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Residents in Mountain View Corridor path brace for change

My Heart goes for you Jewel Hodson You living there for 30 years and helping build a community only to see the government say to you "We have bussiness that need that land to promote growth"
I have to ask ,What good is growth?

Lets sue; maybe that will buy another 5 years!

The highway is badly needed, just imagine how the people felt when I-15 was built?

Lets sue seems to be the only way we can get anything acomplished anymore, no wonder we are loosing our abilility to compete in todays world.

The Mountain View Corridor project, as well as the Legacy North project, will be abandoned before the first shovel full of dirt is moved. We are about to wake up to a new energy scarcity reality that will force us to quickly make new arrangements for getting around. It will lead to far less traffic on existing roads, and the support for traffic capacity expansion will evaporate.

"We should take note that our major oil companies, including Chevron and ExxonMobil, are beginning to state publicly that we may be reaching peak oil." - Orrin Hatch

�A significant number of petroleum geologists have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production." - Bill Clinton

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." _Phillip K. Dick

I hope the highway goes in soon and the sierra club goes and spends the money somewhere else. Air will be better around here if cars aren't stopped at traffic lights or congestion.

Contact the Sierra Club just to postpone construction? How much is that litigation going to cost taxpayers so you can postpone the inevitable a few years? I feel for you and I understand how you must feel knowing you will have to sell your home and move but this project is being done for the GREATER GOOD. There are 384 homes that will have to be demolished to make way for the highway but how many hundreds of times more households will benefit enormously from having a west side freeway? I live on the west side and I see it every day. All the east-west corridors are jammed every morning and evening because people have to travel so far east just to get to a freeway. And Bangerter only makes matters worse because the lights at those intersections are so long. What a mistake that was to not make Bangerter a highway. They could have ripped up the intersections and put in overpasses and then people would not have to pack into 1 and 2 lane roads to get to I-215 or I-15. I still wonder if it could be done for the same cost of the Mountain View proposal.

The Salt Lake Valley is already overcrowded. Growth has sacrificed a pleasant way of living. I wish I could move somewhere else where the congestion and pace of life is more like the Salt Lake Valley was 40 years ago.

Let's get started on this new highway!
The sooner, the better, in every way!

I live on the west side of the valley and agree that we need something too facilitate the traffic coming from this side. IF I didn't live on the west side of the valley it would make the EAST side MUCH more crowded. This is a huge valley. There is vast areas of open space on the west side. I see it every time I have to take the crazy Bachus HWY to get from Herriman to other points on the west side. The alternative is to go WAY east to Bangerter HWY and then WAY back west to my destination. The Mountain View Corridor just makes sense.

Yeah, that is just great. Hudson's comment to stall the project for 5 more years is ridiculous. Anybody that lives on the west side has been demanding something be done with the transportation. I have lived out there for the past 20 years and I know most people have been seeking for solutions for the past 10. Stalling a desperately needed freeway only compounds the problem and is not in the best interest of those people whom it would serve. I certainly hope that Hudson backs down and allow the people who actually live on the west side to determine what will effect them and their future.

I correct myself, Hodson, not Hudson, does live on the west side. My point still stands. The overwhelming majority of west side residents are in favor of this corridor and should be. If we simply leave everything the way it is, the results will continue to be the same and get worse. Change is needed, and yes it will affect some people. Change always does.

The proposed corridor travels too close to 3 elementary schools and one high school. If transportation is more important than your children's ability to develop healthy lungs then you all get what's coming to you. When people insist on having a huge yard at under $200,000 the rest of the Wasatch front picks up the tab in bad air and more roads. Get a clue, move closer to where you work or ride tracks.

Hodson is so unbelievably selfish it makes me sick. I felt bad for Hodson at first, reading about the relocation, but then to learn about the selfish desire to partner with Sierra club to postpone the freeway at the cost of all the taxpayers!!!! Just so Hodson can enjoy a few more years in the current home? Are you kidding me? Look how many families have less time with their parents because of the commuting time necessary to get back to I-15 and crawl along for hours. And please don't tell me it is a choice for people to live out west, there is no other housing in Salt Lake.

