Residents near Legacy Parkway are not yet surrendering in a battle to keep the roadway more like a scenic country lane than another noisy, air-polluting Interstate 15.
About 100 people gathered Wednesday night at North Salt Lake’s Foxboro Elementary, adjacent to the parkway, to try to figure out what might be possible now that the Legislature rejected bills to extend its longtime ban on big-rig trucks there. Options discussed included pushing state officials to reconsider, seeking to make the road as livable as possible amid changes, staging protests or perhaps filing lawsuits.
“I’m in. I’m willing to keep going” to fight to keep the big-rig ban and protect the area, said Angie Keeton, organizer of the meeting that drew local legislators and city leaders in addition to residents.