MONROE - Over the next few weeks, in addition to their normal traffic enforcement duties, Monroe Police will be concentrating traffic enforcement efforts in certain areas, and for certain violations, officials said.
In the recently established 25 mph work zone speed area on Wisconsin 69 between 6th Street and 16th Street, police will be checking and enforcing speed violations, both with radar and laser equipment, said Monroe Police Chief Fred Kelley.
The speed zone has been conspicuously signed and flagged, and motorists given time to get used to a reduced speed. Now, it is time to take enforcement action, officials added, in a press release.
On 10th Street and 11th Street, between 13th Avenue and Wis. 69, police will be focused on the problem of motorists treating the one-way streets as two-lane roads. They are not two-lane roads, but rather one-way, single-lane roads. Before they were detour routes, the streets were both standard city streets that carried two-way traffic.
By making them a detour route, the streets became one-way streets, but not more than one-lane.
There would have been dashed white center lines pained, had the streets been set up as more than single lane.
Motorists trying to use the streets as two-lane roads have already led to accidents, as well as numerous "road rage" incidents, said Kelley. There will be extra signage added indicating motorists must form a single lane to reinforce the one-lane requirement. Police will also be enforcing violations of passing at intersections.
Police will also be enforcing speed violations in the 15 mph zone in the 400 and 500 blocks of 22nd Avenue.
Numerous complaints of speeding in the area have been received, and recorded data has reinforced this, said Kelley.
Motorists are being warned of these efforts to gain voluntary compliance, and so they can avoid traffic citations of $175 to $200.
In the recently established 25 mph work zone speed area on Wisconsin 69 between 6th Street and 16th Street, police will be checking and enforcing speed violations, both with radar and laser equipment, said Monroe Police Chief Fred Kelley.
The speed zone has been conspicuously signed and flagged, and motorists given time to get used to a reduced speed. Now, it is time to take enforcement action, officials added, in a press release.
On 10th Street and 11th Street, between 13th Avenue and Wis. 69, police will be focused on the problem of motorists treating the one-way streets as two-lane roads. They are not two-lane roads, but rather one-way, single-lane roads. Before they were detour routes, the streets were both standard city streets that carried two-way traffic.
By making them a detour route, the streets became one-way streets, but not more than one-lane.
There would have been dashed white center lines pained, had the streets been set up as more than single lane.
Motorists trying to use the streets as two-lane roads have already led to accidents, as well as numerous "road rage" incidents, said Kelley. There will be extra signage added indicating motorists must form a single lane to reinforce the one-lane requirement. Police will also be enforcing violations of passing at intersections.
Police will also be enforcing speed violations in the 15 mph zone in the 400 and 500 blocks of 22nd Avenue.
Numerous complaints of speeding in the area have been received, and recorded data has reinforced this, said Kelley.
Motorists are being warned of these efforts to gain voluntary compliance, and so they can avoid traffic citations of $175 to $200.