Salt Lake City announced a new partnership Thursday with the Utah Department of Transportation to combat pedestrian deaths after at least five people were struck and killed by vehicles across the Wasatch Front this week.
Mendenhall said it would be up to the task force to consider such a speed limit and determine where it would be most effective. Then, the task force could propose it to her, or the city council.
“So whether that’s city-wide, or strategically in certain streets in the city, this cross-department team will help us determine that,” Mendenhall said. Crime scene investigators work the scene of fatal auto-pedestrian crash near the intersection of 900 E. 1700 South in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. A woman and her daughter were struck on a sidewalk when a car drove over a curb and hit them, police said.The Utah Department of Transportation is currently working on over 800 projects to create safer roads throughout the state, director Carlos Braceras said, and the agency will now commit $4.
The department also will provide a 50% increase to its “Safe Routes to School” program, which provides improvements along roadways where children frequently walk or bike to and from class. And the agency plans to engage with sobriety programs to better understand how they can reach — and prevent — people who may choose to drive under the influence.
“Let’s try to learn from them ... how could we have gotten to them when they weren’t sober, that might have made a difference — so we can help those that are experiencing difficulty in their life figure out how to be safe on the roadways,” Braceras said. “Because I guarantee you, people care about people.”
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