Transportation update:
Logan City opens its first bike lanes
Officials hope ongoing project will encourage drivers to share roads
By Alan Murray A bicyclist rides up 500 North in a new bike lane in Logan on Friday.
Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:00 am | Updated: 8:34 pm, Sun Apr 25, 2010.
By Jay Patrick | 11 comments
Logan - There were no close calls as two young men - one wearing red-and-white stripped furry headphones - flew down 500 North on Saturday afternoon. The cars stayed in their lanes, the young men in theirs. No confusion.
Those bike lanes are Logan's first.
The seemingly worry-free smooth stretch is an anomaly in the city, which some say is bike-unfriendly.
In all, Logan plans to make seven miles of roadway more bike-friendly. Those roads will either have lanes or sharrows someday. Sharrows are markings on streets meant to remind drivers that bikes are around and to show a general part of the street where they would cruise. Sharrows are used on streets not wide enough for lanes.
Streets slated for lanes or sharrows include 700 East, 700 North, 1200 East, 1000 North, 200 East, 100 West, 100 North and the Boulevard. Work on those streets won't happen this year because city crews are already booked for other jobs, Nielsen said.
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UDOT to extend 200 East
Road project part of larger effort to get cars off Main
Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 12:15 am | Updated: 11:31 am, Wed Apr 28, 2010.
By Jay Patrick | 6 comments
Logan - A road project that's part of a larger effort to get cars off Main Street is moving again after stalling in 2009.
Lack of money to continue analysis and a lack of consensus among officials about what form a revamped road should take put the kibosh last year on progress to extend 200 East across farmland from 2200 North to 3700 North, which is Center Street in Hyde Park.
Meanwhile, the county is continuing work extending 200 East from 1800 North to 2200 North.
The envisioned new stretch on the north end goes along with studies Logan is now doing on proposed improvements to 200 East between 1400 North and 300 South. The project's first phase runs from Center Street to 300 South and could include a roundabout and pedestrian underpass at Center Street. Studies should be done by fall with a public hearing to follow. Construction is set to start in spring 2011.
A new-and-improved 200 East running the length of the central valley would be but one step in unclogging Main Street.
The project to widen 1000 West is another element, as is possible construction of a highway farther west.
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