SLC’s Transportation Strategy, New Local Bars, and a Fuel Spill
Salt Lake City made a new plan to heal its east-west divide and guide how we get around. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means explain SLC’s transportation goals and how you can weigh in on May 7. Plus, a long-awaited bar reopening, Parleys diesel fuel spill, and the Great Salt Lake’s emotional toll.
Resources and references:
- ACLU’s Bathroom Law Impact Assessment Survey
- How Salt Lake City plans to heal its ‘single-largest transportation issue’ [Salt Lake Tribune]
- How Many More Lanes Does I-15 Really Need? [City Cast Salt Lake]
- Learn more about the Connect SLC transportation plan and comment at the May 7 SLC Council Meeting
- DABS awards all remaining Utah bar licenses at February meeting [Gastronomic SLC]
- Gastronomic SLC DABS reporting
- Restaurant in 9th and 9th gets a liquor license; damaged Garage on Beck to reopen soon [Salt Lake Tribune]
- Every Bar SLC on Instagram
- Every Bar SLC Spreadsheet
- Drinking water not impacted by fuel spill in Parley’s Creek, officials said [KSL]
- Are the Great Salt Lake scientists all right? [High Country News]
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