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Having reviewed the proposed changes to "service" provided by the Utah Transit Authority, I think the Legislature should change its name to the Utah Train Authority. Just as the Utah Department of Highway Construction is only worried about building roads (though it infrequently also considers maintaining them, if forced to do so), the UTA apparently no longer is concerned with providing nontrain transit options; it has decided that the public only needs trains to get from place to place.
For example, only one bus "route" serves all of South Jordan, Herriman, Bluffdale and Riverton. That "route" is a flexible route bus, meaning the bus that already wanders all over creation can be taken off its "route" by anybody with a buck, resulting in a "schedule" that is hypothetical, at best.
Why doesn't UTA have east-west buses that transit up and down 10400 South, 11400 South and 12300 South, like they do with 3300 South, 3900 South and 4500 South? How about a north-south bus that traverses 2700 West or 3600 West like they do 700 East or 1300 East?
UTA brings new meaning to "living on the wrong side of the TRAX."
Dave McNeill
South Jordan