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Rocky and Commuters
by Ben Joe Markland
Mayor Rocky Anderson recently gave his “state of the city” address. He said:
”The choices of those who have decided to commute long distances, mostly as they drive one person per automobile, and to foul our air, clog our roads and increase our nation’s dependence upon foreign oil, should not be encouraged and further accommodated by asphalting over open spaces and exacerbating those enormous problems these people have already created,” We want our friends from the north to come to Salt Lake City; we just don’t want them to increase our city’s traffic, further foul our air, undermine the quality of our lives and make us sick simply because of the choices they make about where they live and how they get around.”
I am totally amazed at how clueless he is about Northern Utah. Anderson is from Logan. This attitude that we have chosen to live here and commute to the “Holy City” of Salt Lake is absurd. If I could afford to live there and work I would. Housing was cheaper in my area of South Ogden, but my job there was not a job and many others have brought us to Salt Lake. Tell the employers of Salt Lake that they can no longer higher skilled workers outside of the county and see what they say. Rocky is way off track and out of touch with reality.
Posted by Editor on January 13, 2005 02:23 PM
