Newly constructed Knight Ave. adds parking for Lone Peak HS

(Daily Herald) After a three-month summer vacation, students returned to Lone Peak High School on Aug. 20. By 7:30 a.m. cars were already lined up on 4800 West, waiting to turn into the Lone Peak parking lot. Only a few lucky students realized that during the summer, Highland had constructed a new road and parking lot west of the school.

City Administrator Barry Edwards said that one reason for building the road was to provide parking for Lone Peak students and for the 10-acre sports park (located north of the Lone Peak LDS seminary building).

"It was a joint effort with the City Council and school district," he said. "It gives students a back door to get out."

Lone Peak assistant principal Rex Brimhall said he hoped the road would alleviate some of the traffic congestion, although he questioned why the road allowed students to exit the original school parking lot, but not to enter it.

City engineer Matt Shipp explained that the road was built primarily as a park access road, and that blocking west access into the larger parking lot would keep the road from becoming a big traffic circle.

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