Archive for December, 2014

Notes on the Speed Limit

Recently the speed limits for I-15, I-215, and I-80 in Salt Lake County have increased from 65mph to 70mph (with the exception of a few areas on I-80). This has caused quite the debate on the SL Tribune, Deseret News, and KSL sites.

Under many layers of emotional appeal, opponents of the idea seem to have a few major points:
1 – Decreased safety
2 – Increased emissions

I intend to show that both of these are relatively groundless, at least for the time being. I will also show a few other things that may be contributing to the change.  It should be noted beforehand that I’m in favor of the increase.

Read past the break for more details…


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Saturday, December 13th, 2014 Other No Comments

Trax Trouble

While driving in downtown Salt Lake in the vicinity of the Gateway, there was a lady crossing the crosswalk (against the red light) that nearly got hit by a Trax train. She noticed there were no cars coming and elected to walk across the road; missing the approaching train. Only a short blast of the train’s horn stopped her from running in front of it (the horn isn’t audible because the YT video is muted for copyrighted music playing in the car, as usual).


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Friday, December 12th, 2014 Videos No Comments