Utah council includes Little Cottonwood Canyon gondola in new transportation plan

SALT LAKE CITY — Members of the Wasatch Front Regional Council voted Thursday to approve a new 27-year regional transportation plan that seeks to move forward over 1,000 transportation projects by 2050, including a gondola for Little Cottonwood Canyon. Gondola plan opponents sat quietly as the council members — a group of elected leaders from throughout most of the Wasatch Front and state agency representatives — voted unanimously in favor of the plan, after rejecting an amendment that would have moved the large plan forward without the gondola. The vote...