Ellen Birrell: UDOTâs Wasatch Boulevard plan is dangerous by design
State plan encourages more and faster auto traffic, ignoring transit, bikes and pedestrians.
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r Brent Jakobson, wife Elena Jakobson and Tiffany Skelton, who live on New Heritage Drive in West Jordan protested during a ceremony, Monday, Nov 19, 2018, celebrating completion of a $208 million project that converted four intersections into freeway-like interchanges at 5400 South, 7000 South, 9000 South and 11400 South. They complain that while a new sound wall being built at the 9000 South interchange will tower 11 feet above Bangerter, it will only be a couple of feet tall in their back yards which are at a much higher elevation â saying that creates a danger for children in the area, and also may not do much to reduce noise. Monday, Nov 19, 2018.
Richard Lamoureux, a collision reconstruction expert from DFA Engineering Services Inc., presented his report to court Tuesday, deconstructing the incident as four collisions, not one.
Lamoureux said his report was based on a combination of video from the bus, data that was downloaded from the bus by investigators and police reports. He said he did not interview Diallo.
Court was shown video from the back of the bus that showed a stop request sign was lit at 3:49 p.m., a little more than a minute before the crash.
Lamoureux said the double-decker s movement was gradual and resembled a lane change to do a stop at Westboro station.
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Finding ways to get motorists to slow down on residential streets has been a longtime issue in Pittsburgh.
City council members Tuesday took action to lobby for more authority to decrease speed limits in some neighborhoods. It’s something they’re not allowed to do under state law.
“We know that slower speeds save lives,” Councilwoman Deb Gross said before council unanimously passed a measure calling for state reforms that would allow local governments to set speed limits.
Budget Update
Lawmakers moved closer this week to crafting a FY 2021-22 State
Budget. Senate and House full budget committees met this week
to pass their respective spending plans (SB 2500 and HB 5001) teeing them
up for debate, possible amendments, and passage on the full floor
of the chambers. Budget conference will be called subsequently to
hammer out remaining differences, including spending on education,
health care and the environment.
Currently the House spends $97.1 billion, while the Senate is
at $95 billion. Both chambers are proposing putting aside $5
billion for reserves. Although, COVID has taken a toll on budget
revenues over the last year, actual revenues have been consistently