New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government

Traffic ROUND OUTS, brought to you by the Department of Transportation.

There is a public informational session planned for Thursday April 26 from 4:00-6:00pm at New Berlin City Hall

The plan is for 2 small traffic round outs, one will be on Moorland south of I 43 and one on Moorland north of I43. This allegedly will move a lot of traffic at 40 MPH. I am not a traffic engineer but I have traveled east on Grange ave in Hales Corners and have found that the traffic goes through the traffic round out at 116th street at very low speeds and with a low volume as well. I have traveled in Europe, where there are many round-outs, and found that traffic does not travel faster, it is used a method to slow traffic in an effort to make people use public transportation.

Moorland is a main County Highway and an expressway interchange as well, and is not a place where you would like to be making turns and changing lanes to get into the proper lane, in a circle with large trucks, tractor trailers or double- bottoms or heavy traffic at 40 MPH next to you. We all know that trucks tip over when making sharp curves at higher speeds. Examples are the Plainfield Curve on I 94, Highway 45 northbound to I 94 westbound, as well as others.

This scenario is a perfect recipe for accidents and traffic bottlenecks, which will occur because people are unfamiliar as to where they should locate themselves in the traffic lanes. After someone is killed in an accident the State will have to re-build everything again. Again more Millions of dollars down the drain.

Ralph Heun NBCRG

First of all, The Citizens for Responsible Government would like to welcome Joseph Poshepny and Ronald Seidl to the Common Council.
I know that all of you will work together for the common good of the City of New Berlin

At the April 10th public hearing on Calhoun Road, we all were told that traffic counts showed a decrease from 2003 to July 2006 at three different locations.

I was speaking as a private citizen, when I asked the the Department of Public works to set up traffic counters on Calhoun Road, before the next Council Meeting, and then we would have some accurate traffic counts , so we can tell what Calhoun Road really needs in the line of improvements.

I was surprised that the DPW had not done this the week before the Public Hearing.

A few days ago the city agreed to put traffic counters on the same three places on Calhoun Road. I think that the actual results should be published before we agree to what plan is the best one.

We all know that something must be done about Calhoun road this year, or 2008 at the latest.

The city has projected many costly road projects and the Alternate Transportation (bike paths) plan that are somewhere above $40,000,000

It is time that the Common Council look at needs and wishes before making major budgetary decisions of any kind.

Thank you

Ralph Heun