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Shocked to see how much wider BRT construction has made Harrison in Ogden. (You now have to cross the equivalent of 10 lanes of traffic!). If you’re improving transit while simultaneously making walkability worse you’re shooting yourself in the foot
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Imagine if 4th South looked like this.
How lovely is this? This #tram in Barcelona fits naturally into its surroundings, is sleek, silent, reliable and comfortable. On the right is a park, ahead is a university and to the left are cafés and housing. Everything interacts harmoniously. #publictransit
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Your regular reminder that the way Utahns pronounce “mountain” and “Layton” is the same as almost everywhere else in the United States.
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For reals tho. A 24-hour pharmacy. Zoom in on that last photo and see all the people on the street on a summer night in 1942. Salt Lake was a more urban city back in the day than it is today.
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Very sad we decided to simply obliterate the hills north of downtown for resource extraction
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Salt Lake City, 1978. Hollowed out by three decades of urban renewal.
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Was stopped in my tracks this evening when I came across this view. Just stood and watched for a few minutes. How are we so lucky to live here?
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Trains up the canyons too (Emigration and Ogden canyons in these photos).
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Unreal aerial shot of downtown Salt Lake in 1936. This photo captures the city in its last years as a thoroughly walkable, transit-oriented urban center.
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Forever heartbroken we had this unreal streetcar network… and simply threw it all away.
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Highly recommend everyone check out the state division of history's website. They've got 275,000+ photos just like these, many that are super high-res. I also post some of my favorites on Instagram @oldsaltlake if you're interested.
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The Beason Building, which got torn down for a parking garage in 1959.
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It was only 8–13 years ago that UDOT widened the road through here. Now, in the year 2023, they want to do it all over again. An absolute joke of a plan that widens the freeway from 8 lanes to 12 right next to neighborhoods that need anything but more pollution.
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It’s absolutely insane that Park City Main Street isn’t pedestrianized.
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Anderson Tower at 6th Avenue and A Street (zoom in on the second photo to see its position overlooking the city).
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Westminster's student life page hypes up Sugar House's vibrancy and has a photo of the Dee's on 7th to prove it lmao
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So devastated rn. Found these apartments in the Avenues right next to single family homes absolutely destroying neighborhood character
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Ingredients of a great residential street:. ✅ narrow width discourages speeding cars. ✅ ample separation between cars and people with a wide park strip. ✅ houses where porches and windows are the focal point, not garages. ✅ lots of greenery and shade
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Some Christmas scenes in Salt Lake, 1936–1964. The great thing about Twitter is you can zoom in to these photos and pore over the details.
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Just thinking about all these businesses that fought like hell ten years ago to prevent a streetcar going up Highland
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Think I'll finish it off with this old corner store on the northeast corner of 9th East and 13th South. Got replaced with parking. Parking is what got most of our lost buildings demolished. When you go downtown and see a parking lot, odds are a dope building once stood there.
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Avenues residents: Air quality in this city is a travesty. Also Avenues residents: We must block any new dangerous, child-killing, polluting bus service from coming into OUR neighborhood. Everyone here drives cars! Lol!.
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Stoked about a direct TRAX line between the airport and the U—but dismayed by that slow, meandering, circuitous routing by Salt Lake Central
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A few more photos I didn't share that I still find really, really something:. More Main Street (peep the headlines on those newspapers)
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Been reminded that UDOT gave us two awful options from the start: 1) a gondola that only stops at the resorts, and 2) widening the road for an "express" bus that only stops at the resorts. The fact that a Zion-style shuttle on the existing two-lane road wasn't an option is absurd.
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Just learned that the densest part of the state is in Provo 💀.
Eight out of 10 people living in Utah reside along the Wasatch Front. This map gives you a good visualization of that. Anyone want to guess what that biggest peak is?. (Map by @MrPecners.) #utpol
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Small grocery stores, which all died when supermarkets became a thing after the 1950s. Most Salt Lakers had a grocery store so close they could walk to it. (Photos taken at 15th and 15th, 6th Avenue and E Street, 7th East and 7th South, and North Temple and Main Street.)
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Imagine if they took this dilapidated big box store and built housing 😢😢
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Love how street names in the old parts of town are simple ones like Kensington, Belmont, and Virginia—and then you go to Draper and you’re driving down Magic Wand Circle or Whispering Horse Lane.
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Absolute cursed land use next to the U. Thousands of people trying to live close to campus and all you get is like 95 percent single-family homes
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Blown away to find out about this. On one hand, it's dope how this infuses downtown with green space and makes it less car-oriented. (The land bridges over State and 2nd West are 🔥🔥.). But I'm astonished and at a loss that this proposal simply does away with COB/JSMB/CAB.
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Regent Street, between 1st and 2nd South. Most of these buildings got demolished for parking garages in the '50s and '60s.
