From Deseret News archives:
Foes of Mountain View toll road form group
West-side mayors and leaders plan to lobby
The group, while still informal, plans to raise funds and lobby the Legislature this January to find a way to fund the proposed highway without toll revenue. The group also wants more funding options for transportation in general.
Those involved in the group include Taylorsville Mayor Russ Wall and Chamber West, which represents more than 500 businesses in Taylorsville, Kearns and West Valley City. The cities of South Jordan and Herriman have also attended meetings.
Mountain View is proposed to run through western Salt Lake County into northwest Utah County. Engineers with the Utah Department of Transportation are in the middle of an environmental study of the road. No funding exists to build it, according to UDOT.
Those involved with the toll-road group said they worry about the effects of a toll road on nearby businesses and homes. Wall said Monday that he believes no one would use Mountain View if it were built as a toll road. Instead, people would use side roads through his city to get around.
"We are getting organized because we are concerned about the Mountain View Corridor becoming a toll road," he said. "There might be advantages to pooling our resources together, just to make sure that we secure it as a freeway not as a toll road."
Controversy over Mountain View started earlier this year when UDOT began studying whether the highway would work as a toll road. The department released a "tolling analysis" in September that showed tolls could pay for about two-thirds of the cost of building the highway.
UDOT officials plan to hold a meeting Thursday for the state Transportation Commission to get input from lawmakers, city officials and the trucking association about the analysis. An open house for public comment will follow that.
The seven-member commission is expected to decide sometime next year whether to impose tolls on Mountain View. In December, the group will hear a recommendation from UDOT about where the road's alignment in Salt Lake County should be.
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