![]() ![]() ![]() Library Arch Main Entrance - located midblock on 400 South between 200 East and 300 East: This is the main Festival entrance, and it is closest to the TRAX line and underground parking.The Box Office Entrances to the Utah Arts Festival open during the three festival days: Plan Your Festival Festival Box Offices & Entrances Many attribute the Provo/Orem BRT’s popularity to its free fare, made possible by a three-year federal grant.Looking for a premium festival experience?īecome a Friend with Benefits (and get your Friends Credentials as part of your donation), please check out the details and Friends levels on our Friends with Benefits donation page. Plans call for 13 stations, 1.8 miles of exclusive bus lanes and a transit center on the university campus.Ī similar bus rapid transit route in Provo and Orem - called the Utah Valley Express that serves Utah Valley and Brigham Young universities - now carries about as many passengers on a typical day at the Green Line TRAX trains. The most expensive project in the five-year plan - at $91.9 million - is a new 5.3-mile bus rapid transit line from downtown Ogden to Weber State University and McKay Dee Hospital. That saves about $50 million from an initial design that had called for an elevated track that would have delivered trains inside terminal facilities at the airport. The new station will be at ground level adjacent to the new terminal. While the construction of the track extension proceeds, TRAX passengers will be shuttled by bus from the current end of the line to the new terminal. UTA plans to extend the TRAX line to the new terminal - but must wait for it to open so that old terminals blocking the way can be demolished. In less than a year the Salt Lake City Department of Airports will open the first phase of the new Salt Lake International Airport. (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) The new tower and concourse is pictured Monday, Sept. ![]() The new TRAX station at the airport is needed because Salt Lake City is spending $3.6 billion to essentially build an entirely new airport, with the first phase scheduled to open about a year from now. The plan envisions the bulk of the money for that new garage facility - $40.9 million - to be spent in 2020, with completion scheduled in 2022. It would replace some old garages and not only expand capacity but allow the agency to buy and maintain more electric and compressed natural gas buses - in addition to its standard diesel fleet. Part of that effort is the $48.6 million in the plan for ongoing construction of a new facility behind UTA’s headquarters in downtown Salt Lake City. UTA Board Chairman Carlton Christensen earlier this year told the bonding commission, “We're at the capacity of our current bus facilities … so if we add service - which we've made a commitment for, and are going through the process to determine that level - we actually need some facilities to house those buses.” Payment on that debt is UTA’s single largest expenditure each year, costing $119.6 million this year compared to the $102.1 million that UTA is spending on bus operations. That borrowing would be on top of the $2.1 billion in debt the agency has amassed essentially as a mortgage to accelerate building its TRAX and FrontRunner rail systems. ![]() The plan counts on using $70.9 million in money borrowed by issuing bonds - if the State Bonding Commission approves, a requirement recently imposed by the Legislature amid concern over UTA’s considerable debt. ![]()
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