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Show Lakeside Review Lakeside Tuesday. June 16, 1992 3 Opinion LETTERS How do you commute to your job? About 78 percent of Davis County workers are commuters, according to a survey done by the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Less than 3 percent of the countys 81,000 workers ride the bus to work and about 14 percent car pool. And in 25 years the number of cars on these same roads will double. The expected congestion, air pollution, and infrastructure damsingle-passeng- er Volunteers made DATC race successful I would like to extend my appreciation to the volunteers who con- STREET TALK group. My son who just graduated is going to ITT next week and hes car pooling with two other kids, basically because we dont want him to spend his money on gas all the time. I think a lot of it has to do with information. I grew up in the country and you didnt hear of car age is mind boggling. pooling. Now that youre in the Often problems that will occur big city you see cars that stop all in the future can be solved more the time that car pool. Bob Gibbons, Clinton easily today, so the Lakeside Re(I view randomly asked several passerdrive) my truck. My wife has her s-by how they and their family own car and shes a single driver commute to work, and what too. I wouldnt mind riding the bus changes would have to take place for them to change those patterns. if it would take me to work, if I We also asked what transportadidnt have to walk a mile after tion programs or practices could they drop you off. I havent found be started now that would have a a convenient car pool. I imagine there is one because I work on the positive impact into the next cenbase. Ive just never really looked tury. I into it. Im sure Id save myself a Sandy Burrow, Kaysville have a husband who drives to few dollars that way, too. Woods Cross to the Kmart and I A better bus system would have two sons who are working help of course. What it will be in and they both drive to work. 20 years from now, I dont know. For my husband to change it If they make cars smaller or more would have to be either someone economical, theyre pushing that who works at his store (to car now. Im sure that will contribute pool) or it would have to be close to better air quality. That would enough for him to walk, because be where to start. Id have a he has done that in the past when walk to the bus stop and we lived closer to the Kmart he then wait for the bus, and theyre manages. If its within a mile, hes not always on time especially in walked. His hours are kind of funthe winter. After they dropped me ny, he can put in 60 hours a week. off, Id still have another It would have to be an assistant or walk. That walk is someone who works the hours he probably a total of a mile or so works in order for him to be able anyway. Not that I dont need the to car pool. exercise, but youve got to have I think more information on that all coordinated because you busing and car pooling would cant be late for work. I Jeff Schofield, Syracuse help, especially for the younger tributed to the RaceSpring Bazaar Human held at Davis Applied Technology Center on Saturday, May 2. Due to their efforts, it turned out to be a great success! Thanks go to: Fred Aguirre, Na Dene Archibald, Gary Baldwin, Barney, Leanne Bell, Charles Burkhalter, Chuck Chambers, Nikki Ciccone, Chris Convery, Dan Czarnicki, Linda Damron, Britnee Day, Wanda Day, Brandt Donnelly, Clark Dowding, Paul Dowding, Blake Enser, Francis Evans, Rich Evans, Jim Fuller, Gaylene Godfrey, Lance Goodman, Jeremy Grover, Laura Lee Horrocks, Kristie Huefner, Cerya Jacques, Jana Jones, Radene Jones, Cindy Lee, Lisa Lee, Ronna Lee, Kathy Maurer, Magdalene Menjivar, Jenny yn . Woody Mamanakis work in Layton and I just drive to work everyday. I guess the accessibility of having a car. If I didnt have a car, Id have to find another way but where I have a car its just to do. I dont know if theres really anything that I can see that would cause me to change. Car pooling I might do. The only thing is, its nice to have your own car. If you need to get up and go, you can. My job is flexible to where I can take my lunch when I want to, I can get up and go with my own car. With a car pool youre tied down to what you can do during the day. I feel the strongest about a light rail system like you see in other cities. Theyve been talking about it here in this state. I foresee that as being the best and most convenient. Buses are nice. too-eas- but Ive never really ridden a bus that much. I just see the light rail system as being the best alternative. Its faster. If you take the bus from here to Salt Lake, you an hour, two hours. itll take lived in Hawaii for a while and their transit system there is fantastic and inexpensive compared to what Ive seen most places, and convenient. Weve got nothing but a stretch