Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Utah

Utah Restaurants: If You’re Not Driving, Spend Your Money Somewhere Else

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 26, 2015 | 10 Comments

Restaurants in Salt Lake City are winning their battle to keep people without cars from ordering at drive-thru windows. Lawmakers in Salt Lake City had passed a law mandating access to drive-thru windows for people walking and biking. Drive-thrus often stay open later than the indoor restaurant, and serve customers faster. The law was met […]

It’s “Transit Christmas” for These Bus and Train Projects in Obama’s Budget

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 3, 2015 | 10 Comments

In addition to the broad strokes of transportation policy outlined by the White House yesterday, the Obama administration also put out a much more specific proposal: the list of transit expansion projects recommended for funding in fiscal year 2016. Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire and Talking Headways fame called it “Transit Christmas.” Though the […]

A Conservative Utah Republican’s Path to Transit Enlightenment

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 13, 2013 | 11 Comments

Greg Hughes is the majority whip of the Utah State Legislature and the chair of its conservative caucus. He got a 100 percent score last year by the conservative Sutherland Institute, a Utah think tank. He also chairs the board of the Utah Transit Authority. The man loves transit. Hughes grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. […]

Robert Grow on Utah’s Decision to Build Transit and Shun Sprawl

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 3, 2013 | 7 Comments

In the late 1990s, an organization called Envision Utah brought together a broad spectrum of people to figure out how to plan for major population growth. They started by asking participants to mark out areas that shouldn’t be developed — wilderness, national parks, agricultural land. Then, they had to figure out how to fit future […]

Q&A With Robert Grow: How Utah Decided to Embrace “Quality Growth”

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 2, 2013 | 1 Comment

If you’ve ever wondered how a deep-red state like Utah has managed to build some of the most ambitious transit expansions in the country, the short answer is: Envision Utah. Starting in the late nineties, the non-profit Envision Utah brought together an incredibly broad spectrum of interests, including plenty of people without a specific stake in […]

A Transit Ad That Puts Car Commercials to Shame

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 8, 2013 | 10 Comments

This new ad from Västtrafik, Sweden’s second-largest public transportation company, has all the well-worn cliches of a good car commercial: the baritone narrator, the stunning landscapes, the empty roads. What’s different about this ad is that what it’s selling will help preserve that natural scenery, rather than pave and pollute it. If only public transit […]

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