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 A little over a month ago, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall approached Utah’s largest public transportation service with an idea. She wanted to know if it was possible that Utah Transit Authority could waive fare costs in Salt Lake City in February.

In thinking ahead to May – National Bike Month – our map of the month features a new look at bicycle-based travel along the Wasatch Front.

Recently North Salt Lake adopted a Town Center Branding and Wayfinding plan which gives the city a brand and aesthetic that identifies it as a distinctive destination that residents and visitors want to experience. 

TOOELE (Tooele Transcript) – A steady stream of residents interested in, or concerned with, the future of transportation in Tooele County attended an open house hosted by the Wasatch Front Regional Council on Thursday. The open house, held at Tooele City Hall, ran from 4:30-6:30 p.m., with representatives from the regional council on hand to answer questions about the long-range

SALT LAKE CITY – Leaders from Tooele County, Tooele City and Grantsville City, in close partnership with staff at the Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), UDOT and UTA, have created a draft long-range transportation plan for the Tooele Valley through 2040 that includes proposed new or expanded roadway, transit and walking and biking facilities. The public is invited to provide

SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) – A plan on how to spend $4 billion on highway and transit projects over the next six years was adopted Thursday by the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Projects newly added to that list, which is updated annually, range from the new West Davis Corridor freeway in Davis and Weber counties to a

OGDEN (Standard Examiner) – Hundreds of transportation projects, worth billions of dollars — including many in Weber, Davis, Morgan and Box Elder counties — are awaiting public scrutiny. The Wasatch Front Regional Council, Utah’s metropolitan planning arm, has identified more than $4 billion of priority transportation projects that could be funded during the next six years — part of the

SALT LAKE CITY – Public has opportunity to shape list of upcoming transportation projects. The Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), in conjunction with the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and the Utah Transit Authority (UTA), has identified hundreds of priority transportation projects totaling approximately $4 billion to improve mobility, strengthen the economy and enhance quality of life along the Wasatch

SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) – Do you applaud or hate the proposal to add to regional transportation plans $10.8 million for the West Davis Corridor freeway in Kaysville and Farmington — which some resident groups fought but state officials are pushing forward? How about a new $75 million bus rapid transit route from downtown Ogden to Weber

SALT LAKE CITY (Utah Policy) – Here’s a simple little multi-billion-dollar question for Utah’s transportation planners: Will autonomous vehicles, smart highways and the sharing economy increase congestion or reduce congestion on our highways? It’s a multi-billion-dollar question because advanced technology and the sharing economy are coming very quickly to our vehicles and highways – along with rapid population growth. Meanwhile,