Wauwatosa Weighs Heavy Truck Restrictions For Neighborhood Street

WAUWATOSA, WI — Authorities in Wauwatosa are considering permanently banning certain types of trucks from being able to use one local neighborhood as a shortcut, under a new proposal.

According to the Wauwatosa Transportation Affairs Committee, multiple residents had complained to the city that heavy truck traffic routinely uses Kavanaugh Place as a shortcut when delivering to areas outside of the neighborhood.

Kavanaugh Place is a roughly four-block-long street located just west of the Aurora Psychiatric Hospital and is bordered by Harwood Ave. to the north and Glenview Ave to the west. Dewey Ave is about a two-block-long street immediately west of the hospital.

The Transportation Affairs Committee recommended truck restrictions as a 90-day trial earlier this year. The trial period is now over, and now city officials need to weigh whether an ordinance restricting trucks weighing three tons ore more, needs to be passed.

Under a proposal considered on April 28, officials are recommending the committee support a permanent ordinance change restricting vehicles weighing three tons or greater from Chestnut Street between Dewey Ave. and Kavanaugh Place and from Kavanaugh Place between Harwood
Avenue and Portland Ave.

If passed, the recommendation would go before the city's common council for approval.