A bill of concern that impacts health, safety and well-being of our extended community is SB 242.
Once ill-informed legislators pass this bill, it sets precedent for UDOT to possibly restrict the municipal authority of other cities such as Cottonwood Heights.
Transportation — mobility — is a basic human need. In reading SB 242, they are looking to restrict a municipality from their goal of eliminating vehicular serious injury and fatalities. In this area of improving safety, UDOT has failed.
Let’s have safer streets, healthier citizens and our best quality of life,
Ellen Birrell
Cottonwood Heights District 4 Council Member
ebirrell@ch.utah.gov
“We keep doing things the old way, and not solving any of our (transportation & air quality) problems. What we need to be doing is making it easier to not drive.”
— Susan Handy, professor of environmental science and policy/UC Davis, and author of "Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking about Transportation"