Ralph Heun, a 38-year resident of New Berlin, will be blogging about issues of concern to the New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government, an organization that promotes fiscal responsibility among all units of 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
