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Transit's a priority — still

Salt Lake County is one of the smaller counties in Utah but we almost have 1 million residents. That means we have a population mass and population density that makes public transportation viable here in ways it just isn't anywhere else. Lawmakers from some other parts of the state are right to be skeptical about the value of public transportation because where they live it wouldn't work. In Salt Lake County it is our best option.

The UTA brass deserve a lot of credit, doing their prep work in a timely fashion. We are getting these rail facilities just in time, as world oil supplies get increasingly scarce and enthenol emerges as a bust.

Light Rail is moving full speed ahead, The Destruction of the Bus System has assumed proportions. There have been many components to this
process of destruction.

Bus Fare Increases
Service Cuts
Many others components. UTA does care about the
Bus System.

The reason the state legislators are digging their heels in is because the kickbacks just aren't as good when asphault and orange cones aren't part of the deal.

Oh, come on. At it's BEST - according to the most optimistic estimates - transit will at most serve five percent of commuters. The real number is more like two. Next time you are stuck on I-15 at rush hour, ask yourself how much difference taking two out of every hundred cars off the road would help. And why should SL County - with only two stops - pay for commuter rail? Trax has been reasonably successful, and will be a help. But look at the population growth at the south and west of the valley, all the businesses and distribution centers on the northwest end, and ask yourself why SL county taxpayers should put their money there instead of in better traffic flow and the Mountain View Corridor.

A million new residents with no freeway? Good luck. Everyone knows east/west traffic is the REAL problem in the county, and commuter rail won't do a thing. Everyone paying this extra county tax to pay for Utah/Davis/Weber counties is a sucker.

UTA did its job all right - to sell a bill of goods.

"Commutersense" doesn't understand the expansibility of the rail mode. For example, Trax can be made to handle much more traffic if necessary. This may be occasioned by problems with oil supplies. Does he/she really think we can go on building roads, and burning gas as if oil supplies were infinitely available?