MYTH: A bridge across Utah Lake would benefit Eagle Mountain.

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"But this report or that study projects a million billion people in Utah County by 2050"

Always be weary of projections. Twenty years ago, we were promised commercial flights in and out of Provo airport that would make Utah County a legitimate business location. Has it happened? Well, the couple of feeble attempts have failed miserably, and there aren't any more prospects on the horizon.

And instead Utah Country becoming a business mecca, Salt Lake County has solidified its hold on that title.

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The point that both private industry and politicians are missing is that northwestern Utah County is far better situated for connections with the Salt Lake Valley than the Provo-Orem area. That must be why far more people commute northward than eastward. Well, that plus the fact that the Salt Lake Valley is where most of the jobs are.

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Visit bit . ly / 1SbAff (remove spaces) to see UDOT's plan for 2100 N between Saratoga and Lehi -- Four lanes by 2011, and eventual plans for a freeway and frontage roads for plenty of overland, environmentally friendly east-west capacity.

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Someone messaged me and told me to share this link: bit . ly / 1Ew5TU (remove the spaces), supposedly to validate the need for the bridge. So I had a look at the link and here's what I found out:

Between 1960 and 2000, there was a 3.4x increase in population, and since the line on the graph is fairly flat, we can realistically expect another 3.4x increase by 2040.

So by 2011, UDOT stay ahead of the curve by increasing north county east-west capacity from 2 lanes to 12 lanes without the bridge.

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