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JUB Engineers brief Smithfield Council on transportation master plan; UDOT funded study and multi-million-dollar projects highlighted
Summary
JUB Engineers presented a transportation master-plan update that uses recent traffic counts and regional modeling, cites $90,000 in UDOT technical planning assistance, and recommends prioritizing five road corridors for the next five years (1000 East, 800 West, 250 East, 400 North and 680 North); councilors pressed for stronger county and CMPO coordination on offloading Main Street traffic.
Quinn Dance of JUB Engineers presented an update to Smithfield’s Transportation Master Plan, outlining methodology, modeling assumptions and prioritized capital projects. Dance said the plan relies on traffic counts performed at nine locations and regional modeling from the Cache Metropolitan Planning Organization (CMPO) and noted that a UDOT technical planning assistance grant contributed $90,000 to the work.
The plan groups townwide needs into geographic areas and recommends a first five-year priority list that includes improvements on 1000 East, 800 West, 250 East, 400 North and 680 North. Dance said one multi-block segment of 1000 East was estimated at about $15,000,000 and that the full plan (including appendices with turning-movement counts) spans several hundred pages. The plan uses Federal Highway functional classifications to guide which roads qualify for federal funding and assigns typical right-of-way and pavement-width standards to collectors and arterials.
Council members asked about coordination with neighboring jurisdictions and the county, and several raised Main Street congestion and the difficulty of creating bypasses given local constraints such as the airport and county-owned segments of 1000 East. Staff and JUB referenced an upcoming joint US-91 study with Logan, North Logan, Hyde Park and UDOT to study alternatives for shifting traffic off Main Street. Quinn, Justin and city staff emphasized that many recommended projects will require county, regional or federal funding and long lead times.
The presentation also emphasized staging: the plan breaks projects into 0–5 year priorities and longer-term phases, and includes suggested intersection treatments (including roundabouts) and guidance on when traffic-impact studies should be required for new development. No formal council action was taken; staff and council members requested the consultants and staff return with more detail and cost breakdowns at a future meeting.
