I've reported this to the city directly before and they said everything's fine!

Agreed. I live right on this corner and I can testify to the fact that everything is not fine, Salt Lake City. The number of near-accidents I have witnessed is staggering. I wholeheartedly agree that this intersection needs to be fixed. However, I believe the intersecting street, Goltz, needs a stop sign (both for the south and north turns) rather than West Temple having a yield. Where else do you have an perpendicular, intersecting street that has the right of away over the traffic on the main, straight-through street being intersected? I know Jefferson into Goltz is a one-way, but it is never backed up off to warrant the right of way.

While we are talking about the Jefferson one way, can we also get a 4 way stop sign where Jefferson crosses Mead right under the overpass; people fly through there and a little girl has already been killed. Again there is not enough traffic coming that way, even off the freeway to justify only a 2 way stop. Put a blinking sign before the underpass to warn of the upcoming stop.

I agree, Mel. It’s a horrible interchange design, and local traffic should never have been diverted through there. Too many people zip right through there. Somehow they should have made SB West Temple offramp merge with local traffic ON West Temple. The mixed traffic on West Temple is already a “feature” of living on West Temple on those blocks. I grew up there so I know.

So sad that a little girl was killed :-( I see the cross there and remember how risky it was to cross that street on foot when I was growing up there. How tragic and unnecessary.

hanks for chiming in. I hope Mayer Jackie is paying attention here. :)

The Utah Department of Transportation has received your request and we will be looking into the issue. Thank you for taking the time to let us know.

Alicia - UDOT Region 2 Traffic Operations assigned this issue to Marge - UDOT Region 2 Traffic Engineer

Marge - UDOT Region 2 Traffic Engineer assigned this issue to Kyle E. - UDOT Region 2 Traffic Operations

Hi Joni,

I have looked at the intersection in question and understand your frustrations. But unfortunately this is not a UDOT intersection. I have Informed Scott Vaterlaus with Salt Lake City of the issue and a possible solution. Sorry for the inconvenience. Have a good day and drive safely.

Thanks,

Thanks Kyle, and I understand that this intersection isn’t in UDOT’s scope of work. However I want the issue to remain open on SeeClickFix. Please re-open and refer to SLC? Thanks.

Please re-open or I’ll open a new case. This issue has not been addressed by the city of Salt Lake. We need action on this intersection.

I would like for the city to change the intersection so that people like me have to stop (not yield) and cars traveling south on West Temple (from the freeway exit or local traffic ) have the right of way. Doing nothing is irresponsible and ignoring issues facing an already ignored area of town.

I can't refer it to SLC from here. I have sent a Email to Scott Vaterlaus with SLC.

This issue has not yet been resolved. It has been referred to Scott Vaterlaus with SLC by Kyle from UDOT. Please keep this open until it has been resolved (as in, intersection right-of-way and signage changed to resolve dangerous issue). Thanks everyone.

This issue was recategorized from Signage to Uncategorized.

Any chance this will get fixed? The mayors office has responded favorably but what are y’all doing to resolve this issue?

I guess this old neighborhood isn’t important enough for you to do anything about this?? I’ve given you all the information you need to deal with this.

Absolutely nothing has been done to mitigate the risk of traffic incidents in this intersection. I'm damned sure that if this was an issue in Sugarhouse or 15th&15th--this would have been resolved instead of kicking the can down the road because this neighborhood isn't important. I grew up in this neighborhood but I have also owned homes in Sugarhouse(2) and 15th & 15th(1). The difference in how the city responds to requests here versus there is alarming.