One Milwaukee neighborhood is fed up with what’s happening in their own front yards and has turned to WISN 12 News for help. It’s a stretch of Silver Spring Drive just west of 76th Street. The stretch is set up like a highway’s on-ramp with several homes alongside it. Neighbors describe seeing cars constantly ignoring the 40 mph speed limit. “Everybody thinks it’s a freeway,” longtime resident JT Primer said. “They run 70 to 80 mph sometimes.”Neighbors said the reckless driving has sent cars and their wreckage into yards. One car even hit and seriously damaged a nearby home earlier this year. “That’s been a problem for years, for years. This is a bad intersection right here,” Primer added. Neighbors said nearby construction has only made matters worse. Security cameras have captured vehicles bypassing construction barriers and driving up on the curb and through lawns. It has some now looking …
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