MONROE - Stop signs were installed on 6th Street, at the intersection of 22nd Avenue, Wednesday.
Drivers will need to be aware they now have to stop, Monroe Police chief Fred Kelley said.
Kelley said officers will make enforcement of the new signs a "high priority."
About 15 residents attended a Monroe Public Safety Committee meeting Oct. 5 to help convince the city to install the stop signs, following the Sept. 18 death of a resident in their neighborhood.
Anna E. Niederberger, 82, died at UW Hospital in Madison from an injury she sustained five days earlier while crossing 6th Street near 22nd Avenue. She was the first traffic fatality in Monroe in more than 15 years.
Neighborhood residents indicated they wanted the intersections at 22nd and 26th avenues protected.
Residents told committee members that vehicles do not observe the 25 mile-per-hour speed limit from 20th Avenue to the new Justice Center, near 30th Avenue. They said some vehicles travel as fast as 50 miles per hour.
- Brian Gray
Drivers will need to be aware they now have to stop, Monroe Police chief Fred Kelley said.
Kelley said officers will make enforcement of the new signs a "high priority."
About 15 residents attended a Monroe Public Safety Committee meeting Oct. 5 to help convince the city to install the stop signs, following the Sept. 18 death of a resident in their neighborhood.
Anna E. Niederberger, 82, died at UW Hospital in Madison from an injury she sustained five days earlier while crossing 6th Street near 22nd Avenue. She was the first traffic fatality in Monroe in more than 15 years.
Neighborhood residents indicated they wanted the intersections at 22nd and 26th avenues protected.
Residents told committee members that vehicles do not observe the 25 mile-per-hour speed limit from 20th Avenue to the new Justice Center, near 30th Avenue. They said some vehicles travel as fast as 50 miles per hour.
- Brian Gray