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Committee backs local flexibility on gravel-road speed limits and hears stark budget pressures on county roads
Summary
YDOT and county engineers told the interim committee that county roads face rising material and equipment costs, constrained local budgets and condition issues; the committee approved drafting a bill to let counties set unpaved-road speed limits between 45–55 mph without a speed study.
Wyoming’s interim Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs committee spent more than two hours Tuesday on county roads, speed limits and funding pressures, hearing technical briefings from the Wyoming Department of Transportation and local county engineers and approving a bill-draft motion to give counties more local control over unpaved speed limits.
Darren Westby, YDOT director, and Mark Gillette, YDOT chief engineer, explained the department’s statutory role: state law (Title 31, Chapter 5, Article 3 as cited in the briefing) establishes statutory speed limits and requires an engineering and traffic study (and compliance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and other design standards) to change them. Gillette told the committee…
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