From Deseret News archives:
UDOT pointing to route preferred for $2 billion road
Utah County location to be decided this summer
It's a location with fewer environmental impacts than two other alternatives being studied by UDOT. One alternative is a southern extension of the freeway along Utah Lake, to Lindon. The other would follow the same route as the first to the lake, but would have three arterial roads to take traffic off the highway.
During a presentation Friday to the state Transportation Commission, Mountain View project manager Teri Newell outlined four criteria that UDOT officials will review as they decide where they'd like to build the highway. They will consider the impact on houses, wetlands and traffic, as well as the cost.
"This is the first time we've had all the facts out on the table," Newell said. "What this helps us do is move toward a preferred alternative."
If the road is built at 2100 North, fewer homes and wetlands would be destroyed, and the cost would be less than other routes. The road would also carry about as many cars as UDOT's other two alternatives, according to Newell.
After Lehi city officials and residents came out in force to protest the southern connection, UDOT simplified its plans to include a freeway option at 2100 North with no southern alignment.
Sierra Club Southwest Regional Representative Marc Heileson, who previously had criticized UDOT for the impact a southern alignment would have on wetlands, said he thinks that 2100 North would be a better alternative than a southern freeway.
"A massive freeway that bisects a community, with zero transit, is not compatible with what the people want to happen with growth," Heileson said.
Saratoga Springs recently passed a resolution in favor of the northern connection. The resolution says that the city will "vigorously and strenuously support and encourage the 2100 North alternative to be the preferred and final configuration for the Mountain View Corridor."
But not everyone in Utah County is ready to embrace the 2100 North route.
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