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Utah House swerves on bill seizing Salt Lake City's authority over local streets.
A tenuous compromise over traffic management in Salt Lake City appeared to go up in smoke on Tuesday, with the Utah House voting to approve a bill that would halt all street safety projects in the state capital, including work on new protected cycling paths that is scheduled to break ground in the coming weeks.
A man uses a recently-upgraded crosswalk on State Street near the Utah Capitol on Jan. 7, 2025. A tenuous compromise over traffic management in Salt Lake City appeared to go up in smoke on Tuesday, with the Utah House voting to approve a bill that would halt all street safety projects in the state capital, including work on new protected cycling paths that is scheduled to break ground in the coming weeks.
Representatives voted 60-14, largely along party lines, for SB195, after first amending the bill to undo the progress of a 5th Substitute version that was adopted in committee in response to…
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