Provo-Orem transit project is full steam ahead as opponents drop legal challenges

Citizens groups have abandoned legal challenges aimed at halting a controversial $190 million bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Provo and Orem, after a 4th District judge ruled Monday against one of their two lawsuits.The groups had delayed appealing a similar loss in a sister lawsuit to await the outcome of the second one. Now they say it is too late to appeal both in time to qualify to put the anti-BRT measure on the November ballot for voters to decide — so they are dropping legal chal