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Resident safety expert questions street widths and new fire-truck need, warns wider streets encourage speeding
Summary
A resident and safety engineer told the council that wide local streets — designed to accommodate large fire apparatus — encourage speeding and have contributed to pedestrian deaths; he urged the city to reconsider purchasing a larger fire truck and to explore alternatives.
A resident who identified himself as a safety engineer for the Air Force told the council on July 8 that Layton’s wide streets contribute to speeding and pedestrian deaths and criticized a proposal discussed in a prior session to acquire a large fire truck.
Michael Christiansen cited multiple local traffic fatalities and…
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