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Utah media needs to ask more questions about why UDOT is widening I-15.
There's a bit of journalistic shorthand my Utah media colleagues use when reporting on the Utah Department of Transportation's expensive plans to widen Interstate 15.
There's a bit of journalistic shorthand my Utah media colleagues use when reporting on the Utah Department of Transportation's expensive plans to widen Interstate 15. In report after report they say that, according to UDOT, adding lanes is necessary to "handle the growth" projected for the Wasatch Front in the coming years.
The exact wording varies: sometimes it's "manage," or "accommodate;" on occasion, UDOT must "respond to" or "address" growth. But the general meaning is the same—more people will live in Utah and, ergo, we must have more road for them to drive on.
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