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U-Talk: What is the biggest need in Utah County?

By Staff | Jul 18, 2022

Brigham Tomco, Special to the Daily Herald

Kelsey Wall-Ramirez

“Earlier this week a kid from high school that I went to school with, he actually got hit by a car on his bike on highway 40. So just on my mind? Infrastructure with the bike lanes and stuff like that. They’ve been doing a lot in Provo, but I think they could implement it across the valley a little more and make it more of a common thing, especially since we are in a college town and there is a need for bicycling.” — Kelsey Wall-Ramirez, Springville

“I think we are doing good. I don’t know. We got a dry landscape. We should use less grass I think. But that’s an extra. We don’t have any big need.” — Eduardo Martinez, Provo

“Proper city planning. I am a city planner, so maybe this is biased, but I feel like different housing types have different road types. It’s all an ecosystem. Human habitations have an ecosystem just like animal habitations. And we keep building the wrong thing in the wrong place. In my opinion, I think we need good city planning that puts the right housing type with the right intensity within the city.” — Brian Henrie, Provo

“More roller coasters. If we had a close by amusement park so I didn’t have to drive all the way to Lagoon that would be dope. I think it really just brings out the joy in the younglings. There’s nothing like the joy in an amusement park.” — Brennan Chambers, Spanish Fork

“More parking, because there’s so many apartments being built without parking being provided and it’s a real problem. The roads are busier. People are parked on the side of the road. And there’s lots of congestion. Too many apartments going up.” — Karen Woolston, Provo

Brigham Tomco, Special to the Daily Herald

Eduardo Martinez

Photos and interviews by Brigham Tomco, Special to the Daily Herald.


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Brian Henrie

Brennan Chambers

Karen Woolston

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