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Always been a big fan of this random density at the mouth of Emigration. If this got proposed today people would riot tho
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Thinking about how lucky Salt Lake got not to have its city center carved up by multiple freeways—especially compared to other cities of a similar size (Kansas City, Cincinnati, and Tulsa for comparison)
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Here's the Dooley Building on West Temple and 2nd South. They demolished it in 1973 to build the Shilo Inn.
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Same thing’s happened to 4th South, 35th South, University Pkwy. These streets weren’t walkable before, but instead of fully leveraging the investment in transit and making it easier to walk to stations the very opposite was done. A damn shame.
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Stoked to say I’ve accepted a position with the city of San Francisco—specifically for SFMTA. I’m gonna miss Salt Lake tons and tons, but I’m beyond hyped to get to know another phenomenal city 🙏🏼.
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Absolutely wild to me that UDOT is simultaneously building four (4) new freeways along the Wasatch Front. Hope it’s all worth it when the oceans boil.
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The Jazz leaving downtown would be so bleak. Sports belong in the city.
A new story on the Jazz's someday desire for a new arena:. - Jazz ownership met with Point of the Mountain in Draper leaders "about a year ago".- Salt Lake City mayor Erin Mendenhall says she's "working hard" to keep Jazz downtown. More details:.
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Treat the canyons with the same reverence as a national park and the solutions become clear and obvious.
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A really sad day for Sugar House and Salt Lake. This is one of the projects that actually had a lot of promise and potential.
It’s gutted. Really bad for everyone. The workers, the residents, the neighborhood. I bet they level it.
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Things I like more than BYU: getting a snap from someone and then seeing it on their story.
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This entire block (bounded by 4th and 5th South, Main Street and West Temple) was razed for a 10-acre parking lot. The Hotel Newhouse at the right was demolished in 1983. Here you're looking at the intersection of 5th and Main.
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Brought to you by the same people who thought buses would kill children and townhomes would decimate the character of their neighborhood
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UDOT’s building two new freeways 20 blocks apart from each other. Why does no one talk about this while issues like the inland port and Parley’s Canyon mine get so much airtime?.
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So many good things cooking in Salt Lake right now!.
JUST IN: Newly released renderings indicate the Miller Family is playing a much bigger role in the development of the 100-acre Power District than originally planned. The family says it plans to invest $3.5 BILLION in the area. #utpol
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It’s wild UDOT can get away with claims like this. There are dozens of well documented freeway cancelations all over the country—including the East Valley Freeway in Salt Lake!
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I did not need this quote by Mitt Romney to ruin my day.
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Been working on something similar in Salt Lake 🙏🏼
This is such a clear and helpful way to show folks which trains will take them where. American transit agencies have a lot to learn. 🚉
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That the Wasatch Front—a western, conservative metropolitan area of 2 million people—went from 0 miles of rail in 1999 to 150 miles in 2013 is nothing short of a miracle.
Salt Lake City’s rail transit: 20 years ago vs today.
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We were so feral in creating parking for suburbanites that we made downtown a much worse, much less interesting place to visit
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One of my greatest sources of shame as an employee of UTA is that we, as a provider of a public service, simply close up shop three days out of the year.
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@JamesLLlamas Yeah 😐 UTA decided to use 40-foot buses for this line (in contrast with UTA’s other operating BRT line). And, for reasons I don’t know, there was an insistence on island platforms for the center-running portions of the project. I’m not too stoked about it.
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You know what this incredibly cursed intersection in Sugar House needs? Another gas station
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Dreaming of the day you can take public transpo to Salt Lake’s best trailheads.
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@sltrib Wildly misleading headline—and obviously most people commenting never even read the article. You spent the day meandering around the Salt Lake Valley before heading to Provo. And your 8-hour figure is round-trip!. Actual travel time from Sugar House to downtown Provo: 1 hr 51 min.
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I’m so sick of this mentality. Cities aren’t museums. They grow and they.change—and you can’t expect to preserve them in amber forever. I’m a huge fan of preservation, but we desperately need density. Signed, a frustrated Salt Laker who’s getting priced out of his own city
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listen to NPR for five minutes and you’ll hear people using glottal stops for “t” sounds all the time.
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New article from the Trib. Looks like we’ll be hearing about this crazy eight-hour journey for a long time to come 🙄
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Public transpo in Salt Lake hasn’t gone this hard since the 2002 Olympics.
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Pains me greatly every time I see someone legally crossing the street and they scurry across like a rat.
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Had a knee-jerk reaction informed by the years of seeing these smokestacks coming home from the airport. I’m now convinced these have potential to be something great if done right, like Battersea Power Station in London.
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Appalled that we keep repeating the same mistakes and getting the same shitty results.
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Something that lifted my spirits after leaving Vivint tonight: I walked through a solid five blocks of 2nd South filled with people enjoying their night and enjoying their city. Salt Lake really feeing alive these days 🔥.
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