Posted by Jane Clark -- great news on this highway!

From November 20
RECENT VICTORY: Sierra Club Lawsuit Halts Utah's Sprawling Legacy
Highway

This weekend, a federal court ordered that the Utah Department of
Transportation halt all work on the proposed "Legacy Highway."  The highway
is a 14 mile bypass that runs directly through the Great Salt Lake
Wetlands, one of the most important inland shorebird breeding grounds in
the world. This $451 million dollar highway has long been opposed by the
Sierra Club, which proposes instead to invest in public transit systems to
solve traffic concerns.

In the court's decision, the judges questioned whether the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers truly considered the impact of the project on the health of
the wetlands.  "This is fantastic," responded Marc Heileson of the Utah
Chapter of the Sierra Club.  "I'm very happy the ecosystem will stay
intact."

For more information on Legacy Highway, go to:
http://www.stoplegacyhighway.org/

For articles that ran on the injunction in Utah papers, go to:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,350006903,00.html for the Deseret
News, and;
http://www.sltrib.com/11172001/utah/149738.htm for the Salt Lake Tribune

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