 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Transit time in Utah County
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Utah County residents want the chance to pay higher taxes so they
can have commuter rail and other transit alternatives.
Well, of course they do.
That much should have been clear to Utah County commissioners back
in 2000, as it was to leaders in Salt Lake, Weber and Davis counties.
They all voted to allow a ballot measure that year asking voters to
approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase to fund more transit.
Voters in all three counties approved the measure. But Utah County
co...
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