August 2023 Change Day Review
UTA has published its proposed changes for the August 2023 Change Day and we want to provide our review of the changes. To learn more, and to provide public comment on the changes, click here to be taken to...
UTA has published its proposed changes for the August 2023 Change Day and we want to provide our review of the changes. To learn more, and to provide public comment on the changes, click here to be taken to...
From February 12 to the 21st UTA will be offering free fares on its system as part of the NBA All-Star Game (to learn more, click here). As part of this, we want to learn how people feel about...
If the Utah Department of Transportation were actually called the Utah Department of Roads, we could at least understand why the government agency is only capable of building roads at the expense of Utah’s future. Yesterday, UDOT held its...
During the summer of 2022, members of UTRU’s Board of Directors started to notice more bikes appearing on buses, light rail, and commuter rail – specifically on the Utah Transit Authority’s (UTA) network. With this in mind, the board...
Our Fall 2022 Newsletter is here! In this edition: Mark your calendars for our September Quarterly Membership Meeting, featuring speakers from UTA, The Wasatch Front Regional Council, and the Utah Rail Passengers Association. Don’t forget to add our October...
UTRU’s August board meeting is scheduled for August 18, 2022, at 5:30 PM and members are invited to observe and participate. Our agenda is as follows: Approval of July Minutes – All Executive Director activities report/Membership update – Curtis...
Social media can be a funny thing sometimes – not funny “ha, ha,” mind you, but more of a funny “wow, these two things couldn’t be more different” sort of way. On Tuesday, UTA and Salt Lake City celebrated...
The 2022 Legislative session was a banner year for transit funding in Utah, with the legislature allocating $117.3 Million towards transit, up from the $15.7 Million it invested in 2021 and 2020, respectively…and the $0 it invested from 2017...
Our Sumer 2022 Newsletter is here! We talk about what UTRU has done over the past few months, introduce you to the UTRU board, discuss why policymakers struggle to understand transit and the first steps towards “Free Fare Forever”...
UTRU is excited to hear that UTA will officially open the long-awaited Vineyard FrontRunner station on August 8 with an opening ceremony on Friday, August 12th at 10 AM. The Vineyard stop represents a forward-thinking transit policy for the...