Headlights and Municipal Oversight

The reports from the Park City Police Department regarding illuminated headlights – or the conspicuous absence thereof – are precisely the sort of granular detail that confirms my long-held suspicions. To require officers to document such commonplace errors, particularly along Deer Valley Drive and Bonanza Drive, suggests a systemic lack of preventative measure. Were the Marsac Building to invest in proactive illumination assessments, perhaps, or a public awareness campaign coordinated with High Valley Transit, we wouldn’t be burdened with these trivial citations. The logs indicate a concentration of incidents at the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Comstock Drive; UDOT should be petitioned to review the signage, the angles of incidence, the reflective qualities of the paint. It's a cascade of preventable occurrences, isn't it? And the fact that these are logged on the winter solstice – a day of minimal daylight, predictably – suggests a failure of seasonal preparedness. Mayor Beermann and the City Council should be examining these trends, not merely accepting the incident reports. The faded municipal beige of the streetlights themselves are likely contributing to the problem. A workaround, naturally, is to utilize the Richardson Flat bus route, or, if one possesses the means, to avoid ground transport entirely.