That failure has prompted an overhaul of Port leadership. Never doubting this belief, Inland Port officials have spent $40 million on overhead and borrowed $150 million in taxpayer-backed bonds, with nothing to show for it. Adhering to a nearly mystical belief that “if we build it, they will come,” Inland Port officials assumed that LA’s ports could outsource key functions to Salt Lake City, easing congestion at those ports and securing a national role for the city in the Trans-Pacific supply chain. Utah’s imports come mostly from Asia by way of the two Los Angeles seaports. To those concerns, we can add the near certainty that it will fail as a business, according to Professor Robert Leachman, a nationally renowned logistics expert. Utahns have long feared that building an Inland Port will aggravate Salt Lake Valley’s dismal air pollution and traffic congestion.
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