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$489 million for Utah rail – Mineta visits to announce funding for commuter line
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Occasionally interrupted by the whistles of passing Union Pacific freight trains, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta pledged almost a half-billion dollars Friday for the next stage of rail travel in Utah.
Mineta visited the construction site of the Farmington commuter-rail station, a spot that will one day be the nexus of I-15, U.S. 89 and the Legacy Parkway. There, he signed a full-funding grant agreement, a statement of the Bush administration’s intention to spend $489 million over the next seven years to build the first phase of the Utah Transit Authority’s FrontRunner commuter-rail line. That’s more than 80 percent of the estimated $581 million cost of the project.
"This project couldn’t come at a more critical time," Mineta said, citing projections that the population along the Wasatch Front will increase 62 percent in the next 20 years.
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