Comments about ‘Fiery freeway crash rekindles dispute over freeway wall’

They don't have the money to put up some little fence and keep the roads drivable at the same time so what is fair? 18 people get what they want in a fence or 2 million people get what they need in drivable roads? You knew what was there when you moved in. It's like people in New Orleans complaining that their city flooded when it's below sea level.

Life is tough people, deal with it or move.

They should have thought a little bit harder about where they should have built their homes, just like the people who build them on the mountain sides just asking for a wildfire to destroy them. They chose poorly and I have very little sympathy for them.

I have some undeveloped land behind my house, and I'm afraid a fire may start in the dry grass and spread to my yard.

So I can sleep better at night, could the Utah State government please supply some tax money to build a barrier between my house and the dry grass? I kind of like the area, so I don't want to move.

This is not am impoverished neighborhood. Why don't they pool their money to build their own wall?

This is like the millionaires in Draper that are surprised that very wet dirt will slide downhill.

I'm a taxpayer too, and I want my tax dollars going to a project that will benefit thousands or even millions of people.

How about if you people learn the facts before making judgments? Oles Lane and Cobblerock Lane had houses in this area, including what is now immediately adjacent to the freeway, before Eisenhower started the system. The people on the south side of the freeway got a soundwall even though their houses came after the freeway was started, after the route of I- 215 was known, and even after it was built. We've been petitioning since I-215 construction days. Nobody told us there was a program. They just forgot about it. We bought this property in 1952, looking for cheap land. Not everyone in Holladay is rich. Now I am on social security, disabled since 1986, and have high medical bills. I had to get a reverse mortgage to buy my land all over again each year because of the high property taxes, although I fight it every year, which is a big drain on time and energy. 10,000 or more for a soundwall? In your dreams. This is wrong.

Freeways as a matter of fact all roads are paid for by fuel taxes. 50 cents or more pergallon of your gas price on the pump is for road taxes. Our one semi, truck company paid $28,000 in road taxes last year. Save you fuel receipts and just see what the taxes are at the end of the year. You will be shocked. These few have probably aready paid twice over for the cost of the sound barier since they have been asking for it. They should get it. It would keep them safer and those on the road.

"My thing is, I pay taxes like everybody else," she said.
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So do I. Does that mean I can just pick and choose what my taxes pay for? If so, sign me up. Let me know where's the office I apply to in order to have home improvements built on to my property.

Or maybe you could let me know how I pull back my taxes that go to pay for an unjustified (IMHO) war.

Oh wait. I guess we really don't have that privilege. Maybe I'd better run to the media to play for public sympathy.

Sorry folks. If you bought after the freeway went up, you have little room for complaint. If you bought beforehand, odds are you have enough equity in your home to get a home improvement loan. But change happens, and it's not the government's job to pay you for it. Adapt or move. Everyone else has to do the same.

It is a good idea to build a barrier there... use our fuel tax on this instead of construction that's filling up utah.

Don't you all think it is a good idea to keep the accidents closer to the roads? and away from homes. I built a house out in the middle of nowhere and now they are putting a gravel pit by me. I guess that is just the breaks! according to you no matter what is next to your house you have to just take it. Like a prison or a home for pediphiles. Make your own barriers.

So do I. Does that mean I can just pick and choose what my taxes pay for? If so, sign me up. Let me know where's the office I apply to in order to have home improvements built on to my property
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Nice try. The article clearly states that she stopped waiting around for UDOT and paid $10,000 for a wall of her own.
The article is speaking more about the inconsitsency of UDOT's policy. "Adapt or move", sounds to me like they clearly adapted by putting up their own wall.

The more I type a response to your post, the more angry you seem to me..."pay for public sympathy" that just makes you sound absurd.