Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee getting $4.4 million federal grant to improve safety on streets
MILWAUKEE — Lots of of cities and counties throughout the U.S. will obtain a share of over $800 million in federal grants to enhance the security of streets and intersections, below funding introduced Wednesday by U.S. Division of Transportation.
That features $4.4 million going to the Metropolis of Milwaukee.
The aggressive grants embody almost $590 million to hold out 37 initiatives making bodily security enhancements to roadways in 22 states. A further almost $213 million is being distributed in smaller increments for a whole bunch of visitors security planning efforts throughout the nation.
The grants are the primary below the Protected Streets and Roads for All program, which finally will present $5 billion over 5 years. This system was a part of the federal infrastructure regulation handed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in 2021.
Grants typically are meant to advertise security for a number of roadway customers, together with motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians.
How will Milwaukee’s cash be spent?
View Milwaukee’s accepted pitch for the grants beneath or learn on-line (web page 42).
“Applicant: Metropolis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SS4A Award: $4,400,000
Venture Description
The Metropolis of Milwaukee will deal with security considerations for all street customers, particularly pedestrians and cyclists, in a venture that implements multimodal security enhancements at roughly 26 intersections alongside 5 corridors within the Metropolis’s high-injury community.
Crashes at these intersections resulted from excessive speeds, reckless driving, disregard of visitors management, or different harmful driver behaviors. Dated pedestrian amenities, skewed intersections, intersections with five-plus legs, and lack of accessible pedestrian indicators create high-risk options.
The venture’s security countermeasures embody putting in high-visibility markings, upgrading visitors sign tools, making intersections ADA-compliant, realigning skewed intersections, closing approaches on five-plus-legged intersections, making use of street diets, and putting in accessible pedestrian indicators.”
The place will the cash go?
The checklist of 37 initiatives receiving multimillion-dollar implementation grants will be discovered right here. The initiatives are in these states:
California
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Maryland
Michigan
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin
The cities of Atlanta and Philadelphia will obtain the biggest grants of $30 million every.
Atlanta’s grant will assist fund enhancements to Pryor Avenue and Central Avenue and join a south aspect path to downtown. The venture contains roadway reconfigurations, medians, bicycle lanes, crosswalk lighting and flashing beacons.
Philadelphia’s grant will fund enhancements alongside North Broad Avenue and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. The venture contains raised medians and pedestrian crossings, intersection modifications and visitors sign enhancements.
What are the opposite grants?
An inventory of native governments receiving planning grants for roadway security measures will be discovered right here.
The 473 planning grants vary from $6,263 for Mekoryuk, Alaska — inhabitants round 200 — to greater than $6.3 million for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
California leads the best way with 43 planning grants totaling greater than $25 million, adopted by 34 planning grants totaling $19 million in Florida and 25 such grants totaling almost $17 million in Texas.
Significance of visitors security
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has mentioned the U.S. faces a “nationwide disaster of fatalities and critical accidents on our roadways.”
Almost 43,000 persons are estimated to have died in car visitors crashes in 2021 — a rise of almost one-third over the previous decade, in keeping with information from Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration.
Knowledge for the whole thing of 2022 isn’t but accessible, however estimates for the primary 9 months point out that deadly visitors crashes seem to have leveled off or declined barely. Nonetheless, they’re considerably increased than ranges that existed earlier than the coronavirus pandemic.
Amongst states, estimated visitors fatalities within the first three-quarters of 2022 rose by the biggest proportion in Hawaii, Delaware, Nebraska, Washington and Alaska. Visitors fatalities have been down by the best fee in South Dakota and Rhode Island.
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Bucks beat 76ers, Antetokounmpo scores 34 points
MILWAUKEE – Giannis Antetokounmpo had 34 points and 15 rebounds to help the Milwaukee Bucks beat the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers 123-109 on Sunday night.
What we know:
Damian Lillard added 25 points for Milwaukee, which completed a 4-0 homestand. Khris Middleton had 13 points and eight assists in 25 minutes off the bench. Brook Lopez added 12 points, and Taurean Prince had 11.
Tyrese Maxey led the 76ers with with 37 points and seven assists. Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 19 points, Ricky Council IV had 13 and Eric Gordon 10. Playing for the second consecutive night, Philadelphia has lost six straightand nine of 11.
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The 76ers (15-26) were once again missing several key players — Joel Embiid, Paul George, Kyle Lowry and Guerschon Yabusele among them — due to injuries, but hung with the Bucks until fading late. Milwaukee moved to a season-high seven games above .500 at 24-17.
Rookie Adem Bona, making his first start for Philadelphia, had 10 points in 24 minutes. He was 4 of 4 from the field after going 5 or 5 on Saturday night against Indiana.
Takeaways
76ers: After trailing by nine after one quarter, Philadelphia opened the second on a 10-0 run to take the lead. It later extended the advantage to five points before cold shooting led to a nine-point deficit at the half.
Bucks: After three consecutive games with hot-shooting first quarters, Milwaukee cooled off a bit, but still scored 30 points in the opening period and held a nine-point lead despite struggling to make shots from deep.
Key moment
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With 1:11 left in the first half, Antetokounmpo converted a reverse dunk on a pass from Lillard to give the Bucks 56-50 lead. Middleton followed with a step-back 3-pointer to push the lead to nine.
Key stat
The 76ers missed 7 of 14 free throws in the first half.
Up next
What’s next:
Philadelphia plays is at Denver on Tuesday night. Milwaukee is at New Orleans on Wednesday night to start a six-game trip.
The Source: The Associated Press
Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee bitter cold; Repairers of the Breach open warming room
MILWAUKEE – Keeping people warm and off the streets – that is the goal of Repairers of the Breach in Milwaukee during the latest arctic blast in southeast Wisconsin.
Opening warming center
What we know:
Repairers of the Breach at 14th and Vliet in Milwaukee was supposed to be closed during the day on Sunday, Jan. 19. But when workers saw the frigid forecast, they knew they had to extend the center’s hours.
What they’re saying:
“We called in volunteers, we called in the staff and we’re having a regular operational day on Sunday,” said James West, Repairers of the Breach executive director. “We have some people with disabilities some health problems and just older people and just some people that would not be able to move around and weather like this.”
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The workers at Repairers of the Breach plan to keep the center going until Wednesday – when they go back to regular operations.
“We usually close at 4 o’clock,” West said. “Prepare for the warming room open back up at 7 p.m., but we’re not gonna even ask them to move around for those few hours in this dangerous weather.”
Milwaukee emergency health advisory.
Local perspective:
The City of Milwaukee has issued an emergency health advisory because of the bitter cold.
The city is urging people to limit time outdoors, dress warm, check on others and take advantage of warming locations if you need it.
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With the extreme cold, warming shelters are opening up across the area. To learn more, call 211 and an operator can connect you to the closest shelter near you.
The Source: The information in this post was produced by FOX6 News.
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