Transportation
Improving transportation is more than a convenience to motorists. A system of accessible highways and roads is essential to a thriving economy; customers need to be able to quickly drive to businesses, and firms need to have goods delivered to their stores.
Working with area legislators, Representative Kiser helped secure a $70 million donation of land for the Mountain View Corridor. He opposes making the Mountain View Corridor a toll road, and has been successful in ensuring that construction will begin on the southern end to help Salt Lake County residents.
As chair of the Transportation Committee, Representative Todd Kiser had made sure District 41 has received its share of funding for major projects:
Completed
123rd South has been widened from 7th East to Bangerter Highway
7th East has been widened from Sego Lily Drive to 106th South, with funding to extend to 123rd South (2010)
State Street was widened from 90th South to 106th South
106th /104th South has been widened from State Street to Redwood Road, with funding to extend to Bangerter Highway
An exchange (114th South) and widening to Bangerter Highway has been funded (2010)
• Diversified Transportation funding to include sales tax on transportation related
transactions
• Increased ongoing sales-tax funding for Transportation by nearly $200 million
• Funded more than $600 million in transportation projects using one-time cash surpluses
without issuing debt
Funded
Redwood Road
Bangerter Highway to Saratoga Springs 2010