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Lehi, UDOT compromise on corridor
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It makes me feel ashamed to think that people like you are speeding through my town, probably littering, honking at and tailgating old men on tractors since they're keeping you from speeding through town. Get real and become a member of the North County community. We're all here, in this together. Get over yourself!
Exurban growth is going to grind to a halt as we once again move closer to our jobs. Those that remain in the exurbs will improvise carpools and use whatever public transit is available no matter how inconvenient. The existing roads will once again seem spacious to those who can still afford to use them and further capacity expansion will be abandoned as pointless.
This "scaling back" of Mountain View Corridor is the first of many abandoned road plans to come.
I'd be willing to bet (if it were legal in Utah), that before phase 1 is complete, traffic demand will require UDOT to construct phase 3, totally skipping phase 2.
BTW - What does all this "phasing" do to the ultimate cost of the project?
There will be no phase 2. There may not even be a phase 1, for the reasons I described above.
-lowonoil
Whether it is hybrids, electric, hydrogen, or something not even dreamed up yet, there is no future without cars in America, because in a free market there will always be incentive for innovation to produce the products that people want to buy. Gasoline powered or not, the cars will come.
In an energy depleted future when we have to make hard choices of where to spend our limited amounts of energy, which of the above shall we give up in order for everyone to keep driving?
Second, I'm happy to see Lehi and UDOT finding some common ground. I was getting the feeling that UDOT had its plan and was just going through the motions to get it done. I think this is great, and I think that it will give us a quicker solution to getting out west. Then we can phase things in when needed.
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