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House committee approves bill to let UDOT proactively buy land for future transit routes.
A bill clarifying the Utah Department of Transportation's authority to purchase and hold land in reserve for future transit routes earned the unanimous approval of the House Transportation Committee on Wednesday.
In Draper, a defunct rail right-of-way owned by UTA could one day be restored as an extension of the Trax Blue Line CAPITOL HILL—A bill clarifying the Utah Department of Transportation's authority to purchase and hold land in reserve for future transit routes earned the unanimous approval of the House Transportation Committee on Wednesday.
The bill, HB229 , would formally add "fixed-guideway transit" to the permissible uses of UDOT's Corridor Preservation Fund, allowing the department to proactively seek out purchase agreements with property owners whose parcels stand in the intended path of a…
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