FrontRunner South construction may be delayed two to four weeks because of residents concerned about traffic in the area of the commuter rail's proposed station at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi.

The Lehi City Planning Commission tabled the station's site plan last week until Dec. 4 so residents near Thanksgiving Point could meet with FrontRunner representatives and work out an equitable solution to their concerns.

Those residents who attended the meeting spoke out against the station's access point onto their adjoining road, Garden Drive. UTA FrontRunner representatives are meeting Wednesday afternoon with residents from the three neighboring subdivisions at a homeowners association clubhouse to resolve pedestrian and traffic issues.

"Our concerns are really with the road," resident Jenica Barber said. "We really do like UTA. We just want to address our concerns."

John Cluff, UTA FrontRunner project manager, called the situation a Catch-22 with pedestrian safety at stake. Area residents say they see traffic safety as an additional problem with the increased congestion FrontRunner is expected to bring, and they would also like to see that resolved.

Residents additionally do not want to have a tunnel open to pedestrians allowing access from the Thanksgiving Point complex on the east to their homes on the west side past FrontRunner and railroad tracks.

"We want it there to provide safety for the pedestrians," said Cluff, adding that cameras were planned for the corridor which had been engineered for safety to protect those passing under the tracks to and from the station.

The design for the 10-acre station site at Thanksgiving Point has a bus depot, two areas for parking with 704 stalls and a platform canopy 900 feet long and 20 feet wide at the station as well as the underground pedestrian corridor, Cluff said.

Engineers took nearly a year to design the plan. Contractors are grading at the site and are "ready to move" on the project now, according to FrontRunner representatives.

"It won't set us back too much: a couple of weeks, maybe a month," Cluff said after the meeting. "Just now we were talking about the possible ways to look at traffic-calming solutions for traffic flow through the neighborhood."

FrontRunner South is expected to be on line by 2012 and provide commuter service from Provo to the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub connecting it to the FrontRunner North system, which opened in spring 2008 and extends to Pleasant View in Weber County.

The route uses a portion of the right-of-way of the historic Utah Central Rail Road, and Interstate 15 is parallel to FrontRunner for most of the route.

FrontRunner South will extend from the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub to Provo and have eight new stations, including the one at Thanksgiving Point in north Lehi. Other sites for stations are located in Murray, South Jordan, Draper/Bluffdale, Lehi, American Fork, Vineyard, Orem and Provo.