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The Wasatch Front s population growth and its ever-increasing popularity as a year-round recreation destination is having profound impacts on our canyons. This is especially evident in Little Cottonwood Canyon, where traffic often snarls the highway and the roads leading to it, with projections showing it will only continue to worsen in the future.
After decades of discussions, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) initiated a study in 2018 to look at addressing mobility and reliability issues in Little Cottonwood Canyon and along Wasatch Boulevard between Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon. This exhaustive process has included vetting 124 concepts and five draft alternatives, which UDOT has now narrowed to two preferred solutions to reduce traffic issues in Little Cottonwood Canyon.
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Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
Utah’s skyrocketing housing prices.
Whether a tax cut could help Utah’s inflation woes.
Whether he supports a gondola over buses to address traffic gridlock in Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Gov. Spencer Cox covered a lot of ground in his monthly PBS Utah news conference on Thursday. Here are the highlights.
Drought: Struggling farmers, restrictions, and some ‘good news’
The West’s drought, Cox said, has been especially concerning for one industry in Utah: farmers.
“As dire as it is with residential watering, it’s far worse in our agriculture community,” said Cox, who owns an alfalfa farm where he lives in Fairview in Sanpete County. “With COVID and the destructions in supply chains, this year could put farmers out of business.”