Traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon
This is my comment on the Utah Department of Transportation's plans to "to provide an integrated transportation system that improves the reliability, mobility and safety for residents, visitors, and commuters who use S.R. 210." This is long, but I have tried to order it in such a way that the most important points come first, so don't give up now. At least read the first 3 paragraphs, please. First and foremost I'd like to ask, what problem are we really trying to solve? Roughly 355 days a year there are no reliability, mobility, or safety problems on S.R. 210. The weather is good, the roads are clean and clear, and traffic flows at or above the speed limit of the road. We all need to understand that the problems with reliability, mobility, and safety only happen about 10 days a year, if the skiers are lucky and we get that many big snow storms. Mobility Congestion on roads is annoying, but we need to seek to understand it before we try to fix it. Congesti...