It never fails. Wishy-washy politicians. Some time ago the SLCo Council and SLCo Mayor Peter Corroon nixed the building of a REAL Soccer Stadium in Sandy.
But pressure does amazing things. After a meeting with the governor, SL City Mayor Rocky Anderson, and others, Corroon caved and now the stadium is being built and the ground has even been broken with a plan for how it will be funded.
Today’s Deseret News reports that the proposed funding for Real would cut into transportation budget.
A proposed deal to fund the Real Salt Lake soccer stadium in Sandy has complicated plans to pay for commuter rail through Salt Lake County, according to House Speaker Greg Curtis.
Instead of using hotel-room tax dollars to fund the line, county leaders may have to forgo building one of four new TRAX lines in favor of building commuter rail, said Curtis, a Sandy Republican.
This is crazy. Citizens have been crying out for more TRAX lines and now a new project will supercede projects on which voters already approved?
I am not happy about this and will certainly make it known that our proposed TRAX lines need to stay in the list of projects to be implemented.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 