Chris joins FOX 13 after spending seven-and-a-half years at KSNW, the NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, where he served as a bureau reporter, multimedia journalist and eventually Sports Director.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is quickly approaching the"100 Deadliest Days of Summer," the time period between Memorial Day and Labor Day when road fatalities are nearly double compared to the rest of the year.
"It's pretty busy street, multiple lanes of traffic," said Salt Lake City Transportation Director Jon Larsen."We wanted to create a safer place for people to cross.""The high curve that bulbs out, you can see that it provides kind of a safe place for people to wait for traffic to stop," he explained."You can push a button and you get some flashing lights, we call it a rectangular rapid flashing beacon, and that helps get driver's attention.
"The city, a couple of years ago, developed a Livable Streets Program which is basically traffic calming to help make our neighborhoods more safe and comfortable for everyone to slow people down," said Larsen."That program is built around this idea of breaking the city down into 113 different neighborhood zones."
The transportation department has received about $2 million a year the last two years for the program, and another $300,000 a year for what are called quick action projects. Larsen says those projects are semi-permanent enhancements to do a little bit of triage in targeted areas, until they can come to the neighborhood and do more permanent installations."We're trying to make it so that, people aren't seriously hurt or killed on our, on our street network," said Larsen.
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