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Midway staff report: River Road light delayed by property dispute; traffic-tube counts and Safe Streets grant update
Summary
City staff updated council on the delayed River Road traffic signal tied to a homeowner reimbursement dispute, presented multi-year traffic-tube data used to inform speed and volume, and said the city believes it may have been awarded a Safe Streets for All grant but cannot yet confirm.
City staff told the Midway City Council that the long-anticipated traffic signal at River Road has been delayed and is now scheduled for construction in spring after a homeowner filing over a reimbursement stalled the project.
Staff said the signal project is bid and awarded but was delayed roughly nine months because a local property owner contested the reimbursement offered by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and pursued legal remedies. "That just stalled the project for about 9 months," a staff member said, and staff reported UDOT indicated construction should move forward next spring.
Council staff and public-works presenters also summarized multi-year traffic data collected with portable traffic tubes. Presenters said the tubes are placed for about a week in comparable locations to capture average daily traffic (ADT), peak-hour counts and 80th-percentile speeds — the speed at or below which 80% of vehicles travel. The city uses the 80th-percentile measure as a standard for assessing appropriate speed settings and comparing year-to-year changes. Presenters noted occasional anomalies in the dataset when special events (for example a dog/sheepdog competition) skewed counts and when mechanical interference (children playing on tubes) produced false readings.
Staff said the River Road segment sees a concentration of left turns between 4 and 6 p.m. and that the traffic-tube counts generally fall within roughly 10% of formal traffic studies filed with the city for new development, adding confidence to the tubes’ comparability.
Separately, staff described work on a Safe Streets for All grant application the city has submitted in multiple years. Staff said they believe Midway may have been awarded funding this cycle but could not confirm because they had not yet reached a live contact at the administering agency to verify the award. If awarded, staff said the grant would help fund multiple town projects, including a redesigned pedestrian crossing between Town Hall and the Galleria.
Council members asked for the electronic data and staff offered to provide an Excel or PDF export of the traffic-tube results for further review.
