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Friends! A new @CityWeekly is out NOW online and heading to newsstands. This week, @journomm investigates a $224 million federal contract recently awarded to Our Rescue and how it ties into a network of questionable "anti-trafficking" efforts. #slc #utpol
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The Pioneer Trail is simultaneously an improvement on the current built environment of Capitol Hill and a comical squandering of opportunity by people who don't understand what they're doing #slc #utpol
The #SLC Traffic Violence Map has been updated with today's Yellow Pin at 1700 South and Redwood Road (UDOT Highway 68) in which a driver ran a red light, struck another vehicle and then spun out into a cyclist, who required hospitalization. #utpol google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…
This is the second pin at this exact intersection, following the May 2025 death of a motorcycle rider.
Redwood, a surface highway designed and controlled by UDOT, is the single deadliest street corridor in Salt Lake City, with at least 15 deaths and countless injuries. #slc
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Salt Lake City has a security guard at the Liberty Park playground that’s been closed for over a year making sure that no kid uses it until the mayor can have a photo-op this evening.
More than a week ago, I tweeted about how trains *force* my family to bike on 1300 South. This guy has been on me ever since and still can’t comprehend what I’m saying.
It’s remarkable how hard this is for east-siders and drivers to understand. #slc
Periodic reminder that the Green Line Trax drops off and picks up directly outside the airport terminal and fare is $2.50. #slc
The Provo 4th District Court doesn’t allow laptops but also has no lockers for storage. They expect you to have a car to store things in and if you don’t you can kick rocks.
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You know what actually this sucks. "The Point" simultaneously ruined the Blue line extension, and is now putting huge financial strain on FrontRunner 2X
Sheesh, just cut the new point station and problem solved axios.com/local/salt-lake-ci…
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The city of Ogden had similar conversations with UDOT about building a grade-separated pedestrian crossing in front of Ogden Union Station. The best UDOT would argee to is a landscaped median in Wall Avenue, to break up the cross walk into 2 parts, as seen in the render:
BTW, if anyone would like more information on Vision Zero and how Hoboken and other cities have fully eliminated traffic violence from their streets, you can find more here visionzeronetwork.org/
SLC was supposed to be VZ, but @slcmayor largely dropped the effort. #slc #utpol
UDOT is a machine that builds surface highways. We put money in, ever-larger surface highways shoot out. Over nearly 100 years, they've become very efficient at it.
Until someone in authority MAKES them change direction, UDOT has little reason to do so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #slc #utpol
UDOT has absolutely no ambition. No matter what you think of the Salt Palace project overall, it’s a generational opportunity to reconfigure 300 West.
We should be burying several blocks of the highway. Instead we’re building a ramp for parking.
Pathetic #utpol #slc
Also, anybody remember when @sltrib noticed the funding for this and thought they had cracked some huge scoop? Good times
New @CityWeekly: SLC Council upzones Ballpark, Sugar House pulls its bid for a BID. #slc #utpol cityweekly.net/news/slc-coun…
