As it is now SR-73 (Main Street) is blocked way too often. It is not only an inconvienence but it is a danger. Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain do not have a hospital and corrently SR-73 is the only way out to the hospital in American Fork. When a train is going through Lehi all traffic, including emergency traffic, comes to a stop. New routes are being planned and should be under construction soon but they too will have to cross the tracks unless someone adds over or underpasses.

Maybe UTA should find another rail line around downtown - we don't need main street clogged more than it is already

I hope UTA's plan of attack is to push the line from Salt Lake to Murray as quickly as possible while constructing the rest of it to Provo. At least that way Salt Lake County would have a station in the middle of the valley that goes north and also has great connections to Trax.

UTA is a monster that has interested only in what is good for them. Shame on us for letting them rule over our government.

I wonder if the Lehi mayor owns the Howard Johnson Hotel chain?

Re: Evets

And yet Eagle Mountain can afford to budget $2.5 million for parks and park improvements. Perhaps more financial attention should be paid to highway access.

Those FrontRunner trains don't take to long to go through a crossing. It might give me a break in traffic so I can make a right turn onto Main Street.

If Main Street is so congested and the rail crossing is such a problem, why wasn't the underpass on the long range plans for UDOT?

Re: Evets

Why would people live somewhere with no access? What were they thinking? Probably that the other taxpayers would all get together and pool their money to solve their traffic problems so that they can live way out west, and have a nice long commute. Why didn't I think of that?

Gone are the days of riding my bike on Main Street to get some candy at the drugstore. Here are some thoughts from a Lehi Boy:

--I'm glad I moved from Main Street to a quiet neighborhood off State Street. I had lived near the roundabout, as it was built, and its addition was a good thing for traffic. But now traffic is outpacing the road.

--Hopefully 2100 N. Freeway and 1000 S. will encourage the westerners to leave Main alone. Maybe train troubles will encourage that avoidance.

--I'm a fan of the center of town so I'm more concerned about maintaining its integrity than I am an opponent of splitting the city up with major east/west roads. Keep town quiet for me and let the newcomers live in the sprawl.

--All things considered, the City Council and Mayor over the past 15 years have done a wonderful job. They've kept the growth in-check as much as possible. Lehi continues to be a place worth admiring...much due to planning. Pressurized Irrigation was in place around 1990. Recycling programs exist. Traffic management that should be state/county concerns are addressed by the city. Great Job and Keep It Up!

Thank You Lehi

Lehi is getting good at creating worst-case scenarios to get their way.

This "stoppage" of traffic is entirely different than the ones caused by freight line. You are talking merely the time a traffic signal would cycle with the amount of time the crossing arms would be down for the commuter train. This isn't the 5-10 minutes at times when the freight lines roll through there at 20 mph.

This is nothing more than a city trying to squeeze money for a pet project.

Main Street has been very poorly managed for a long time. UDOT has plans to make it wider west of the tracks, the only question is when they will get to it.

The one hope is that the East-West connector project will be done before FrontRunner South and that it will have an overpass where it crosses the rails (as it appears to have in the plans). That would at least allow an option even if it's not as straight as Main Street.

By the time Frontrunner starts AF's main street will have been extended out to Redwood road with a bridge over the railroad. Also Redwood road is being widened up to the Bangerter Highway right now. Soon after that 2100 north will be made a 4 lane artery with a empty corridor saved for the 6 lane Mountain view freeway for whenever that gets built.

UDOT may eventually get around to improving main street railroad crossing but they don't have any plans on widening it, because of the historic buildings in downtown Lehi.

Let's do it right the first time and save money in the long haul

Lehi's 'historic' main street is a blight of old crappy buildings. The whole town needs to be torn down and a much bigger main street should be built.

in the case of medical emergencies, if the freight train or FrontRunner clogs Main Street then the medical emergency vehicles could take the patient to one of the hospitals in Salt Lake County using Redwood Road or call in the helicopter.

If medical emergencies are really having a problem with trains blocking the road, then Lehi should be asking Union Pacific for the under or over pass. FrontRunner trains will block the intersection for maybe one minute, the freight trains block the intersection for 5-10 minutes on a regular basis and longer if they have an accident or break down.