A longtime ban against big-rig trucks on Legacy Parkway now seems all but certain to disappear Jan. 1, after a Senate committee on Thursday voted down a bill seeking to temporarily extend it.
“I have to sell my house now,” Cynthia Sahm yelled at the Senate Transportation Committee after it rejected the bill. The Woods Cross resident lives adjacent to the parkway, and has a child with cystic fibrosis. She says increased pollution from trucks will force them to leave.
“They didn’t listen to the people,” Sahm said, shaking with anger. The hearing was packed with neighbors —wearing flowers to represent the wild ones that grow along Legacy — who worry the parkway is about to change essentially from a country lane to be another Interstate 15.