To the editor:
In the May 28 Readers' Forum, Ralph Henderson misunderstands the funding proposed for a light-rail system, or was it a typographical error? It is proposed to use one-quarter of 1 percent added sales tax to finance this needed system, not a one-quarter percent increase in our taxes.There may be some differences between this area and the big cities, but the problem remains; increasing pollution of our valley air and added overcrowding of the highways. Adding lanes to the freeway will only encourage more automobiles and worsening of air problems.
It may take a while to complete the light-rail system, with branches to the airport and to the far reaches of the south county, but anyone who values the ecology should support its beginning.
Hal Schultz
Salt Lake City