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Transportation: Road construction facing major cuts
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Huntsman is doing what Leavitt did...cut transportation heavily, over 20%, while helping to divert billions of car-user paid taxes into mass transit.
UTA only carries about 1% of all trips according to studies done by WFRC engineers. Yet, the Governor and valley Mayors have helped get billions of new tax increases for UTA to spend like drunken sailors.
Stop cutting road transportation funds! Instead, stop UTA"s crazy unjustifiable rail projects.
Numeracy seems scarce in the Huntsman Administration. This type of analysis isn't rocket science. It is just plain old well-researched economic analysis with good data to back it up. Check out some good critiques of UTA rails by economist Dr. Michael Ransom at BYU.
While the political establishment and media, continue placing infinite trust in UTA, it has been one of the worst transit agencies in the U.S. for deceiving the public with bad / junk data. Read the January 2008 Audit of UTA by legislative auditors.
UTA is Utah's ENRON!
But, we are on course to give them $20 billion in the MAG and WFRC Long Range Plans. Theoretically their overall share will skyrocket to 2% by 2030.
Stop the waste there before cutting UDOT another cent.
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