Posted Aug 13, 2008, 5:02 AM
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Ground broken for Utah Co. FrontRunner - Newest 44-mile long line will serve southern metro.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1...tator-cvr-7006
A FrontRunner train is displayed at the groundbreaking of the future Lehi station. (Ashley Lowery, Deseret News)
...James Simpson, administrator for the Federal Transit Administration exclaimed..."Most of you only know what goes on in the Salt Lake City region and you don't have a way to compare," Simpson said. "We go around the country and if we were going to grade this like in school, Salt Lake City gets an A+ and the norm is a C to a D. So you really have a tremendous team here."
Tuesday's groundbreaking marks the beginning of a two- to three-year process of bringing the commuter rail from Salt Lake City to Provo. The new 44-mile line will have eight stops, currently planned in Salt Lake City, Murray, Sandy/South Jordan, Draper/Bluffdale, Lehi, American Fork, Orem and Provo.
FrontRunner South is part of the Front Lines 2015 project, which also includes the Mid-Jordan and West Valley TRAX lines currently under construction, as well as the Draper and Airport TRAX lines, which will break ground within the next year.
Last edited by delts145; Aug 14, 2008 at 1:34 PM.
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