Wauwatosa staff outline three spending tracks for vehicle-registration fee; committee directs staff to draft policy

City engineering staff presented three proposed investment strategies for revenue from the vehicle-registration fee to address reckless or aggressive driving and to catch up on roadway maintenance: (1) a neighborhood traffic management program, (2) targeted arterial street safety projects, and (3) increased street maintenance activities. Committee members broadly endorsed the approach and asked staff to draft a policy for committee review.

Michael May of the engineering department described the proposed revisions to the neighborhood traffic management program, which would allow any person to submit a request (not only residents) and would run requests on a first-in, first-out basis for data collection. Staff proposed using a point-based prioritization system that incorporates an “80 fifth percentile” speed threshold greater than 5 miles per hour over the posted limit, an “excessive speeding” threshold (10% or more of…