of people living in it. Bamberger had it and it was working. Thats what e, Woody Mamanakis, West I usually drive when I Point go to work, but sometimes I car pool, sometimes I dont. It depends on what I have to do be- forehand or my car pool has to do beforehand. I work in Salt Lake County. Its probably fifty-fiftDifferent work hours would probably allow us to get other things done or after easier. I work a day and then we have a day off or we have a range to where we can go in earlier or stay later. The old idea of a light rail and buses would work a heck of a lot better here than it has been. Ive y. 10-ho- ur Murphy, Karen Murphy, Carol Oakeson, Merry Pacelev. Milo Petty, Aubree Pickard, Leon Pulley, Sheila Rasmussen, Mac Reid, Greg Richens, Neal Robison, Robert Rodeffer, Kathy Rudnicki, Paul Rudnicki, Jack Shell, Terri Shafer, Janice Stuart, Theron Thur-goo-d, Garn Tollestrup, Mary Ann 100-mi- le ve need to go back to. Some sort way of moving people to and from with buses on the other end to get them into Salt Lake and some place convenient. Light rail, a bus system, subway, or something. Washington, D.C., has a nice subway there, but Id sure hate to pay for the cost here. If we were more diversified in area, but weve got a lake on one side and the mountains on the other. If we could just get people up and down that corridor, to make it easier to get to where theyre going, Id use the bus. of light rail, high-volu- Tollestrup, Sammie Tollestrup, John Utley, Regina Vail, Brandon Vandersnappen, Lori Walker, Cy Willis, Addie Wimmer, Tracey Young, Center Street Singles Club, Davis County Amateur HAM Radio Club, Jay Greaves health occupations class, staff of Gourmet, DATC, Davis County Employment and Training, Davis County Sheriffs Department, Davis High School, Job Service, Kaysville City Electric Company, Kaysville City Fire Department, Kaysville City Police, Kaysville City Public Works, Kaysville City Recreation, Layton City Public Works, Turning Point, and USU Extension Services. Linda Stevens Davis Human resource counselor Applied Technology Center Pictures of abortion get point across What is abortion? Something has to be done to shock people into the realization of what abortion really is. With all the highly intelligent people in the world today, it would seem that this would be unnecessary. Appar-ently what we dont see can be as trivial. Our imagination dis-miss- ed should tell us what happens to these babies, but obviously some people need more. I think highly graphic pictures of an abortion should be taken. These pictures should be published for all to see. They need to be put in doctors offices, abortion clinics, shown to young people in high school and anywhere necessary to get the point . across that abortion is murder. The public should see the horror of what is happening to these small, innocent babies. The outrage that would be felt would make the word shock an understatement Then and only then would abortions and .talk of fetal tissue banks cease. Maybe we would gain a new respect for life and once again, Gods word would have meaning to all of us. BBG Kloor Layton Youth program brings democracy to life ' t Do your share: By KIM MORRIS Utah Department ot Transportation, Public Attairs One of the most commonly asked questions of the Utah Department of Transportation is: What are you going to do to fix all this congestion on our roads? We can respond to that question with extensive plans for additional Janes to be added to the Interstate . system, improvements being .'planned for roads throughout the area and ideas about a new West 'Davis highway" to be built some 'day in the distant future. I The plans that UDOT and local agencies have are great When constructcd they will only add to what ; is already a very good transporta- - get in habit of car pooling . element which will help solve the GUEST COLUMNIST ?rob!cm. Perhaps the most iant tool we have to employ to retion system. But all the roads we duce the congestion and problems hope to build or improve over the ,that it causes is the attitudes and habits of those of us who use the next 20 years will not, by themselves, solve the growing problem New or improved roads are only a small part of the solution. Better mass-trans- it facilities are another highway. The next time you are trapped in freeway traffic, which for some of us is a daily occurence, take a look at the people in the cars around you. What you will probably see is that eight out of 10 cars have only one person in them. Currently, Utah averages 1.14 persons per automobile. What this means is we waste a lot of space on the highway while we are in this one-cmode of travel. A few years ago when our high- - others of us could enjoy it. As we each went out past the gate, we were greeted by pretty, friendly girls, welcoming us to the island and asking us to have a nice day. in law enforcement to