{"id":6421,"date":"2016-12-16T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2016-12-16T21:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:55:28","slug":"we-have-a-solution-to-park-city-traffic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/16\/we-have-a-solution-to-park-city-traffic-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a solution to Park City traffic problems &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after years of careful analysis we have found a solution to alleviate traffic problems in Park City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAKE THE DAMN TRAFFIC LIGHTS WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning from approximately 7AM, until well past 8AM, the traffic lights at the Kimball Junction exit all flashed red. What&#8217;s the impact of blinking red lights? In this case traffic was backed up from the I-80 offramp,\u00a0all the way back onto I-80, to the Hi Ute Barn. That&#8217;s almost a mile.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t uncommon this summer for the lights at Highway 224 and Ute Boulevard to be out, causing a similar traffic impact (often at rush hour).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sure that the county would tell us that the lights are the responsibility of UDOT. And that&#8217;s true. However, almost every solution that the county has presented with regard to traffic requires working with UDOT. Whether it&#8217;s roundabouts at Jeremy Ranch\/Pinebrook or widening Highway 248 as promised with the sales tax increase, UDOT is the man.<\/p>\n<p>Which begs the question, if we can&#8217;t get them to effectively manage traffic\u00a0lights, which cause huge traffic issues for us, how do we have\u00a0faith that a\u00a0roundabout next to an elementary school is going to be done safely?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been told not to worry because the county will work with them to ensure the public&#8217;s\u00a0needs are met. However, when we see traffic lights with continual issues that cause huge problems, it makes us\u00a0question that. It makes us ask the question, &#8220;if you can&#8217;t work together to get a traffic light right, can you really design and implement Utah&#8217;s most complicated round-about ever designed?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We guess we&#8217;ll see, but we have a\u00a0little less faith as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after years of careful analysis we have found a solution to alleviate traffic problems in Park City. MAKE THE DAMN TRAFFIC LIGHTS WORK&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}