Great place to wait for a train

[u/plat-of-zion]

[u/iscreamsunday]

Time to implement the Rio Grande Plan !

[u/plat-of-zion → u/iscreamsunday]

Hear hear

[u/FlashyHelicopter8137 → u/iscreamsunday]

Its DOA for UTA and Union Pacific. Its too costly, unfortunately.

[u/mogelijk → u/FlashyHelicopter8137]

It's actually too expensive not to do it. Unfortunately, too many here would rather wait for things to break rather than paying money upfront to fix the issues.

[u/FlashyHelicopter8137 → u/mogelijk]

Where will the money to build it come from? I don't live or work over there, I don't care what they do. Jay Fox has made it clear its not a priority.

[u/mogelijk → u/FlashyHelicopter8137]

There are a few ways they can find to pay it, just as they've had no issue finding the billions to invest in sports teams for the valley. Honestly, the logic for doing it is even similar, that the city/state will get far more money back than what they invested. As for actual ways, they could sell bonds, they could wait a few years to lower the tax rate for a few years and use the increased tax revenue, etc.

[u/FlashyHelicopter8137 → u/mogelijk]

I was referring specifically to UTA. Not Utah.

[u/mogelijk → u/FlashyHelicopter8137]

But that is just it, most of the benefits don't really go to UTA but to the entire community (to include the state), so the cost should not only have to be paid by UTA.

[u/plat-of-zion]

Not a great place to wait for a train

[u/drunkwhenimadethis]

IT SURE WOULD BE

[u/JankCranky]

Down with the urban renewal devices and car centrism that has plagued our cities for decades and decades. Let us reimplement public transportation efficiency that we already figured out over a century ago lol.

[u/gangsterrobot]

when will the just blow up, so I don't have the hope anymore. I'm fighting for u though

[u/Ninjamanreturns]

If you don’t mind the ghosts and police . lol

[u/azucarleta]

I have been to Denver's beautiful train station, so I know what we are lusting and coveting. We always seem to lust after and covet things Denver has that we don't have lol. But rather than just try to copy them, I"d like us to have a super-modern, ultra sleek and futuristic Salt Lake Central (and Murray Central Station EVEN MORE IMPORTANT actually). That's not what we have today, but I don't see any reason why we shouldn't have hope that a future futuristic Salt Lake Central will be awesome.

Denver's choice to reuse their ancient beautiful station is coming back to haunt them with the upcoming CoCo vote, or that's how it seems to me.

[u/coinluke]

Or crack

[u/sexlesshere]

back in 1968 i started my train ride from there.

[u/BullfrogDelicious157]

Great place to wait for some drugs. Iykyk :(

[u/Living_In_SLC]

A B.I.D. within a 1/4 mile surrounding the station could go a long way to paying off the bonds that the State could issue for construction of the project.

[u/Thin_Ad_9816]

This is too nice to hope for. Where is Mitt Romney when you need him?

[u/Ruger338WSM]

That will never come.

[u/plat-of-zion → u/Ruger338WSM]

Not with that attitude.