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Randall Jeppesen reporting A push by Lehi leaders to keep a freeway connector out of their city appears to have been squashed.
They held rallies and sent out flyers, but with all the noise a citizens' group and Lehi city leaders made, it appears a new freeway connector from I-15 west to the Mountainview Corridor most likely will run through the northern end of Lehi.
Doug Larsen lives in a Lehi subdivision right next to the Utah Department of Transportation's (UDOT) preferred route of 2100 North, and he's actually in favor of the freeway. "There needs to be an access road going out west, and this is the best alternative," he said.
UDOT told the Lehi City Council it would cost an extra $700 million to follow its suggestion of building the freeway connector near the Point of the Mountain--an option UDOT says is not reasonable.
E-mail: rjeppesen@ksl.com
