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Utah task force asks: How did Seattle win support for doubling transit taxes?

With millions of new residents expected to pack into the Wasatch Front’s tight geography in coming decades, Utah officials are studying how to fund better transportation. They heard Thursday how Seattle is facing exactly the same challenge. Its residents voted two years ago to nearly double transit taxes — raising $1 billion a year — to build more mass transit, especially light rail lines similar to the Utah Transit Authority’s TRAX trains. “We’re doing it because we’re serious about economic gr...

 

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