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List: Every Salt Lake County road slated for widening by 2055.
Manifest Destiny
A map of Salt Lake County showing the roadways, marked in red, that are prioritized for widening between 2027 and 2055. Wasatch Front Regional Concil When a roadway is widened, traffic gets worse. That dynamic is broadly understood by transportation experts (traffic engineers refer to it as the " iron law of congestion ") but typically flies over the heads of the general public and their elected representatives, who have spent decades and ever-larger amounts of taxpayer dollars on the Sisyphean dream of out-building gridlock.
And that's not likely to change any time soon, as the Wasatch Front…
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