![]() ![]() On a single bad day in January, a pedestrian was struck by a train during a snowstorm and later died. In March, a hit-and-run driver took down a pole and overhead wires, which started a fire at a TRAX station near University of Utah Hospital. This isn’t the first local passenger train problem involving a car this year. The crossing where this accident happened has no gates, only signals, but drivers should always avoid getting into a train’s path. In 2016, UTA had to fix nearly one gate per day -329 total-costing the system more than $320,000. In UTA’s case, for instance, repair crews frequently have to deal with broken crossing gates caused by inattentive, impatient, or careless drivers. Many collisions with trains take place because drivers ignore safety barriers. If that’s true, it wouldn’t be very surprising. Media coverage suggests that the car was going north on Temple when it went through the intersection and into the path of an eastbound train. The train accident is still under investigation and no fault has been assigned, but from what’s been reported, it appears that the crash may have been avoidable. At the same time, most trains in the area were affected by a power problem (it’s not clear if that was related to the crash). ![]() The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) issued an alert telling drivers to avoid the area, while the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) set up buses to route around the disabled train. and snarled traffic in that part of the city. The May 10 crash happened just before 5:00 p.m. There’s been no further public news on their condition, but we hope that they’re making a speedy recovery. ![]() Police at first feared that the crash might prove fatal to at least one of the victims, but their status was upgraded after they reached the hospital. “We need to keep water in the lake because we can’t afford to have that big new dust source,” Owens said.A woman and a teen were seriously injured early last month when the car they were driving was struck by a TRAX train near 700 South and West Temple in downtown Salt Lake City. The larger lakebed exposed by drought is causing new airborne dust sources that include toxins. “The first thing that needs to happen for clean air in our state is that we not let anything further bad happen to the Great Salt Lake,” said Rep. It’s in the governor’s budget and needs to pass through the executive appropriations committee and both houses. And I think one year is the next logical step,” Briscoe said. “Every time we’ve done zero fare UTA, one day, two days, one month we’ve increased ridership. The committee cochair believes the program could take more cars off the road than any other effort. ![]() I sincerely believe that if we made it free for a year, we’ll get a lot more people trying it out,” Weiler said.Ĭollectively Utahns drive 60 million miles a day along the Wasatch Front in 1 million different vehicles. “The only way that we are going to manage growth through my district is to get more people to ride the train, and there are barriers to getting people to do that the first time. Weiler points out there’s no room for another highway through his district of Davis County between the mountains and the Great Salt Lake. A measure is proposed to make fares free for a year on UTA. ![]()
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