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Transportation in B

The Story

New funding or reprioritized funding allows some new transit to be built in addition to some new roads. Homes are closer to jobs and shopping than in Scenarios A and C. People spend less time and money on driving than in Scenario A, but more than in the other scenarios. Infrastructure costs are higher than in Scenario A but lower than in the other scenarios.

Funded road projects in this scenario include:

  • The Mountain View Corridor expanded as a freeway through SR-73 (with 8 total lanes, in addition to frontage roads)
  • A 2100 North freeway in Lehi
  • I-15 widening projects (12 total lanes)
  • Redwood Road widening projects (6 lanes north of Porter Rockwell and 4 lanes south)

Funded transit projects in this scenario include:

  • A Blue Line TRAX extension to Lehi
  • A Bus Rapid Transit line from the Red Line stop in Daybreak to the prison site (running along 12600 South)
  • A ride pooling system that acts as a commuter circulator between TRAX, FrontRunner, and the Lehi job core which may later utilize autonomous (self-driving) technologies

Results

  • From the Point of the Mountain during AM peak period, it takes 37 minutes to drive to downtown Salt Lake City, 36 minutes to the Salt Lake airport, and 49 minutes to the University of Utah. During PM peak period, it takes 82 minutes to drive to downtown Provo.
  • A typical Point of the Mountain resident can access 1.1 million jobs within a 45-minute commute by car, or 60,000 jobs within a 45-minute commute by public transportation.
  • 21,000 trips in the Point of the Mountain area are made by public transportation each day.
  • On average, a Point of the Mountain household pays $805 per month for travel expenses (gas, insurance, car payments, transit fares, etc.).
  • Over the next 33 years, new transportation infrastructure in the area costs $3.2 billion for regional projects and $2.6 billion for local projects.
  • 35% of homes in the area are within ½ mile of high-frequency public transportation (e.g., bus rapid transit, TRAX, and FrontRunner).
  • 41% of the work trips from Point of the Mountain residents never leave the Point of the Mountain area.

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