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Originally Posted by Comrade
Maybe an assumption on my part that, in an article titled '...demolishing scores of homes and businesses', the red would, you know, be areas that are prime for demolition.
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In fairness, I'm not calling you out specifically. But the general outrage (in particular,
Building Salt Lake) seems centered more around an "anti-freeway expansion at any cost" moral cause, rather than actually looking at what's being built.
The project has a lot of good upsides. For one, Beck Street will connect all the way to North Salt Lake, rather than forcing people onto the freeway. This gives new sidewalks and bike lanes to connect downtown with Davis County. It's also a great opportunity to engage with UDOT on getting better east-west pedestrian connectivity in those neighborhoods north of 600 North. Two new freeway interchanges between Warm Springs (replacement) and I-215 will give people walking more places to cross the freeway. A new cross street underneath I-15 in Woods Cross helps pedestrians.
But overall, I'm just not seeing this project as the demolition apocalypse they make it sound like it to be. This is not SLC's "Mount Hood Freeway," so to speak. Unless UDOT drifts significantly from the EIS maps,
red likely means changes in sound levels may impact those parcels, or a noise wall may move a few feet one way or another.
New neighborhood undercrossing in Woods Cross
Extension of Beck Street into Davis County
New pedestrian-only cross access at 500 North
Wider sidewalks at 400 North