Alternative bus routes?ĭuring the community council meeting, Avenues residents Donna Dinsdale, Carol Fudyma and Laurie Holland represented neighborhood members opposed to the new bus routes. and E Street.īuses will run every 15 minutes, compared to the current routes which run anywhere from every 15 minutes to every 30 to 60 minutes.

Major destinations along the new Avenues routes include LDS Hospital and the Smith’s on the corner of 6th Ave. UTA also is introducing Route 1, which will connect downtown Salt Lake City and the University of Utah via South Temple Street. The new plans will replace Route 6 (which includes South Temple, N Street and 6th Ave.) with Route 209: service to downtown with north/south connections. (Utah Transit Authority) UTA's new bus routes go into effect in August, but some Avenues residents have concerns about what an increase of buses will do to their neighborhood. Opponents of the new bus routes say they’re not against public transportation and that their concerns are safety and noise. And that new routes would decrease housing values and buses will bring “homeless inhabitants” to the area. It listed concerns one might expect, such as busier streets and increased noise. “New bus route will affect you!” it read. It came in the wake of controversy surrounding a flyer dispersed by a group of Avenues residents opposed to the bus route changes. The meeting drew more than 50 people in person and more than 50 people via Zoom.

“Having a 15-minute service on routes 1 and 209 helps make that more possible for the broadest number of residents.” “We want to emphasize that there are many other demands, or requests for services, to other parts of Salt Lake City that we’ve received from residents of the Avenues,” he said. We do more of a mass approach to the and the counties that we serve,” she said.Īnd Eric Callison, manager of service planning for UTA, said the more frequent Avenues routes will allow people to reach their destinations in a timely manner. Nichol Bourdeaux, UTA’s vice president of external relations, said more than 100 routes will change in August, across communities from Pleasant View to Santaquin.

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