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Cottonwood Heights debates transportation priorities: safety, convenience and cost
Summary
Council members and planning staff spent the largest portion of a Dec. 16 work session on a contested transportation chapter, debating whether to prioritize reducing fatalities and serious injuries or maximizing motorist level of service, and urged more technical study and maintenance planning.
Cottonwood Heights officials spent the bulk of their Dec. 16 planning work session debating competing aims for the city’s transportation plan: whether to prioritize reducing serious injuries and fatalities or to emphasize the traditional goal of efficient vehicle movement.
The discussion centered on a transportation mission read into the record by Speaker 4: “The mission of Cottonwood Heights transportation system is to reduce serious injuries and fatalities by designing safe, efficient, and accessible ways for everyone to travel, whether walking, biking, rolling, taking transit, or driving.” That statement framed a sustained exchange among council members and staff about trade-offs embedded in roadway…
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