UTA lays track for 2034 Games and beyond
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- Now, 25 years after UTA first unveiled the TRAX system for public transportation on the light rail, transit in the Beehive State could get a big boost leading to the 2034 games.
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Please run Frontrunner on Sundays, it's a huge oversight for students who visit home on weekends and people going to downtown on Sunday (not to mention the people who WORK on Sunday)
Apparently they don't want to pay the conductors time and a half for Sundays...their budget needs a boost!
I heard the issue is that they only have singletrack for most of the route, which means that if they need to do maintainance they have to shut down an entire section of the line, so they don't run on Sundays to do maintainance
Yes to all the above. Also if we need additional reasons that might speak more to certain demographics (that have sway on the State Budget) includes a majority of the State Legislature. Sunday Service would also enable people to better access Temple Square and to even attend the Sunday Session of General Conference while being eco friendly.
Frontrunner is actually doing/planning the following projects: buying extra railcars and locomotives, upgrading service to 15-minute headways, running on Sundays, peak service every 7,5 minutes, buying BEMU trains (battery-electric multiple-unit) and upgrading service to 110mph, quad tracking certain sections and limited stop trains that only stop at major stations.
@@StefanWithTrains3222 Hopefully they eventually switch from BEMU to actual EMUs sometime in the future. With the Stadler factory right there it'd be nice to get Stadler KISSes. And then they can even put a like, "proudly made in Utah" sticker on it
UTA needs to support the Rio Grande plan. Let's get that built for the Olympics.
Have you written them and your elected officials?
Hopefully we can see The Rio Grande Plan adopted officiallly for SLC and the State of Utah. We need a proper Central Station for the 2034 Winter Olympics and for the long term sustainability of the region!
I want that, and I've seen a plan for a Tooele - SLC - Park City train, which at least the airport - Park City stretch would make sense for the games
@redpandaz5146 Yes, I would like to see that as well. We need better East-West transit connections. The Rio Grande Plan will help enable such an addition since it would provide a much needed high capacity Central Station for intermodal connection transfers.
Let's all be sure to write our State and Local Representatives, Leaders and relevant Committee Chairs to get this project adopted and built!
Have you written them and your elected officials?
@@FrederickJenny I personally live near Denver, so I don't know if what I say would have any stake. I do have several friends over in the SLC area tho
Rio Grande Plan please! And let's get FrontRunner to Brigham City and Payson! And we need services every 10-15 minutes across the rail network
Yes!
Have you written UTA and your elected officials?
@FrederickJenny yep! 😊 Many of them have been very positive/receptive too
Utah is a republican maga state. I wish you all luck in getting the necessary funding for modern public transportation infrastructure. You guys need electric heavy rail, but I can bet you the republican government will build monorails and then use the failure of that to attack public transportation
ONE WORD "RIO GRANDE"
Have you written UTA and your elected officials?
when i talk to most people about hosting the olympics the number one thing they get excited about is investing in transit. we have a great system right now that will be even better with the right care!
I’m not from Utah but this Rio Grande plan sounds pretty hype
Go for electrification for frontrunner. Get in contact with Caltrain, leverage their experience now while all the industrial capacity is available.
Yeah. Heck the manufacturing plant that built the trains for Caltrain, Stadler USA, is located in Utah already! Just get them onboard, finance the overhead wires and order a bunch of electric double decker trainsets for the Frontrunner. The old equipment can then possibly go to other cities across the US that are trying to start their own passenger rail services, like Raleigh.
@@drdewott9154 Not just in Utah but right there in Salt Lake City. Real easy to order some KISS units for them. Could even make them DEMU's so they could start service as soon as UTA gets them without the cost of overhead wires which could be added overtime.
@@UPRailRoad-xg8cb Maybe but Diesel trains are awful for the environment. Stadler have however been a front runner with battery trains and already have ones succesfully in service in Germany. They did propose a battery version of their Kiss trains for the MBTA in Boston recently, with 3 normal double decker coaches and one coach thats all batteries. That could be a pretty ideal setup for the Frontrunner, and also work great as a demonstrator of what Stadler can do.
