UTA will get $90 million in stimulus funds for Mid-Jordan line

The Utah Transit Authority will receive $90.1 million in federal stimulus money to build the Mid-Jordan line of light rail.

The Mid-Jordan line will run along the existing Bingham Branch Railroad corridor in a southwesterly direction between the Daybreak planned community and the Fashion Place station (6400 South) of the current Salt Lake City-Sandy TRAX line.

UTA is having a press conference Friday morning to discuss the Mid-Jordan line, which is part of UTA's FrontLines 2015 project, in which the transit authority is opening 70 miles of rail by 2015.

According to a statement from Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, the money is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, funneled through the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Public transit projects in neighboring states that will receive money include $40 million for the West Corridor Light Rail Transit project in Denver and $36 million for light rail between the Central Phoenix and East Valley communities in Arizona.

— Laura Hancock