This thread discusses the Content article: UDOT puts Lehi freeway on hold

Stupid, shortsighted, and typical of those who still think Lehi will always be about alfalfa and sugar beets.
We should be pouring concrete on a freeway instead of quibbiling about what block to put a freeway on. By the time this "expressway" is built, another 50-75,000 residents will be living in SS and EM and the west side of Lehi. All it will do is get us back to where we are today, if we are lucky. We need to solve this problem, not keep putting it off.
I hope this incompetence is remembered by Lehi voters come next election.

Of course Lehi doesn't want a new expressway. It will take too much traffic off Main Street and the backroads. They need all that revenue they get from the speed traps they set up on streets with speed limits 10-15 MPH lower than they need to be.

I have noticed a word-of-mouth "movement" among some SS & EM residents to boycott businesses in Lehi until the city stops stonewalling UDOT and starts giving a darn about their traffic problems and how they impact the neighboring communities. Nothing formal, just when you buy stuff, go a little further to AF instead.

buzzard wrote:
This thread discusses the Content article: UDOT puts Lehi freeway on hold

Stupid, shortsighted, and typical of those who still think Lehi will always be about alfalfa and sugar beets.
We should be pouring concrete on a freeway instead of quibbiling about what block to put a freeway on. By the time this "expressway" is built, another 50-75,000 residents will be living in SS and EM and the west side of Lehi. All it will do is get us back to where we are today, if we are lucky. We need to solve this problem, not keep putting it off.
I hope this incompetence is remembered by Lehi voters come next election.

Building more roads does not solve transportation problems. Look at densely congested cities...more freeways don't help them. I would rather support a better mass transportation system.

Maybe EM and SS should have planned better before developing so heavily?

Maybe Lehi doesn't want to pay the bill?

Lehi had a plan in the works long before the corridor switched to 2100 N. Thank Dave Klock and his Sierra Club buddies who blocked the orignial route through Lehi on 1800 S, a route that would serve the area better in the long run by relieving I15 traffic for a longer distance.

More on Dave Klock http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660202796,00.html

My Favorite Parts...
Klock is the owner of a new development near Utah Lake called Spring Creek. Like other new construction developments in the area, Klock's development is at risk of being affected by Mountain View Corridor if it runs too close to Utah Lake.

Independently of COST, Klock has also hired his own attorney to represent Spring Creek against the Mountain View Corridor, but Klock says he's just being cautious.

"We're not suing anybody, but we're preparing ourselves for a fight to protect the interests in that area," Klock said. "This is not about legal battles, this is about finding good solutions

dailyreader wrote:
Maybe EM and SS should have planned better before developing so heavily?

BINGO!

We have a winner!

And a bunch of losers.

buzzard wrote:
This thread discusses the Content article: UDOT puts Lehi freeway on hold

Stupid, shortsighted, and typical of those who still think Lehi will always be about alfalfa and sugar beets.
We should be pouring concrete on a freeway instead of quibbiling about what block to put a freeway on. By the time this "expressway" is built, another 50-75,000 residents will be living in SS and EM and the west side of Lehi. All it will do is get us back to where we are today, if we are lucky. We need to solve this problem, not keep putting it off.
I hope this incompetence is remembered by Lehi voters come next election.

Buzzard = Bird Brain
You knew SS and EM were inconvenient places to live when you bought a house there.