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The Utah Department of Transportation is doing a wonderful job applying UDOT safety standards to the roads UDOT builds, according to an internal review by UDOT employees.
The Utah Transit Authority could run all the buses, trains and rideshare vehicles that money can buy, but it would hardly matter if passengers are dropped in the middle of nowhere and nothing.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Tuesday that Salt Lakers are living in "the dumbest timeline" after the mayor and City Council circumvented a new ban on Pride and other pro-diversity flags by adopting those designs as official SLC banners.
If you think Salt Lake City is all temples and tabernacles, honey, you've only seen the surface. Beneath that squeaky-clean, postcard-perfect skyline is a thriving, glitter-dusted, rainbow-waving queer community that knows how to turn up, show up, and shake things up.
Traffic safety and road maintenance remained major topics of discussion during Tuesday’s Salt Lake City Council meeting, which was primarily dedicated to discussion of the annual budget. Several residents provided comments on the more than $500 million in proposed allocations for city services.
A long-in-the works project to extend the 300 West bikeway north into downtown will fall one tantalizing block short of Pioneer Park and the decades-old protected cycling lanes on 300 South, Salt Lake City's streets division confirmed Wednesday.
The Salt Lake City Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution declaring June to be Pride Month. The Council also continued its work on the city budget, hearing public comment on funding proposals for green space, street improvements and public works.
On April 26, my daughter and I attended Encircle's Only Love Gala at the Adobe Lehi Campus, a night that shimmered with warmth, compassion and a unifying theme—Welcome Home.
So much of what surrounds me these days—smartphones, social media, cars, streaming services, working from home—seems almost designed to push me into a solitary existence.
Natalie Gochner has seen firsthand the effect of multi-modal streets in Salt Lake City, she said Friday. She's used the buffered bike lanes added to Main Street through a road diet to ride to events at the Delta Center, and she has watched the transformation of communities along 900 South after construction of the 9-Line Trail.
The Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to formally adopt three variant designs of the city's flag, acting on a request by Mayor Erin Mendenhall to exploit a loophole in HB77, which otherwise bans the flying of Pride and other pro-diversity banners from government buildings.
On April 20, Dragonfly Wellness hosted a 420 Market at its dispensary in downtown Salt Lake City, in conjunction with the Utah Patients Coalition (UPC).