Letter: 'Our family walks and bikes and takes the bus almost everywhere. And in the Avenues, cars are already the greatest threat to our personal safety, not buses,' writes Lee in Salt Lake City.
A Utah Transit Authority bus travels east on 3rd Avenue at M Street, Friday, May 13, 2022. UTA is changing several bus routes in and around the Avenues and some community members have been protesting through fliers and on social media.some Avenues residents
raised “safety concerns” about coming changes to UTA bus routes through their neighborhood, which is also my neighborhood. If you feel persuaded by any of the authors’ arguments, I encourage you to stop reading and laugh out loud at what they describe as “neighborhood bonding enhanced by the safety of our streets.”
Our family walks and bikes and takes the bus almost everywhere. And in the Avenues, cars are already the greatest threat to our personal safety, not buses. We fear cars that don’t stop at stop signs, cars that don’t obey the speed limit, cars that don’t yield at crosswalks.
Some people who live on L Street want the bus to travel on J or K streets. Some people who live on 9th Avenue want the bus to travel on 11th Avenue. Well, of course that’s your alternative. Our family welcomes the new Avenues routes, including the one that will now run right in front of our house seven days per week from early morning until late at night. In the face of warming temperatures, depleted reservoirs, and a Great Salt Lake that we will all soon be inhaling, the correct response to UTA improvements is “Yes, please.”
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