Speeder and Speed Board
Our street, Wells street between 47th and 55th, has no stop signs and is used by drivers to avoid traffic during rush hours in the morning and evening. That would be okay if the drivers would keep to the 30 miles per hour posted speed limit. But we have three schools along this section of Wells St. plus a country park and a home for the blind and often cars used it as a speedway.
We asked for police officer giving speeding tickets, especially during rush hours in the morning and evening when the children are going or coming to and from school. However, with the help of local alderman we got speed board that tells cars going east to west their speed. It helps a little but recently it is off. I am not sure how or why. I wrote to the alderman and police officers involved and maybe we will get it back on or taken away. Sadly without a serious accident to a child we might not ever get real action to slow cars down. But we keep trying.
After 42 year plus history of trying to get military training off the campus of Marquette University some might say why don’t we just admit defeat and give up. If results were are only criteria we might have done so. But some of us keep trying because, like the slowing the speeding on Wells St. we need to, it is the right thing to do.
It is not trying that needs to change but how we try sometimes needs to change. People walk by our house or come to visit and tell us how beautiful our front gardens, rain and vegetable, are. Perhaps if we can make the gardens in front so beautiful it will even stop or, at least, slow down the speeding cars (Picture of front gardens below). Maybe if we show love, compassion and commitment in our struggle to move the military bases off campus the school will reconsider its support of teaching war.
Who knows? What I do know is that we must always try to do the right thing.
Front Garden 09/14/2011
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