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Article: Rocky: Utah County needs mass transit.

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The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
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April 6, 2006
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Byline: Mark Eddington

Apr. 6--OREM -- Elected officials in Utah County have some catching up to do when it comes to mass transit, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson argues.

"People in Utah County are far, far ahead of [their] elected leaders on this issue," Anderson told Utah Valley State College students this week.

At the Orem school to tout his city's award-winning initiatives to fight global warming, Anderson noted that more than 70 percent of Utah County respondents in a recent Dan Jones survey supported a commuter-rail system.

Commuter rail is coming in 2008 along a 44-mile stretch in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties, where ...

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