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Image of Washington Park cohort - residents participated in the walk-roll audit.

Walk-Roll Audits with Milwaukee Safe Street Academies

Last week, two cohorts of our Milwaukee Safe Streets Academies conducted walk-roll audits of major project WisDOT project areas in their respective neighborhoods. Rachel Goochey, MilWALKee Walks Manager, guided residents in thoughtful discussion about street design safety. Both project areas, state highways 175 and 57, are just two of the many identified projects in the […]

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August 21 webinar – Mapping Access to Healthy Communities

August 21, 12 – 1 pm (CT)! Register here. Transportation Access to Public Health Options (TAPHO) is an innovative mapping tool that shows how people can reach places that impact health, such as clinics and hospitals, parks and recreation sites, access to food and nutrition, infrastructure for safe walking and biking, and more. Stakeholders can […]

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1k Friends supports policies to create more housing in Madison

For Immediate ReleaseJune 11, 2025 Madison’s no exception. Yet, with recent growth, allowing for more housing options here will remedy many of the pain points residents keep seeing and allow all of our neighbors to age in place. – Trevor Roark, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and members of the […]

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Freeway to Skyline: I-794: What’s Possible?

UWM students in the 794 Urban Design Seminar this past semester published their findings in a book, Freeway to Skyline: I-794: What’s Possible? Below is the description from the MINDS webpage: The UWM 794 Urban Design Seminar explored the long-term potential – If I-794 is removed, What’s Possible? Architecture and urban planning students envision what’s […]

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