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The Legacy continues? Corridor to extend parkway may run through homes

If legacy isn't extended, it will produce gridlock and economic trouble in the future. this needs to get done, and hopefully not by using toll fees.

Do you want a state/community that has toll roads everywhere you go?

it will produce gridlock and economic trouble ?

Funny I always thought it was the people driving the roads that caused gridlock and economic trouble .

But your never know what someone can blame it on.

Enough is enough. When they want a corridor to run thru homes they need to think of a different route. It's hard enough for people to find a house so if they already have one let them keep it! And also NO TOLLS!!!! Things in this state cost enough!!!

Isn't it amazing how people willing give up their homes, and pay extra taxes for the all-mighty freeways, but if you ask them to make a few sacrifices to accommodate open space, parks, or wilderness areas, they start foaming at the mouth and screaming about "radical environmentalists". The conservative propaganda machine has trained them well.

The Legacy North will never be built. The Mountain View Corridor, other than perhaps a dozen or so miles subsidized by desperate developers, will never be built.
We are at the begining of a decades long decline in our use of the automobile. The car for everybody model of transportation can only work with an endless supply of cheap energy. Cheap energy is coming to an end.
We will still have energy, but it will be costly energy that is obtained at great difficulty and used sparingly. This means that our astonishingly inefficient habit of scattering people at low density over enormous areas and requiring them to depend on cars to move around has to end. We will have no choice but to make other arrangements. Soon our existing road system will seem quite spacious to the fraction of us who can still afford to drive it and further expansion will be obviously pointless.

Don't let Rocky know! It will take until 2024 to get it done if you do...

Thank goodness we also have the liberal media which which does well at offsetting the conservative propaganda machine. The two fight against each other and nothing ever gets done.

To be honest I was skeptical about Legacy myself but now my commute home is AWESOME! The article was clear that they aren't 100% on exactly where the freeway will run. They need to take out a map and plan it out and make sure they involve all parties and not jump through any legal loop holes.

A better solution is to invent environmental friendly flying cars. No more cause for freeways, build more parks.

People First
Bikes Second
Transit Third
Roads Last

If we want a sustainable community we can't just keep laying down roads without the thought of mass transit. We need Mass Transit from Logan to St. George. Does anyone really want more roads and less options? Look at our sky, it is dirty pollution brown. Our air quality is bad, and it is just going to get a whole lot worse if we fail to think about the long term future in our planning. Please UDOT, listen to the people who are wanting a sustainable community.

It will never happen. The foresight to plan for such a throughway is far, far away in the rearview mirror of civic policy. Get used to the bottleneck, bought asnd paid for by Jon Huntsman, Ross Anderson and the Sierra Club. The Legacy Parkway, as it is now built is Utah's own "road to nowhere" physically and metaphorically. But, it is a "pretty little road."

I have to say that I would have to agree with lowonoil. To run a car is very expensive, and to insure it also is costing alot. This state would be wasting alot of money if they ever consider going thru with these corridors. More people are using bikes or public transportation to get around, and even walking more. So there's no sense to building all these corridors to ease the traffic, cause soon it will take care of itself.

This would have finished years ago if it wasn't for the "radical environmentalists" holding it up in court. At the time there wasn't as many houses that would have been effected.
They should have the people that held this up in court pay the extra $'s it's going to take to finish this freeway and bring it up north.

I would like to borrow IOWONOIL's chrystal ball or do I just call you prophet IOWONOIL. I drove the Legacy for the first time this morning. It was so nice! It won't be long and we will wonder how we ever did without it. Why should the north be restricted to dangerous over crowded roads. What happens when I15 shuts down because of an accident. All the traffic routes through our cities. It is ridiculous for a metropolitan area of this size to have only 1 major freeway. We need an alternative route as soon as possible.

until it is your home that is impacted. Then once all the legal hassles start, it won't be much fun.

What a terrible article. They needed a human side to the story, so they tried to portray this as some travesty that will cause Grandma to lose her home, but the problem is they couldn't find any homeowners who were really upset about it. The worst complaint they could find was one guy saying he hoped the state would give him a good price for his home. And yet they still went ahead and wrote the article from the same point of view. That's a terrible writer who twists the truth to fit the story they want it to be, rather than reporting the truth in an honest, unbiased manner.

It's not rocket science, Amazing. No cheap gas = no 20,000 miles a year in a car for people of average means. Perhaps if the earth was a crystal ball we could look into it and see how little easy to get oil there still is compared to how much there was a while ago. The relentless decline in US oil discoveries since the 1930's and in world discoveries since the 1960's gives us a pretty good clue.
I don't have a crystal ball, but you might want to lurk for a while at theoildrum dot com to see what the oilworkers are saying about what's really going on.

I don't like Rush Limbah probably as much as you don't, yet I love legacy highway.

I commute on I-15 where it runs, and it has improved my quality of life by leaps and bounds.

I didn't need rush or anyone else to tell me to like it, I do have my own mind and I know that legacy works for me.

"A better solution is to invent environmental friendly flying cars."

When, oh when will those scientists get off thier lazy butts and invent more ways for us to remain on ours?

I work in SLC, and live in Layton.
Legacy Highway just made me life SO much better. My usual hour commute home is now a half hour. All politics aside, that's all I need to hear. Whoever voted for it and made it happen, there's my politician.
More family time is what I want, and Legacy just gave it to me.
Thank you UDOT and thank you Legacy.

They way that the Wasatch Front is set up looking east to west it mountains, city, i-15, city, lakes mountains. there is only one i-15. now with the Legacy parkway and soon to come mountainview corridor road, we will have two freeways going north. There's not a lot of space with the population growth, but with that growth, we need more roads. I think that the North Legacy Parkway is a great idea. It will relieve congestion that will soon occur in Weber/Davis counties with the growth rate. I'm all for it!

"Corridor to extend parkway may run through homes"

Kinda tough, having to wait for a break in the traffic to get to the bathroom!