Letter: Concerned about speeding on Legacy Parkway

I drive Legacy Parkway almost every day and am concerned about the changes that will be made in the coming year.

I drive this two-lane road with calming scenery and a slower speed limit so that I arrive at my destination safe and serene. I am having a hard time understanding the reasoning for increasing the speed limit and allowing semitrucks to travel on this road. I set my cruise control to 58 or 60 miles per hour because if I set it any slower, I would be run off the road by people going 70 miles per hour.

According to a recent article in this paper, the Utah Highway Patrol is aware that people are going 70 miles per hour and have done nothing to stop them. If people were going 85 miles per hour on I-15, would the Highway Patrol stop them? At what point do people who disobey the laws of the road get punished for their actions? When they kill someone?

Legacy is a two-lane road and if trucks are allowed, and were driving 75-80 miles per hour, would the big electronic sign overhead still say, “Zero fatalities, the only acceptable goal”?

My solution to arriving safely at my destination is to use Main Street and Highway 89 after the first of the year. I pray the rest of those driving on Legacy will survive the new rules.

Kathy Smock

Farmington

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