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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The plan to build four new TRAX lines in Salt Lake County may be in jeopardy.
If a transportation bill is drafted for an expected legislative special session it could override a bond for light rail lines that the Salt Lake County commission has placed on the November ballot.
At a Utah Transit Authority board meeting yesterday U-T-A head John Inglish said money in the transportation bill wouldn't be guaranteed to go to light rail.
Inglish says where the money from tax increases proposed in the bill would go could be open-ended. That means other projects such as commuter rail or roads could take priority.
U-T-A is working on two different proposals for the bill.
One would have the quarter-cent sales tax increase funding "regionally significant" projects like roads. The other would allow individual counties to put the tax hike on the ballot and then let the counties decide what would be funded.
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