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Article: Utah County on track to put commuter-rail tax on ballot
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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PROVO -- Utah County elected officials are crossing their fingers
to prove they aren't dragging their feet on transit.
The Utah County Commission is expected to vote as soon as today to
put a quarter-cent sales tax increase on the ballot in November to
fund a 22 1/2-mile commuter rail line from the Salt Lake County
border to Provo.
If it passes a public vote, the tax increase would generate $765
million by 2030, according to projections by the Mountainland
Association of Governments.
MAG, which coordinates transportation planning in Utah County, has
recommended to commissioners that commuter rail be the top priority
for those funds in order to give commuters a north-south alternative
to ...