July 27, 2022 |
The Carbon County Commissioners last week passed a single resolution setting speed limits on five county roads.
Resolution 2022-32 set speed limits on county roads 203, 451, 291, 401, and 351. The new speed limits were based on a study conducted by Wyoming T2, a technology center in at the University of Wyoming that assists local communities in gaining technical transportation knowledge.
Among the changes are Carbon County Road 203 – Brush Creek Road – 40 miles per hour, except in residential sections which will remain at 20 miles an hour.
Road and Bridge Superintendent Kandis Fritz explained the change on C.R. 451 – Cherokee Road, which will have two speed limits depending on location.
Pictured above: File photo of a dirt road in Wyoming. Photo by Cali O’Hare/Bigfoot 99.
Carbon County Road 291 – Hanna Leo Kortes Road – will be 45 miles per hour on both the paved and unpaved portions of the road.
Carbon County Route 401, which begins south of Rawlins from the end of WYO 71 to the Medicine Bow National Forest boundary, was also in the resolution, but its speed will remain unchanged to Forest Service Road 801.
Carbon County Road 351 – the Seminoe Road – will be set at a new higher speed– 65 miles per hour.
The commissioners passed the resolution with a unanimous vote. Fritz told Bigfoot 99 Tuesday that the new speed limit signs will go up in August. The Road and Bridge Department is finishing up a big mag chloride project this that involved treating over 150 miles of county roads this summer to reduce dust.
