The IMZ would provide on-demand rideshare services, similar to the one that launched in west Provo last year, to areas in Eagle Mountain, Saratoga Springs and Lehi, with a goal of launching by the end of summer 2026, according to Utah County Administrator Ezra Nair.

“It’s basically like Uber for transit, so people can download an app and it will take them to the nearest transit station from where they’re at,” Nair said. “The fairs are all the same as UTA. … It’s a really convenient toot that they can stand up pretty quickly.”

In October, the county sent a letter to UTA requesting it re-evaluate its 2026 budget to include Utah County services after UTA’s proposed budget included the allocation of $43 million in state and local dollars to projects in Salt Lake, Davis and Weber counties but none in Utah County.

Nair said UTA returned to the county with the idea for the IMZ. The county will use its fifth-fifths sales tax dollars to pay for a large part of it.

“It’s working with our funding to accelerate projects that would normally take probably four or five years to get to Utah County,” Nair said.

The state will help fund a piece of it in Lehi in the Silicon Slopes area, Nair added.

“We’ve been able to kind of leverage that to expand it to where we’ll have now the whole west side of the county and the whole kind of north side of the county in the planned area,” he said.

The county commission was scheduled to conduct work sessions with the Utah Transit Authority on the matter Wednesday afternoon after the Daily Herald’s print deadline.