Traffic Safety Council - August 2024

Outagamie County TSC

Traffic Safety Council Meeting

August 11, 2024

10:30AM

Outagamie County Highway Commissioner's Office

1313 Holland Rd. Little Chute, WI 54140 USA

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Main Content

• Finishing projects in Seymour and WIS-76/School Road were opened on Saturday (August 21, 2024). 

• The Highway State Patrol is pulling in extra shifts for I-41 to reduce crash numbers. 

• Year-to-date fatality reports is at 310 with 267 crashes for Outagamie County (this is an improvement).

• Data collected focusing on "crash aggressive" icons of speed, impact, cause, etc. to safeguard future public safety precautions. 

• 305 Roundabout Intersections constructed in 2024 where there is a projection of 68% less crashes to occur at these intersections thus far. 

• Teen Driver Impact Workshops are available for those that are teaching new motorist skills - check the pdf link for information here. 

• Swing Gate installations on long-stretches of highways. Small gates that swing open in planned locations in the central positions of highways for emergency purposes/responder time reduction.

New Business

• A question was raised if motorcyclists have any issues with the rumble strips on highway roads (they are found in central roadways for attention upon lane deviation). 
• The cut grass alongside the roadways has a one-pass policy for cutting grass and this does not include checking for animals prior to cutting it to clear them out in their safety. 
• There is no database current for any new upturned soils with old seeds or revived plants afterwards being documented. There was a volunteer group called "Wild Ones" but it fell through and there is no other data to be used from their expeditions in the ditches. 
• Suggestive to curb the appetite and sleeping flora/fauna in the ditches to begin a preventative maintenance plan with biodiversity suggestions to protect animal and other budgetary expenses - cutting grass, saving any culverts being shredded in cutting grass, other equipment damages, fuel intake, risk to employee alongside highway, etc. I did mention the 100-year old plant found near a site after construction in personal searches for a wild dandelion and if there were any seeds that were found/maintained. How often this occured and documented was new information. 

Next Meeting is November 12 at 10:30AM, same venue.