Salt Lake seeks transit comment
Wednesday, five goals for the study and a timeframe were released. The study is anticipated to take 12 months and will look at everything from transit, bikes and taxi service to roads and land use issues.
The study, said planners, will be a framework for downtown transportation decisions over the next 25 years. It covers the area from North Temple to 900 South and from I-15 to 700 East.
"Over the next year, we will be crafting what will happen in the downtown area for the next 25 years and it is extremely important that we get it right," said Ron Holmes, an engineer with HNTB, a firm assisting with the study. "To live in downtown today, you can do that, but it's not as convenient as it should be."
Salt Lake City first developed a transportation master plan in 1996, but it did not specifically address the downtown business area, said Alice Steiner, a consultant for the Utah Transit Authority and member of the downtown transportation master plan management study team.
Goals of the study are:
• Make downtown transportation pedestrian-friendly, so those living downtown don't have to have a car.
• Make downtown transportation easy to use.
• Enhance transit downtown and transit connections to downtown from other regions.
• Address automobile use to limit congestion in the area.
Over the next month, public comment will be gathered to assist in fine-tuning those goals, planners said. In subsequent months, those
administering the study plan to release study data about specific modes of transportation in the downtown area.
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