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Article: Transit time in Utah County
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2003
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Utah County residents want the chance to pay higher taxes so they
can have commuter rail and other transit alternatives.
Well, of course they do.
That much should have been clear to Utah County commissioners back
in 2000, as it was to leaders in Salt Lake, Weber and Davis counties.
They all voted to allow a ballot measure that year asking voters to
approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase to fund more transit.
Voters in all three counties approved the measure. But Utah County
commissioners decided not to even put the measure on the ballot.
That seemed like a short-sighted move back then. Today, it seems
incredibly naive.
An opinion poll conducted by Dan Jones & Associates for the ...