Winona Wants a Better Broadway

01/21/2022

Pedestrian airlifted after being struck on Broadway. Read more at
https://www.winonapost.com/news/pedestrian-airlifted-after-being-struck-on-broadway/article_6cff5402-7ae3-11ec-9aa2-0fedd5e77559.html

02/13/2021

Is your street in rough shape? I have bad news. The council voted to return the Broadway grant money. To balance the budget 14 blocks of street repair will get delayed. On the bright side: Winona gets to keep our highway-sized raceway named Broadway.

02/02/2021

Thank you to everyone who shared your thoughts. This page will remain as a memorial for the injuries and deaths on our beloved 4-lane residential highway known as Broadway.

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02/01/2021

January 29, 2021

On behalf of the Winona Human Rights Commission we urge the City Council to move forward with the Broadway Road Project.

In general, we support the project because it will make the corridor a safer place for drivers, for pedestrians, and for people utilizing other modes of transportation. However, this Project will also assist the City in becoming compliant with the Americans for Disabilities Act by providing funding to update all of the sidewalk corners along the entire corridor of Broadway from Sioux Street to Mankato Avenue. If the project doesn’t move forward now, using the grant funding already applied for and available, these basic accessibility features for 100 crossings could be delayed for up to 30 years! That’s $1 million dollars for ADA compliance that would have to come out of the Winona budget rather than from Federal and State grant funding.

It is a Human Right to be safe, and the Minnesota’s Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination based upon disability or age. Accessible curbs and sidewalks for individuals with disabilities, elderly individuals, and young children make Broadway and the City of Winona safer for everyone. We have an opportunity through this well-researched project to use available federal and state funding that will not take away from other necessary City projects or maintenance.

Again, we ask you to vote to move forward with the project. This is an opportunity we should not shrug away.

Sincerely,

Jacob Grippen
Chair

Maurella Cunningham
Vice Chair

Jocylyn Poehler
Secretary

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MrdfvqC4kg9OU2Hnmzq1iipU_UAEzNNc/view?usp=drivesdk

01/31/2021

This is a guest post from Jennifer Anderson. She lives on Broadway. Feel free to submit your Broadway Story and we will post it here.
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At 9 pm on October 20th, 2015, emergency vehicles lit up our front living room of our house on Broadway St. A WSU student, Britney Rayla Nelson, was in the crosswalk and struck by a car. Her body was thrown over 60 feet from the west side of the intersection into, essentially, my front yard, right underneath the street sign.

I held my five-month-old son and looked out at her lying partially in our yard surrounded by emergency responders. Britney was someone’s daughter. She was just walking home. That could be my son lying there unresponsive. Britney suffered skull fractures and brain and spinal injuries but she survived, thank goodness.

We have the money and plans to improve Broadway so that everyone’s children are safe. How many people need to have their lives derailed or ended before we do what is right for our city? How many people have to have near misses with traffic? Let’s design our city to help us drive more responsibly and protect everyone.

What do we have to lose? Half a minute in our commute. Britney had to learn to walk again.

I want a Better Broadway. Winona Wants a Better Broadway.
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01/29/2021

Did you know that Lake City narrowed their HWY-61 to 2 lanes? It drives like magic! Want proof? Check out this quick time-lapse video. Winona can have nice new roads, too. Just give it a little imagination and maybe call someone who can help make a difference in the Broadway decision.

01/28/2021

This video is a STAGED DEMONSTRATION and it perfectly captures the risk pedestrians face when crossing Broadway.

Imagine being a child.
Imagine being shorter.
Imagine you forgot your glasses.
Imagine it was raining or the sun was low.
Imagine how this can get worse.

The interior lanes can't always see pedestrians because they are blocked from view. Cars traveling in the right lane will pass on the left thinking the car in front of them is turning, when in reality they are stopping for a pedestrian.

We can fix this. We can have a Better Broadway.

The experts want it. The data supports it. Our shared responsibility for community safety demands it.

Join hundreds of other Winonans and people who love Winona in advocating for the city council to listen to the experts, follow the data and keep our community safe — without the need to collect one more penny in taxes.

Contact your city council representative. Sign the letter. Talk to your neighbors.

We deserve a better Broadway. Click here and sign our letter: https://forms.gle/11tGVYjRt32Vyo3Y9

01/28/2021

Everyone in Winona needs to see this 30 second video of Broadway. You won't believe what happens to the mom. She tries to cross three times.

Winona Wants a Better Broadway. We are traveling east to west on Broadway St. in Winona, MN on Wednesday, January 27th 2021. Our vehicle never exceeded 30 mp...

01/27/2021

Over 3 years ago the Winona City Council voted YES to apply for grant money to fund a Better Broadway. We applied and we won! Here are some fun facts, graphics and photos we included in a flyer we created at the time.

01/26/2021

This is a guest post from this page's main contributor, Caylan. Feel free to submit your Broadway Story and we will post it here.
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Hi. I live one block off Broadway. I often cross Broadway with my partner and two young children. We walk downtown, buy groceries and visit Levee park nearly every day. We love Winona. Sadly, I’ve had too many close calls on Broadway both as a driver and a walker. I’ve heard car crashes while eating lunch and ran outside to see two cars smashed at the Broadway intersection. I’ve stopped for a pedestrians and watched cars behind me try to pass and almost hit families.

For years I’ve seen City Council vote YES on making Broadway safer. The sad thing is, a new council is trying to undo all of our hard work. That’s why I’m here. To show you why Broadway is a danger and why it needs to become a 2-lane road. I will be light with words and heavy on photos and video. Not enough people have seen the dangerous and ugly side of Broadway - the one I experience with my family almost every day.
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01/25/2021

It's 5pm. Almost dinnertime. You want to get home as fast as possible. Driving 43 mph on Broadway might feel like you're saving time, but you are risking lives. Broadway makes it easy to drive fast. Let's give everyone a chance to get home safe tonight.

01/25/2021

It was 5°F and icy, but that didn't deter Broadway drivers from exceeding the posted speed limit of 30MPH.