The need for speed (limits)

A speed limit on Crook County’s dirt roads is not a number that can be arbitrarily set.

The county commissioners have encountered requests to regulate driver speeds in recent months and so opted to invite a specialist to walk them through the process.

Austin Woody of the Wyoming Tech Transfer Center, part of the University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Applied Science, was already familiar to the commission for his work in completing a speed study on Barlow Canyon Rd.

Woody provided a detailed description of the process, explaining that the goal of each speed study his department perfo...