PENALTIES CAN NOW BE GIVEN FOR DRIVING WRONG WAY DOWN ONE-WAY STREET

[My Northern Wisconsin]

   

A public hearing was held on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, in order to revise an ordinance regarding one-way streets.  Ordinance No. 25-005, Section 7.06 now states that vehicles may only travel "northerly or northwesterly on the alley running from Walnut Street to Maple Street."  This is the alley that runs between the grocery store and the parking lot in Phillips.

Mayor Charles Peterson said, "A lot of people don't realize that the middle of the parking lot, when you are driving by, that alley is still an alley.  The parking lot is toward Hwy. 13.  There's still an alley that goes through there, so when somebody's in that alleyway, the people in the parking lot got to yield to the people in the alley."

Penalties were also added to the ordinance, stating, "Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a penalty as provided in Section 25.04 of the Municipal Code."

Before penalties were written into the ordinance, Chief Mike Hauschild said his hands were tied.  At a previous meeting, he stated that residents would report people traveling the wrong way down the alley.  Officers would often see people traveling the wrong way, and sometimes the people would admit to knowing it is a one-way alley and purposefully traveling the wrong way.  Now penalties can be given as a result of driving the wrong way in the alley, which includes the part of the alley that many people think is part of the parking lot.  It is not part of the parking lot; it is a one-way alley.

The mayor noted that there are signs there, but people aren't following them.

A resident of the alley thanked the council for addressing the issue.

The ordinance also officially removed Turner Street as a one-way street.  Turner Street is in front of the former elementary school and was changed back to a two-way street.

There was a unanimous vote to approve the revisions.


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