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The “Slow Down, Life Matters” campaign will focus on Sherman Park and other Milwaukee neighborhoods this summer. Photo provided by Coalition for Safe Driving MKE/NNS.
Fed up with the deaths and damage caused by reckless driving, 18 community groups in Milwaukee are launching a series of efforts to persuade drivers to slow down.
The groups received a total of $102,000 in grants from the city’s Department of Public Works to fund the campaigns.
One of those groups is the Villard Avenue BID, which will launch “I matter, you matter, we matter” and #SlowDownVillard campaigns during a six-week safe summer concert series. Its plans include educational booths with information on the dangers of reckless driving as well as driver’s education programs for youth.