Consultant Awarded for Commuter Rail South Extension in Utah

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Parsons Transportation Group (South Jordan, Utah) was selected to provide consultant services for environmental impact studies for a proposed $500 million commuter rail south extension planned for the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) (Salt Lake City, Utah).

Plans call for a 44.7-mile commuter rail line that would extend south from Provo in Utah County to Salt Lake City County. Environmental studies will continue for one year, and upon funding approval, construction is expected to begin in late spring/early summer of 2009 with overall completion slated for 2012. The commuter rail extension will be built in the existing rail corridor next to the Union Pacific railroad right-of-way. The extension will include eight stations and is expected to provide efficient, high-capacity regional transit service within the corridor between Provo and Salt Lake City through 2030. A Construction Management General Contractor (CMGC) firm will be selected around late summer of 2008 to provide final design and construction services for the extension.

UTA, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 1970. It is a publicly operated multi-modal transportation system that operates throughout the Wasatch Front of Utah. Its service area includes Box Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah and Weber counties. UTA is accessible on 69 light-rail vehicles and more than 30 commuter rail vehicles and 600 buses. It also covers 62 routes in Salt Lake County alone with 50,000 stops.

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