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Downtown Salt Lakers can gain more than they lose by going carless.

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Carless and Carefree In 2018, when we first moved into our condo in downtown Salt Lake City, I immediately began to wonder how soon it would be that my family could go carless. After all, my friends with children in cities like Chicago, New York and D.C. had pulled it off.

Why not us? However, with little storage space and a greater distance between our front door and the car (elevators, lobbies, a dozen parking stalls), our Subaru became a four-wheeled adventure backpack. In the summer, we’d store our camping supplies for spur-of-the-moment weekend trips.

During the winter, the car would house…

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