@drdewott9154 The problem is practicality. They have the infrastructure to support diesel while they build the overhead wires for electrification. It doesn't make sense to transition from diesel to batteries to overhead electrification. A lot of wasted time and money. It is better to rely on the current system until the new one is ready to take over, just like what CalTrain is doing. Plus, they could electrify parts of the line as they complete them. Thus, not being entirely reliant on diesel.
@@UPRailRoad-xg8cb CalTrain proved it’s possible, and all the lessons and experience from that project should be transferable to Frontrunner if they move quickly
UTA's failure to embrace the Rio Grande Plan will haunt us into the next Olympics. NOTHING is better than that plan and we as citizens need to push it.
It will be nice to have another front runner from cedar fort to the airport along the Mountain View corridor.
I hope the front runner will run all the way into Brigham City soon
Not gonna happen until at least 2040 unfortunately, my source, UTA themselves.
@@UPRailRoad-xg8cb dang
@@EzyPup Of course, that was pre olympics. It could change but I wouldn't count on it.
This is how you do the Olympics! You don't give billionaire stadium owners more tax payer money, you use the games to meaningfully invest in the future of your city. The more transit you build, the better you can utilize land because the less you'll need giant parking lots. And that means more small businesses, more housing options, and more tax revenue to reinvest in your city. Keep it up SLC! You punch above your weight in so many ways.
I would love the front runner to run from St. George to Logan. One can only dream
I was expecting they would mention the "Rio Grande Plan"!
The transit is good if you're in and around Salt Lake, but where I am in Northern Utah Valley, it would take me 2 hours to get to SLC by bus and rail compared to a 40 minute to 1 hour drive. My university, UVU, is a 12 minute drive from where I live. It would take me 43 minutes to get there by bus.
Front runner should be converted to electric power so they can run even more trains in addition to double tracking the routes. They could easily acquire the Stadler train sets (their U.S. factory is near Salt Lake and they just built the new electric Caltrains fleet). And perhaps with a Commuter Rail extension to the airport it could be built to accommodate the light rail in a weather enclosed facility that’s future proofed for the Games.
There should be plenty of time for Brightline West to be extended from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. 🙃
Sacramento CA 100 dollars a month for passes
Congratulations on being selected for the Winter Olympics … again!
Love utah
The thing is, the games may get awarded elsewhere, because the US gov’t really wants to see if some Chinese swimmers I believe, if they were caught doping because of a state-sponsored doping program. And the IOC isn’t happy about this, saying that the US should respect WADA’s decision
Sacramento run every day all holidays
Need get more train line for easy to use it to all new stations in salt lake county
Probably cause nobody else wanted to host it 🤷
Rio Grande Plan please!
Im definitely not sticking around for 2034 then😂
Now take the next step and make ridership free all days of the years
It's basically free whenever I joyride it
a flat fare of 2 dollars or something seems reasonable as well if they cant do that
Is that really feasible on cost returns for operating costs especially if they’ll be doing a lot of capital projects to improve service and reliability?
@@TheRandCrews yes. 90% of expenses are covered by funding. Only 10% is covered by ticket sales and 3% of total budget is spent on ticket control. So essentially it would only be a 7% cost to make it free and ridership would skyrocket
Add hsr from state to salt lake so teen and elder people go use it to arrive salt lake
Has anyone heard we're in a mass extinction right now? Well, we are and if you don't know what that is, ask a dinosaur.
Utah is unfortunately a maga state so we’ll just have to see if the maga Karens will call public transportation infrastructure “gommunist socialist vuvuzela”
@f-86zoomer37 yet somehow built the best transit system in the US for a small region over the last 30 years in a Red rural state... Maybe not all Republicans are anti-transit.
The US isn't going to make it to the year the Olympics are going to be held...
sure buddy, doomer mentality