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Commentary: Expanding Trax would connect Utahns, draw new talent to the state and help solve poor air quality

Related Topics: Traverse Mountains, Vivint

As Utah grows, our transit system needs to grow with it. During the last two decades, I’ve watched the I-15 corridor between Ogden and Provo morph into a major technology hub. When I was a college student in the mid-’90s, Lehi was surrounded by agricultural fields as far as the eye could see.

Today, companies like Adobe, Vivint, Ancestry, Domo, Entrata and many others are building offices along our “Silicon Slopes,” bringing jobs, venture capital, tax revenue and opportunity to the state. Along with these benefits, this growth also has significant implications for our quality of life.

For those of us who live and work here, we know and feel these repercussions all too well — growing congestion, increased traffic, bike and pedestrian accidents as well as worsening air quality to name a few.