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Salt Lake City’s free fare zone makes downtown transit a breeze.
Urban Living
The Utah Transit Authority was created in 1970 to provide public transportation to the state’s growing population. It took over routes and services from the former Salt Lake City Lines, which ran buses in the 1950s that were painted light blue and white, with a red belt rail.
Today, UTA operates buses and trains from Brigham City to Santaquin and out west to Grantsville. Funding is the biggest challenge to expanding public transportation, and it wasn’t until 1973 that our Legislature took some profits from liquor-store sales to initially fund the buses.
In that year, Davis and Weber County…
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