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Kiel resident urges lower speed limit on Highway 67; council votes to back DOT request
Summary
A Kiel resident urged the City Council to seek a 35 mph limit on Highway 67 and raised related safety, railroad crossing and building-blight concerns; the council voted to support initiating communications with the state Department of Transportation.
A resident identified in the transcript as Jack pressed the Kiel City Council on Highway 67 safety and related local problems during public comment, and the council voted to support formally asking the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to reconsider reducing the speed limit on the state highway to 35 mph.
Jack described multiple local hazards along Highway 67 — from poor sight lines at the top of a hill to active businesses and the firehouse needing safe egress — and said he believed a lower limit would be ‘‘worth a pound of cure,’’ urging the council to ‘‘pick up the ball’’ and press for…
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