Many new residents are flooding into Utah. Most of them unfortunately, have brought their bloated SUVs. Pollution now fouls the air, and gridlock is imminent. The stupid solution would be to build more roads, expand the freeways and pave anything that doesn't move. But turning the valley into a giant freeway won't solve our transportation woes. Los Angeles tried that and spawned a metropolis so foul that the residents recently tried to burn it down. Will Utahns commit the same blunders and create a similar kind of junky, auto centered, grimcrack, strip mall civilization? Since Utah is governed by Republicans, the likely answer is yes. Republicans worship the monsterous SUVs and high growth the way Druids worship trees with blind devotion. What we need to do is what many European cities have done; design our cities around human beings, not machines. We must make driving more difficult, not easier. This can be done by closing some roads to the portly SUVs, reducing the freeway to two lanes and putting a weight mile tax on SUV's At the same time we need to add hundreds of buses to the fleet, create a light rail system and build safe pathways through the valley so people can bike or walk where they want. By a enlightened Utah resident.