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Residents opposing a TRAX line down 600 West
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And how is a train line OFFENSIVE? Offended by a train line? Anyone who finds a train line OFFENSIVE has got bigger issues to deal with.
BTW-we're not "offenended" by the train line. We're offended that the Master Plan is not being followed. We're quite excited to have Trax coming to our neighborhood for residents to use.
If we are going to put money into a viaduct, why not add to the North Temple viaduct and improve that ugly structure? I understand that funds are not available to fix the North Temple viaduct, but at least we could improve it.
If you were coming in to downtown from the airport, would you want to ride down to hub and the transfer to a train to get back up to the shoping at the Gateway and Energy Solutions Arena?
Put the line where it makes sense and help protect a community that has been working very hard to improve their neighborhood.
Anyone who spends any time in the area could see that 400 West is the most logical route of the two.
I make frequent trips from the East Side to the West Side and I feel qualified to say that 400 West is the better of the two routes.
But we all know that UTA could care less what the citizens want -- look at the recent disasterous route changes. UTA will do what UTA wants to do and we'll all have to live with the consequences.
The 4 west alignment has always been the preferred alignment until Gateway/Boyer Co. decided that it wasn't. And now that Boyer doesn't like UTA doesn't like it.
The North Temple viaduct is in need of an upgrade and is scheduled for an upgrade sometime in the next few years. Why build a new viaduct on 6 west and then rebuild the North Temple viaduct a couple years later? Why not just rebuild the North Temple viaduct with a TRAX line on it? It is the most Cost Effective alignment.
If the agreed upon Master Plan designated 400 West as the site of a future Trax line, and everyone in the area knew that, including Boyer when they went ahead with the Gateway development, then why should it be changed just because Boyer wants to?!
What about all the residents and other businesses who made their plans based on the Master Plan!?
If a line is built down 600 West it will be a slap in the face to the residents there who have worked to improve the community there, and it will be one more barrier that divides the East side from the West side - one more barrier that we DON'T need!