All right, welcome everyone.

Sorry, we're a little bit more.

First thing we need to do is have a motion to close our let's do that last.

Let's go to the other two.

Thank you.

We're gonna have a report on the traffic committee by Scott.

Go ahead, sir.

Generate some enthusiasm.

So this isn't I'm gonna say the math tends to be.

It's up at the top.

Yeah.

Yes, it's gonna be challenging.

I want to move.

All right.

I know we have at least one new council member, and some of you may not know what the traffic committee does.

So I thought I'd just talk a little bit about who the traffic committee is and what we do.

And I know there's at least two people here who sat on the traffic committee at least once.

Um three, take that three.

Uh so the traffic really I counted up the number of individuals.

We have about nine on the committee, and it is comprised of four engineers, uh our traffic are our streets manager, um, we have someone from community development, someone from police, we have our um fire marshal, and we also have someone from legal, and these are monthly meetings that we hold, and primarily what we do uh the back in the day, uh city would get traffic complaints, you know, police would get them, engineering would get them, public works would get them, uh administration would get them, you guys, you know, city council members would get them.

There really wasn't a good way to address it.

So we set up this committee to do that.

That's the that was the impetus of this committee.

And it's been about 11 years ago since we started it.

And uh it's been great.

Uh it's probably one of the most important meetings that I go to on a regular basis, I would say, because we accomplish a lot.

We take all of the complaints that we get, um, all of the recommendations, we take them seriously, and we analyze them.

Sometimes it just takes a very, very long time for us to come up with a solution.

Uh sometimes we may never come up with an adequate solution.

Probably talk about one of those today.

Um but the important thing is that we one of the things our main objective is to make Draper safer.

Um it's by the input of citizens and yourselves that we're able to analyze these different situations and determine if there is a safety issue or not.

Um sometimes our recommendations are not always the logical thing that you would expect from us.

Um you may want a flashing stop sign, and we actually do the analysis and we end up taking the stop sign out.

Um that's happened.

So uh understand that uh once we start looking at an issue, we have to look at it the right way from what we have to comply with the laws and stop signs, traffic signals, actually, any sign um has to follow uh the what's called the M U T C D manual manual on uniform traffic control devices, and it's what standardizes everything in the country.

So little pop quiz.

If you're on an interstate and it ends in a five, or you go north or south or east or west.

Typically, and if it's uh if it's an even number, it's typically use less.

So things like that, right?

They're they're um standardizations.

Um if you're on a uh I-215 typically that's gonna be uh a loop that starts off of I-15 and you come back to I I fifteen, so it's a bus typically a business route.

So there are the the standardized um this standardized methodology.

So when you're driving in Utah or New York or wherever the expectations are the same.

So one of the I'm gonna cover just a few little uh projects that we've been not necessarily projects, but situations that we've looked at for a very long time.

One is on Long Peak at APA.

This is a this is an area, yeah, and we get a lot of comments on this, um, as I'm sure all you of you do too, because it's a it's a problem area, and our priority is again safety.

So we're looking at is there something that we can do to make this safer.

We can't control the charter school, uh they're there, and they bring a lot of traffic, um, and and it really gumps things up.

Um so I can tell you right now, we've done a lot of analysis, we've done multiple studies on this, and even recently, uh trying to come up with some solutions to what we know are our existing um safety issues.

So one is as vehicles uh exit APA.

Um if there's no one here now the school they try to have someone there, but sometimes they're not there.

If they're not, um looks just take, for example, when we did counts, um a hundred over a hundred vehicles turned left out of here.

There's supposed to be no left turns.

When there is someone there, zero.

So there's there's clearly a need for P vehicles to go north, and you can't do that turning out of here.

So you're when someone is there, they turn right and then immediately they're trying to uh flip a U-turn and go north.

Um sometimes they'll turn into the businesses uh and and then go through the businesses and get back going north.

So what one of the things that we're looking at is adding uh a median in that that extends from near election road all the way up to 1150 that would prohibit those illegal U-turns and the left turns, it would force all of the traffic to this intersection, which is signalized.

Um we've also looked at is this the best place for this signal?