This freeway should have been in yesterday. Anyone who stands in its way needs to understand that it is inevitable, don't waste your money and certainly the tax payers money trying to fight it.

The Hudson's attitude iS a typical "not in my backyard" response that is selfish and backward looking.

FACT: There is a traffic problem now
FACT: It will get worse in the future.

If not a freeway, then what? If not now, when? If not in your backyard, then whose backyard should we pick?

This freeway will be litigated for years to come due to the route that UDOT chose. A new Trax spur serving Midvale and West Jordan was announced today. Though it might not come to the door step of your McMansion, I bet you can manage to ride your bike to the nearest stop. Look outside today, that's what we have to look forward to if we continue building more freeways. If you really want to live in LA, then move there.

How can the traffic problem get worse in the future if there will be no additional fuel? There really is no serious viable alternative to refined petroleum to fuel mass automobility. As the fuel supply declines, so will the automobile age. Think about losing your automobility and how you will cope with it.

Need Solutions Soon, How about your back yard!
Some of the people that you want to throw out, have most likely lived in their homes for more years than you have been alive. If you think that it is so easy to move, and start over again, then why don't you do it by moving close to your job. Trax through the river bottoms is a better solution than uprooting people, and/or destroying their property values, and life style.

There is a serious alternative ... E100 from Brazil. They have a surplus, and it comes out about $1/gallon. However our oil-man President is supporting tariffs under the guise that it "helps farmers" not to import E100.

I tried to run E85 (85% Ethanol, 15% Gasoline) and I was shocked to see the price is the same as regular gasoline. It makes sense once I learned about the tariff.

Once peak oil hits, we'll simply import the fresh supply of sugarcane-based ethanol, which will tie us over until battery storage technology catches up to where a automakers can build an electric car that's practical.

In the past automakers didn't support alternative fuel, but you can bet under peak oil they will support it.

I get so sick of people threatening to sue over highways. I don't know what the proposed route is and I don't really care. However, when you have a state that is growing rapidly, to stick your head in the sand and say, "Not in my backyard," is ludicrous. Wake up folks. You can't stop growth.

Can you imagine if the early leaders in this states' history said, "No way we're constructing wide roads. Not in my backyard." I respect the community leaders that had the vision to plan for the future growth. I am also thankful for current community leaders that are proactive and realize that trying to stop growth is like trying to plug holes in a badly leaking dam. The best thing to do is to manage the growth. Suing is not the answer!!!

We are sick of people who are un-informed jumping on the band wagon! People who do not know what the
issues are, much less where the proposed route is should pull their heads out, and we don't mean the sand! The early leaders in this state had less people,less vehicles, and more land when they began to develop this valley-my guess would be that no one wants it in their backyard, but it's not in yours,it's in mine! I love where I live, we choose it because it is a little slice of country in the city. We have been here over 20 years, and we are a
not looking forward to starting from scratch at our age. This is an 8 lane freeway that they are putting through the middle of our community-it will
destroy our baseball diamonds,our park,it will take away our baseball and soccer fields at our High School,and fill the air with cancer causing particulates directly next to 3 schools. How many of you would want in in your backyard? Bytheway, none of the "Community Leaders" live on the proposed route-now there's a big surprise!

There is a need to solve the congestion. Most of it comes from the unusual amount of rigs (18 wheelers) passing through Utah. However a 23 BILLION dollar project that has no funding is not a solution. The cost of the proposal exceeds the benefits.

This is not just a matter of solve the problem or not solve the problem. Its a matter of how they are planning to solve the problem. The proposed solution UDOT has given is not acceptable.

21 SLC public schools will be within a half mile of of a 8 lane highway.

Who's will fronting the money? Utahns Gas tax in Utah would raise from $.24 to $.50 and $.75 in 2030. You would have to pay an additional $305 just to register your car.
If it's tolled. Why does the East side get free public highways and the West have to pay for theirs? Are these acceptable solutions. I think not.

Make our local county leaders step up and come up with a better solution. But that can't happen until they realize how poor this proposal is. We have to first stop this one so that another one can be made.