The ceremonial ground breaking for TRAX, the Utah Transit Authority's light rail line from Sandy to Salt Lake City, has been rescheduled for April 11.
UTA spokesman Bill Barnes said the ceremony was pushed back one day so that Gordon Linton, administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, could attend. Barnes said Linton must attend a congressional committee hearing on the 10th.The ceremony is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at 1300 South and 200 West - the site of a future TRAX station and park-and-ride lot - near Franklin Quest Field. The first phase of the $312 million construction project will involve the placement of light rail tracks along the existing rail corridor between 10000 South and 1300 South.
The federal government has agreed to pay $241 million of the construction cost.
Actual work on the 151/2-mile light rail system will begin around the end of the month and is to be completed in early 2000.