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- Mona resident would like to see speed decreased at edge of Mona city limits
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By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
It would help to lower the speed limit in Mona at 700 South.
Zack Buck, Mona resident and certified residential appraiser, told commissioners that the way things are, the road is dangerous.
At 700 South, he said, the speed limit is 35 miles per hour (mph).
"I would like to see that speed extend for four more miles," he said.
The speed is 45 mph from 799 South to the bend in the road near the turn off for Burraston Ponds, he said.
Buck has a home and a building lot in that area and he thinks pulling off or onto the highway is dangerous. He said a young woman in Sanpete County was killed in an accident in a similar area.
"You want the speed limit decreased to 35 mph to the actual city limits?" asked Byron Woodland, county commission chairman.
Buck said he would like the speed to remain at 35 mph for a bit further than the city limits. He would like it to continue for another .6 miles toward the Burraston Ponds turnoff.
Then the speed could increase to 45 mph and then to 55 mph.
There is no procedure such as a public hearing that needs to be followed prior to changing the speed limit, said Jared Eldridge, county attorney.
The north end of the road, which is Main Street in the city, is already using the pattern he was proposing, said Buck.
Rick Carlton, commissioner, said that the proposal should be noticed for two weeks. It will not be a public hearing that the commission will hold at the next commission meeting but, rather, will be an opportunity for the commission to take public comment on the proposal.
Carlton is a Mona resident and said that there were no turn lanes on the roadway. In fact, the roadway needs to be wider so that turn lanes could be built. The shoulder is narrow, he said.
Developers of the subdivisions there should have been required to build turn lanes into the subdivisions from the main highway, US 91.
Clinton Painter, commissioner, said that he was wondering if the county should not consider widening the road. There would be more growth in the area and as the area grows widening the road might be something to consider.
The roadway between Mona and Nephi is a two-lane highway.
Lynn Ingram, interim county road superintendent, said that Buck had brought the need for a change in the speed limits on the roadway to the Mona planning commission.
When asked what he thought about making the change, he said that the county road department was in the business of moving traffic but public safety was always a priority.
He said as developers built homes along the highway, they should be required to put in turn lanes or widen the roadway.
"We should require that," said Ingram.
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