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Mark Giauque reportingIs it worth the cost? A group of businesses wants to spend millions to speed up expansion of light rail through the Salt Lake Valley.
Nine hundred million dollars is certainly a lot of money, but people forming a coalition of businesses say it's an investment into economic development. They want TRAX expansions into Draper, West Valley, West and South Jordan and the airport to be completed within a decade.
UTA's Justin Jones says TRAX is proving it's worth.
Justin Jones: "We are hitting close to 60 thousand passengers a day, that is a lot of people on the train and not on our roads."
But to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, supporters say they'd have to tap into taxpayers wallets either through increased fuel taxes or even impact fees. All of that would have to be approved by the legislature.
