Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Salt Lake City

Parking Madness: Grand Rapids vs. Salt Lake City

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 28, 2014 | 33 Comments

The final spot in the “Elite Eight” of parking craters is riding on this match. Either Grand Rapids, Michigan, or Salt Lake City, Utah, will move on to the second round of Parking Madness, Streetsblog’s annual contest for eternal parking infamy. Both cities have their natural strengths. Grand Rapids, of course, is part of the […]

Lessons From Salt Lake City on Building Transit on Time and Under Budget

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 16, 2013 | 2 Comments

Since 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah, has added 140 miles of light rail and commuter rail — each line completed early and under budget. That tremendous civic accomplishment has made the city a somewhat unlikely transit expansion success story. The Eno Center for Transportation recently took a close look at Salt Lake City’s experience in […]

Salt Lake City: A Red State Capital Builds Ambitious Transit

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Jul 2, 2013 | No Comments

According to Congress for New Urbanism President John Norquist, the Salt Lake City area has the fastest growing rail system in America. And as Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt pointed out last month, “It’s the only city in the country building light rail, bus rapid transit, streetcars and commuter rail at the same time.” Since the late 1990s, SLC […]

Salt Lake City: How a Remote Red-State City Became a Transit Leader

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 5, 2013 | 29 Comments

It’s number one in the nation in per-capita transit spending. The only city in the country building light rail, bus rapid transit, streetcars and commuter rail at the same time. And that city — Salt Lake City — is a town of just over 180,000 in a remote setting in a red state. It’s a […]

Streetsies 2011: The Local Edition

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 29, 2011 | 1 Comment

Yesterday, we started our year-end 2011 round-up. We lamented transit cuts in places where transit is more important than ever, cheered the successful ballot initiatives that will fund transportation lifelines, took a moment to explore the nuances of some difficult issues, and called out Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin for some hare-brained ideas about the […]

How Salt Lake City Became a Leader in Transit-Oriented Development

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Oct 24, 2011 | 6 Comments

In 2004, Salt Lake City faced a challenging question: How do you fit 1.4 million additional residents into a region hemmed in by mountains on the east and water on the west? In the course of solving that problem, the city ended up answering several other head-scratchers, like: How do you get buy-in for smart-growth […]