Parents near Silver Crest Elementary in Herriman are frustrated with the city's temporary solution for a school crossing, calling it unsafe and demanding immediate action for a permanent fix. The current configuration forces students to walk a longer route across busy streets, raising safety concerns.
Parents near Silver Crest Elementary in Herriman have tired of a "band-aid" approach to a school crossing configuration they call unsafe and are urging city officials to step quickly toward a permanent fix.
KUTV “I am fed up,” said Braden Knutson, a father with kids at the school. “I smile, but I am so done with this. Something's got to be done." A crosswalk on Herriman’s Main Street goes straight from the school property to a neighborhood to the south — a mere 17 second walk. This year, kids are being routed east to the next intersection, which has a traffic light, where they cross, then walk west, back to the same neighborhood — which keeps children near and on the busy street for more than five minutes."It needs to be addressed," she said, "and it hasn't been addressed sufficiently."Santa Clara-Ivins police respond to unsafe student behavior in traffic near schools LaFollette said the city is studying to see if the intersection, which would provide straight access, is traffic light worthy — but for now, the city believes the round-about walk is safer.Taylor and Knutson said they've contacted the city for years — a decade or more. "You're making them walk a longer way home,” said dad Val Timothy, who called the configuration dangerous. “If there were a signal light, they could just cross over."
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