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    The document provides a viewing guide for a year-long news project called Project: Drive Safer that aimed to reduce reckless driving in Milwaukee through enforcement of traffic laws, engineering safer road designs, and education initiatives. The project resulted in new laws, infrastructure changes, and restored drivers education programs.

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    Submitted for your consideration is a representative sample of the collective effort from our reporting, photojournalism, and production teams. From the 468 stories filed over the last year, we present you with our best effort at “moving the needle” on a life-or-death issue.

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    The document provides a viewing guide for a year-long news project called Project: Drive Safer that aimed to reduce reckless driving in Milwaukee through enforcement of traffic laws, engineering safer road designs, and education initiatives. The project resulted in new laws, infrastructure changes, and restored drivers education programs.

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    Project Drive Safer Viewing Guide

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    The document provides a viewing guide for a year-long news project called Project: Drive Safer that aimed to reduce reckless driving in Milwaukee through enforcement of traffic laws, engineering safer road designs, and education initiatives. The project resulted in new laws, infrastructure changes, and restored drivers education programs.

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    PROJECT: DRIVE SAFER

    WTMJ-TV, MILWAUKEE
    VIEWING GUIDE

    Submitted for your consideration is a representative sample of the collective effort from our
    reporting, photojournalism, and production teams.

    From the 468 stories filed over the last year, we present you with our best effort at “moving the
    needle” on a life-or-death issue.

    PROJECT OVERVIEW
    We embark on our year-long mission to make the streets of Milwaukee safer.

    ENFORCEMENT
    When Project: Drive Safer began, Wisconsin law gave police and the courts few tools to use
    against reckless drivers. Even the worst repeat offenders would often drive away with nothing
    more than a traffic ticket.
    Our dogged reporting on the worst repeat offender in Milwaukee exposed the weaknesses in the
    law and the unwillingness of police and prosecutors to do more. As a result of this reporting,
    lawmakers are considering an overhaul of the criminal code to ensure repeat and habitual traffic
    offenders face felony charges.
    This legislation is in addition to three new laws signed by Gov. Tony Evers. Lawmakers credit
    these laws to the persistent reporting of Project: Drive Safer.

    ENGINEERING
    Milwaukee's reckless driving problem is worst in communities that have long felt neglected –
    communities of color. These reports explain how engineering decisions made over decades
    resulted with streets as wide as highways cutting through the places where people live. Our
    reporting amplified the voices of these communities and resulted in long sought changes.

    EDUCATION
    Two decades ago, state lawmakers ended universal drivers’ education in Wisconsin schools. We
    explore the barriers that now exist to ensuring young drivers are taught basic responsibility at the
    wheel – as well as the rules of the road. Our persistent reporting helped press lawmakers to
    begin restoring this teenage rite of passage. We also conducted a month-long campaign to raise
    money for a driver education program operated by the Greater Milwaukee Urban League.

    PROJECT REVIEW
    We look back on our year-long mission to make the streets of Milwaukee safer.

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