Salt Lake City embraces light rail, expansion January 14th, 2007
The Arizona Republic, Jan. 14, 2007
SALT LAKE CITY – When light rail opened here seven years ago, people lined up around the block. From the first day, the trains carried more people than were forecast for 2025.
Seats are still scarce as the boxlike trains thread through downtown. On a bitter cold day last month, they filled up with office workers heading north and construction workers and retail clerks going south. Lines of trains waited for Utah Jazz fans. Families flocked back from a downtown mall with armfuls of gifts.
Residents of the Salt Lake area have embraced light rail to a degree that few imagined. Its popularity would seem a harbinger of crowds to come when the Valley’s trains begin to roll in late 2008. The Salt Lake and Phoenix areas are similar, as both lie in the mountain West and are car-dependent…
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