike Lane Goal
Mayor Cavalier Johnson calls it a 'great start,' pledges to keep going.
Jun 5th, 2025 by Jeramey Jannene
Trail Extension Will Link Downtown With Planned 20th Street Trail
Latest trail extension part of Interstate 43 reconstruction.
Dec 5th, 2024 by Jeramey Jannene
Milwaukee Wins Funding For Three New Protected Bike Lanes
Plus: DPW, council discussing ways to better protect, beautify existing lanes.
Sep 27th, 2024 by Jeramey Jannene
Scooters Return To Milwaukee’s Streets, This Time Permanently
Lime and Spin allowed to bring their scooters back under permanent regulatory framework.
May 17th, 2024 by Jeramey Jannene
Scooters Could Net Milwaukee $400,000 Per Year
And city is working to end its annual hemming-and-hawing process.
Mar 12th, 2024 by Jeramey Jannene
Data Shows Milwaukee’s Traffic Calming Effort Is Working
Speeding dropped 69% on one southside street.
Feb 9th, 2024 by Jeramey Jannene
Wisconsin Communities Get Federal Funds for Street Safety
$11 million for eight local governments, including $4 million for Milwaukee.
Dec 19th, 2023 by Evan Casey
City Assembles New Bicycle, Pedestrian Committee
Have ideas? Complaints? This citizen-led group is in charge of making formal recommendations to city officials.
Sep 23rd, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
Milwaukee Seeks Partners On Project Lowering Speed Limits
Firms will design outreach campaign, measure results for project to lower speed limits to 20 mph.
Jul 1st, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
‘Traffic Gardens’ Coming to MPS Buildings
Part of Safe Routes to School program, teaching students how to bike and follow rules of the road.
May 19th, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
Bublr Rolling Out Hundreds of E-Bikes, 26 New Stations
New e-bikes are "awesome" and "extremely fun" says Mayor Johnson.
Apr 28th, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
DPW Plans Surge of Traffic-Calming Bump Outs
Plan to combat reckless driving, protect pedestrians using ARPA funds.
Apr 26th, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
Traffic Calming Efforts Advancing On Two Downtown Arteries
Water and Van Buren streets would be rebuilt with a focus on safety.
Apr 7th, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
Scooters Could Return To City In May
Common Council creating path for scooters, and with usage beyond Downtown.
Mar 10th, 2021 by Jeramey Jannene
Milwaukee Seeks Data for Vision Zero Push
Consultant would identify dangerous interactions, develop predictive model.
Jan 8th, 2021 by Jeramey Jannene
45 Projects To Improve Century City Area
Trails, parks and road diets designed to improve residents' health and safety.
Oct 28th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
Scooters Could Return to Milwaukee
Could return in 2021. In 2019, 350,130 rides taken, with 67 crashes.
Sep 30th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
City Improving Kinnickinnic River Trail Access
Federal project will improve on-street access to off-street trail.
Sep 11th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
Milwaukee Opens Its Active Streets
Custer, Fratney and Washington reconfigured for pedestrians and cyclists over motor vehicles.
May 24th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
Council Committee Blesses Active Streets
And wants more. "Why seven miles? Why not do 70 miles?" asks alderman.
May 13th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
City Plans 4 Pedestrian, Bicycling Projects
Seeks federal funds to help pay $2.8 million costs for new bike trail, other upgrades.
Feb 24th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
Committee Okays City Pedestrian Plan
98 pages with 100 actions suggested. But will any of it be funded?
Jul 17th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
Evers Signs Bill Legalizing Scooters
Mayor says scooters could be back on Milwaukee streets in a few weeks.
Jul 8th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
Is the City Ready for Scooters?
Council debates pilot program allowing scooters. "We're all scared to death," Borkowski says.
Jun 26th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
Building a Better Protected Bike Lane
The city's plastic bollards were a bust. Officials considering new design options.
Mar 27th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
Milwaukee’s Pedestrian Plan
James Hannig and Michael Amsden join the podcast to talk about laying the groundwork for a more walkable city.
Feb 28th, 2019 by Jeramey Jannene
Committee Okays Dockless Bike Sharing
LimeBike and others could operate by late August, if full council approves measure.
Jul 18th, 2018 by Jeramey Jannene
