| Updated: Jan. 22, 2021, 12:41 a.m.
Forget the proposed $1 billion TRAX line from Draper to Lehi, which was pushed mostly to spur development at the soon-to-be vacated state prison site at the Point of the Mountain.
The Utah Transit Authority, after a year and a half of study, concluded that it would be smarter to build a much less expensive bus rapid transit (BRT) system there instead to connect to other TRAX, FrontRunner and bus routes.
“They both would have economic and land-use benefits,” Patti Garver, Point of the Mountain Study project manager told the UTA Board last week. And projected “ridership was similar for both.”