This improvement is crucial!
Traffic moves quickly in both directions. Visibility from ring road looking north is obscured due to slight bend and hilly contour.
My family has had near misses, nearly getting rear ended at high speed, while waiting northbound on redwood road making that left onto ring road.
Why every other intersection south of this one(where populations are lower) has much safer solutions, does not make sense.
Please help make this happen!

While it is true there are problems, there is a much bigger problem at Fairway and Redwood just 1/4 mile away. That intersection serves many more homes and there is room to allow for turn lanes there, while there is not at Ring Rd.

Four times in 15 months cars have turned left from ring road into northbound redwood road, right in front of me causing near misses (I was traveling southbound on redwood road). Two of those occasions caused me to hit my brakes and swerve. I've seen it happen to cars in front of me, too. I honestly get scared everything I approach that intersection!

Having used the ring road and fairway intersections heavily over the last 10 years (two different homes) I would say the ring road intersection is by far the greater safety risk and should be addressed first. Fairway has greater visibility and established turn and acceleration lanes, ring road does not. Not to mention the speed limit change happens back at the first light but I believe most people continue in the 50s at least until ring road. There is a higher probability of reduced speeds at the fairway intersection.

I'm not excited for another light but I think without it we are only going to tempt a fatal accident as the population goes up.

UDOT Administration u xilsaaray arrinkan UDOT Region 3

I think a traffic light would be better served at Fairway and Redwood. More populous area, there's power and room there to do it. This will serve the First responders at Ring Road as well, as they can activate the light and the one that's in place further north as they leave the station.

All that having been said, good idea getting this started. The "experts" need to do something. I hope this gets some traction and good things happen.

This intersection is very dangerous. Cars come racing both directions as we try to cross redwood going north. There isn't a good view looking north to see approaching vehicles and I've seen very close calls there. I also see joggers trying to cross the road to the trails which is not safe. Please send a surveyor out for a few days and you will see what we are reporting. Thank you for your time.

The Utah Department of Transportation has received your request and we will be looking into the issue. Thank you for taking the time to let us know.

This is a dangerous intersection for a myriad of reasons. Hope that those in charge make the right decision and correct the problem before soneone gets killed or seriously injured.

I can certainly understand the desire to have a light there. However, I think there are compelling reasons to have it at Fairway vs Ring Road.

First of all, whenever you put in a traffic light, the goal should be to serve the greatest population per light. A Ring Rd light would serve a smaller portion of Jacobs Ranch. One at Fairway would serve all of Jacobs Ranch, Summerhill and the golf course area including that newer area with all those homes. It would be much easier for those in upper JR to travel down to Fairway than get the more southern areas to go to Ring Road.

Second, geography would favor at Fairway. Ring is a single lane without room for turn lanes or left turn lanes. Those are already in place at Fairway. The downslope to Fairway makes visibility good to see as you approach to know you have to stop, while the placement on the hill at Ring could make sudden stops just as accident-prone as not having it.

Third, and this is the kicker, if you have sat, literally for 10 minutes trying to turn left from Fairway to Redwood northbound, you know something needs done there. With the larger population and traffic issues, it makes more sense there. Ring would benefit from this light as well, as it would stop traffic to allow those drivers to go north when it turns. Given morning and evening traffic patterns, Ring would benefit from a Fairway light. Fairway would not benefit from the Ring light.

The Traffic Operations Engineer for UDOT Region Three reports that we will evaluate this location in regard to the request for a signal. Thank you.

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