A sales tax hike just passed by Salt Lake and Tooele counties will help improve bus service, but its far from enough to build future hoped-for rail expansions and other major projects, Utah Transit Authority officials told state lawmakers Wednesday.
In short, they say they still need more money for the sort of system envisioned in long-term plans with more TRAX lines, double-tracked and electrified FrontRunner trains and 200 more miles of so-far unfunded bus rapid transit.
However, UTA promised legislators that all of its share of the just-approved tax increase will go to improve services — and is not needed to keep up payments on its $2.