Utah district wants planned highway path redrawn

Feb. 21, 2008
Granite district says freeway would be too close to 7 schools

The Granite (Utah) School Board is urging the state Department of Transportation to move the proposed path of the Mountain View freeway away from seven of its schools. The state's preferred alignment for the north-south freeway through the western Salt Lake Valley would pass five elementary schools plus Hunter High School and Hunter Junior High. Air-quality advocates say research shows that placing school kids near freeways puts them at risk for respiratory and other illnesses.

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