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Home My WebLink About29267 / 77-01Decem�er 15, 1977 � � RESOLUTION PURPOSE: SUBMIT APPLICATION �RANT FOR FREE BUS SERVIC� ON NEV�I YEAR'S EVE INITLATID BY : DEPAR�IQ�IT OF CC�^�tJNTTY DEVETAPMQVTt WI�',REAS, New Year's Eve has bzen tradz+.:ionally a ni.ght on which there have been n�ur�erous injuries and fatalities due to traffic accidents; and [��RF,AS, there are F�-aaral funds available through the State Office of Highway Safety f�z• a bas service proyram on New Year's Eve; and WE�?�AS, the flu:ds tiaouid provide 1�Os of the cost of operation of the buses, the bus service will be free; and Wf�RE,A.S, the City of Osh.ltiosh proposes to charter from City Z�ansit L�ines, Inc. six (6) bus�s to aperate on th� rec,rular city bus routes from 6:10 P.M. on Dec�.ber 31, 1977 to 3:40 A.M. c�n J�nuwry l, 1978; NOti9 Tf�EREF'OFtE, BE IT RF,SOI�UED by the Comm�n Council of the City of Osh.kosh that the proper City officials are hereby authorized and direct�d to file an application caith tYie State for th�� n�cessar� and a�vailable fund� an� � contract with City Transit I�ines, Iric;. for the charter of six (6) bus�s, the total cast not to exce�d $1,600.00. SUBMITTED �x � i �� , �� - 6 ,. �,,, ... 1_t ._ /_ ' � j, ��F `(�' !Gt �C U ��1:f�`'t:�� Part � � �� . �� 1 �� + +� 1,,��; �� f�(� .��''+E'C� .� i�� , � i�17 By Charies E. Friederich Journal Madison Bureau . bladison, Wis. . — Free New Year's Eve bus rides � will be offered in at least six commnnities, including Mii- �vaukee, as part of an ex- panded' safe driving effort announced Wednesday by Acting Gov. Schreiber. The free rides will be of- fered from 10 p,m. Dec. 31 to 4 a.m. Jan. 1 in most of the participating cities, aIthough the exact times will �be deter- ' mined locally, according to � Schreiber and officials of the,l OfTice of Highway Safety. � The purpose of the free rides i is to encourage New Year's ; Eve celebrants. to leave their ! cars at home, Schreiber said. j R1ore Might Be Added � Other participating cities will be Madison, I�enosha,; Oshkosh, Racine and Sheboy- gan. More cities might be' added later, Schreiber said. Federal funds will pay bus' drive;s' overtime and other costs, estimated at $20,000 for the six cities. Last New Year's Eve, onIy • Madison and Kenosha partici- � pated in the free rides pro- ; gram. Schreiber also hinted that ' Iegisiation raising the mini- ' mum drinking age to 19 may I not be on his priority list next year. He had stated earlier that he might suppart such legisiation as a traffic safety measure. Er•idence Not Ia Yet He said Wednesday that statistics from Minnesota, tivhich enacted a 19 year old minimum last year, did not yet docvment highway safety improvement as a result of the higher drinking age. Should convincing statistics become available, he wovld reconsider his position, Schreiber said. School officials and others have pushed for an increase 9n the drinking age. Schreiber declined to say if he would sign or veto a bill raising the minimum to 19, should the Legislature pass such a meas- ure. Other highway safety-. ef- forts announced by Schreiber included: • � � Billboards notifying motor- { ists of Wisconsin's new I drunken driving law. Insur- I ance and advertising firms � are sharing the costs of the ' 150 signs; Schreiber said. . Continuation of driver. safety courses for state,em- gloyes. About 13,000 em- � ploy°s have taken the courses and 10,000 more will do so. La w Seerr�s to Help Weekend traffic fatalities have declined and the propor- tion of motorists taking chemical intoxication tests �has increased since the new drunken driving law weht into effect eariier this month, according to Lewis Versnick, head of the State PatroI. There were two fatalities last weekend, compared with four on the comparable weekend of 1976 and nine in 1975. The weekend before there �vas one fatality, com- pared with three on the first weekend of December, 1976, and six on that weekend in 1975. Just under 18°Jo of the motorists arrested for drunk- en driving by special enforce- ment teams the last two weekends refused to take chemical tests of intoxica- tion, Versnik said. Before enactment of the new law, between a third and a half of those who were asked to take the tests refused, the patrol chief said. Versnik emphasized that the statistics were prelimi- nary but said they appeared to indicate that the new law was effective. . The law virtually assures that persons who refuse to take chemical tests of intoxi= cation will lose their drivers' licenses for six months or more, even if they are found not guilty of drunken driving. One weakness of the law, Versnik said, is fhat the new penalty provisions do not go info force until July 1. 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