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Salt Lake County voters should not let the absence of a specific listing of priority projects scuttle a rare opportunity to do something truly significant for the future of transportation along the Wasatch Front.
Most certainly KSL believes voters deserve to know more precisely where their money will go if they approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase at the polls November 8. Without question key legislators have shirked their duty by failing to even consider before the election the process to be used by county mayors and the Salt Lake County Council to prioritize the list of projects.
Parenthetically, why the legislature has such sway in the matter still baffles us.
Regardless, that's the hand voters have been dealt, and while specifics may be lacking, there's much more promise than apprehension that the money will be used as intended for adding critical TRAX lines, building Commuter Rail through the valley, and acquiring land for highway projects.
The bottom line is this: each of the projects is integral to preventing gridlock and increasing mobility as the population grows, and ultimately, each will be built. Better to pass Proposition 3 now in order to accelerate the construction process, than to reject the measure and pay much more later on for what inevitably will be.
