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South Salt Lake mobility plan update emphasizes safety, sidewalks, trails and short-term priorities
Summary
City mobility planner Carl Osberg presented a mobility plan update that highlights rising crash trends, recommends focused five-year actions and proposes two addenda to the city’s 2020 mobility plan. The public outreach-informed update prioritizes pedestrian safety, sidewalk/trail gaps, curb management and localized traffic-calming measures.
Carl Osberg, South Salt Lake’s mobility planner, briefed the Planning Commission on a mobility plan update at the commission’s July 10 work meeting, summarizing outreach, existing conditions and proposed short-term priorities. Osberg described the approach as producing two addenda to the 2020 mobility plan—one documenting data and outreach and the other a focused “next five years” guidance document—rather than rewriting the entire plan.
Osberg said newer regional data changed the team’s priorities since 2020: regional safety analysis and the Utah Household Travel Survey (2023) helped identify that serious and fatal crashes have risen in recent years, counter to earlier trends. He said the update will re-prioritize items the community still values but where the city has made little progress, and advance items that are actionable in the next five years.
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