Wasatch Front Transportation Concept

[jubguy3]

Okay, so with the recent activity on the Salt Lake Transit thread, I thought we might make a thread to discuss concept plans for Transportation in the Wasatch Front.

We should hold separate discussions about the following topics so we can stay organized:

• Station Design / TOD Opportunities
• Bike / Complete Streets
• Light Rail in SLCounty
• Light Rail in WFMetro
• Bus, BRT, and Streetcar in SLCo
• Bus, BRT, and Streetcar in WFMetro
• High Capacity Transit for Utah County
• Eagle Mountain Sustainability Issues
• Concept / Moonshot plans

If you feel we are missing out on an important discussion (say, TSA zoning or the Airport), I will add it.

We should try and evaluate how we think Transit in and around SLC should be operated and built up to 2040, keeping in mind the transit needs with expand exponentially as places earlier uninhabited (the hills of the Oquirrhs, Cedar Valley) rapidly grow accommodating a generation no longer wanting to drive a car, but a generation that wants to use transit.

I say we start with Moonshot plans, so that we know what we want before we start to develop the transit plan for our Metro reasonably.

Helpful links:
http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:0:::1:T,V:7 - future transportation plans for the Wasatch Front and Utah
http://transitmix.net/map/28235 - this is the bus map for the Wasatch Front, created almost entirely by CountyLemonade, but i added a little bit of stuff in. He did the boring part lol. Please remix, don't modify the actual map. This is both a regular plan and a moonshot plan showing what we need and what we want.
http://www.streetmix.net - Useful for the complete streets discussion.
http://www.rideuta.com/mc/?page=UTAProjects - UTA Projects list
http://www.mountainaccord.com/Library_Past_Studies.php - Mountain Accord plans and studies
http://www.wfrc.org/new_wfrc/index.php/plans - WFRC plans
https://mountainland.org/site/departments/view/1 - MAG transportation center. please click on MAG mapping center and enable all labels to see what MAG is trying to do to utah county, including 6 freeways, two that cross Utah Lake.

[SLC Projects]

Not to sound rude, but it was my understanding that the Transit Thread covers all of the Wasatch Front. Don't really see the need on two transit threads unless I'm missing something here.

[SLCdude]

On the other hand, this thread would probably help to keep the Transit thread less cluttered. I'd rather see real updates there and some discussion on ideas.