With millions of new residents expected to pack into the Wasatch Frontâs 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 â raising $1 billion a year â to build more mass transit, especially light rail lines similar to the Utah Transit Authorityâs TRAX trains. âWeâre doing it because weâre serious about economic gr...