A Senate committee threw up a roadblock Thursday to a bill that would have allowed motorists to run red lights — if they first stopped for 90 seconds, determined the light is not cycling properly and proceeded when the coast is clear.
HB151 was strongly opposed by law enforcement, prosecutors, cities and the Utah Department of Transportation. They viewed it as hazardous, and a solution to a problem they say doesn’t exist.
But the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, said “it is a simple common-sense solution” that provides a method for someone who is interminably stuck at a red light” to legally proceed through it.