Show Use Salt Lake Tribune Two-- 4 United Way Goal $45 Million Rush-hou- r traffic to and from downtown Salt Lake City is and slowing down But is it worth spending $15 billion during the next 20 years to assure congestion isn’t any worse in the year 2010? By the turn of the century the rush-hou- r commute to Sandy that averages minutes will take 5 notes Mick Crandall of the Wasatch Front Regional Council As featured speaker at the Salt Lake County Council of Governments' annual meeting he told county commissioners and valley mayors the agency's two-yetransportation study has reached the environmental impact stage That work should be finished next spring and government r can begin making decisions by 45 stop-and-g- o Million 4 Million i 3 5 Million le 3 Million 35-4- 0 50-5- 25 Million 2 Million 5 Million 1 Million 1 $500 000 0 mid-yea- I Today’s Total "Nothing is more important for the health and economy of this valley (than solving the traffic problem" declared Jim Davis mayor of South Salt Lake With roughly 600000 cars and trucks registered in the valley plus an array of recreational vehicles and traffic just passing through the program director said that while doubling the number of freeway lanes tomorrow would speed traffic flows there would still be lines waiting for admission to the expressway Regional council projections indicate that by 2010 the valley’s population will have jumped 400000 to al- $3463342 of goal 77 United Wby 11 million most So studies recommend adding lanes to the freeway adding and improving interchanges expanding bus service and building a light-rai- l system between downtown Salt Lake City and Draper Bills had been figured near $600 million But that didn’t include upkeep of the existing system “The freeway system’s about 20 years old” Mr Crandall told officials gathered at the county government center "It will need major rehabilitation over the next 20 years “In the end that’s probably the biggest chunk of the cost— $500 million at least We’ll spend as much just to keep the freeway from falling down as we spend on expanding capacity over the next 15 years ” Estimates Mr Crandall said range from $193 million for engineering and a few minor repairs to the existing system to $348 million to improve some interchanges and add a lane in each direction to $437 million for addition of two lanes and improvements at all interchanges to $507 million for addition of two general purpose lanes and two lanes 0 Add to that million that would be spent on the bus system under any circumstances or $90 million to double it $150 million to build a light-rasystem or $225 million if it’s fed by an east-webus system And expanded bus services could double Utah Transit Authority salary bills at $40 million "If there’s one small bright spot it’s that we might as well do it all at once” the director predicted Where would money come from? Mr Crandall said there are some fed- - cars or something era! programs But beneficiaries would pay much of the cost There’d be gasoline taxes and maybe special taxes on property around interchanges and other areas where construction increases values Sales taxes that subsidize UTA also could be hiked cent to the sales tax that subsidizes quarter-cen- t the bus service should finance transit needs including the light rail” Mr Crandall predicted Would local government support adding two lanes in the median? How about lanes on the outside from say “Adding 9000-270- one-eigh- th South 0 of a driver-onl- tenth as much as BART sit- y uation “Get the occupancy rate up to three and we’d move 6000 people (an hour instead of 2400)’’ Should those lanes be reversible with traffic flowing north in the mornings and south in the evenings? "More freeway lanes should mean o traffic” Mr Cranless dall stresses "And that could mean cleaner air" Mr Crandall takes issue with fringe groups contending massive amounts of money should be invested only in mass transit or highway construction He disputes contentions that highway construction encourages auto traffic so money should be spent only on mass-transor that Utah's love affair with automobile make mass-transimpractical stop-and-g- it it He reminded officials the valley is community with a population of 700000 and they shouldn't expect a light-rasystem to copy BART the Bay Area Rapid Transit that serves San Francisco Oakland a mid-size- "People have to go to work” he said defending highway construction "They want to go shopping So they go" Still the transportation planner doubts if more than one of every 10 drivers relishes a bumper-to-bumpcommute d il ! Should buses vans and cars with three or more passengers get special lanes? 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