continue making life nicer for us. Many of them got married and now have families of their own. After all these years, two of the of traffic congestion along the satch ways had plenty of excess capability this wasnt a problem. Then there impor-- . Wa- Front By the year 2020, the states 1.7 million people will have grown to over 2.7 million. Utah is simply growing too fast to be able to build a continued supply of new highways as the increasing traffic demands. one-perso- n, ar increasing the number of people ho are in any one car. Lets take the concept of car pooling seriously, promote it and participate in it. Car pooling is a simplistic approach, it is not the solution to all our highway congestion problems. It is, however, part of the solution and perhaps even a better way to use our transportation resources. And ultimately, wise use of this fiw was space on the roads for evej7-on- e. Today, as we approach a point when it just wont be possible to put many more cars on the system without causing overload, we have to begin to look for a different way to approach life on the highway. Traffic congestion is caused by cars, thats a simple fact. So lets begin to find ways to reduce the number of cars on the road. Perhaps the time has come for those of us who live and work along the Wasatch Front to actively get involved in solving the congestion problem, in the only way we as individuals can. Lets reduce cars on the road by system. The Lakeside Review asked public information officer Kim Morris of the Utah Department of Transportation to respond to the growing problem of traffic congestion on state highways. they went over, they were mad that they weren't invited. No! Antelope Island is not a private club. At this moment it is an island uninhabited, without water, restrooms, and places to camp. We know what the elements have done to the causeway, and you can imagine what it is has done to the other things out there. If it was open now for us to alt go over, it would be such a dump that no one would ever want to go over when it was finished. Or as taxpayers we would complain of all the money spent to clean it up. Patience is a virtue. Lets all be patient just a little longer and soon it will be a nice place to go once again. Lets not be angry because they had a reunion. We all like reunions and most of us enjoy them every so oflen....This was their first. I wasn't invited either, but I'm not crying. Brenda Tdvatson Kaysville nite resource might be the best way to maintain a viable transportation LETTERS i Dont cry over island being used for party To ALL who ARE concerned: I cant believe all the tears being shed over a simple party. Is. Ten years ago when Antelope land was a fun escape from the ordinary, thousands of us went over to the island. There were many who worked on the island, keeping it nice, the campgrounds clean and inviting, and the rowdy quiet, so They were a family. Did we ever stop to think of those dedicated people who worked so hard, put up with the brine flics, the hostile, drunks and liltcrbugs, to make it nice for us? After the island was shut down, most of these people went on to other things. Some of them stayed girls from the gate thought it would be nice to have a reunion and get the old gang together with their families. What better place to have it than the island. And as far as I know, the causeway, though unfinished, is the only access to the island. Just because a few people happened to be at the gate when t Democracy is not a spectator for it to survive and floursport ish, we all must become involved. This is the message I heard from 545 high school students from 42 Utah high schools who recently participated in the Gose Up Foundation government studies program in Washington, D.G For a full week the students had the opportunity to develop a better understanding of our democratic process in the nation's capital. By observing Congressional proceedings, questioning journalists and meeting with government experts, the abstracts of history and the process of governing were transformed into concrete experiences. In addition, students were able to share their views with their peers from other areas of the country. Participants returned home with a deeper awareness of their responsibilities as citizens and the realiza- tion that a single individual can make a difference. Their enthusiasm for involvement in the democratic process is to be admired. The Close Up experience was made possible through the strong support of parents, teachers and schools. Also, various companies and organizations helped make Close Up fellowships available to students in financial need. These sponsors include: Burger King Cor- poration and the Union Pacific Foundation. On behalf of all of us at Close Up. t would like to thank all who made the experience possible. Heidi Lynch Outreach coordinator Close L'p Foundation Alexandria, Va. |