“By not offering the full weekend and later evening service schedule they are making it harder for people to connect and all but forcing them to drive their commute instead of riding public transit. “I believe that UTA is truly limiting mine and other’s ability to travel at a cost effective and environmentally friendly way,” wrote Jenen. Most major bus routes run reduced weekend schedules, with many not running on Sundays. those that do run later run hourly until 10 or 11 p.m. While most weekday bus routes stop running after 7 p.m. The last TRAX trains leave downtown Salt Lake City around 11:30 p.m. Frontrunner trains do not operate on Sundays. while the final southbound train departs a bit later at 12:06 a.m. On the Saturdays the final train northbound train departs Salt Lake Central at 11:58 p.m. “They are limiting their customer’s and the public’s use of their services by not offering a full weekend and later evening service,” wrote Jenen at .Ĭurrently the last weekday north and south Frontrunner trains depart from Salt Lake Central station at 11:25 p.m. Jenen has launched an online petition at that she will deliver to the UTA Board of Trustees asking for expanded services. Anything but this.Brigham Young University student, Alexis Jenen, wants the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) to offer the full weekday schedule on the weekends, Sunday Frontrunner service and provide more late night buses and trains. Ditch the freakin’ terrible compass rose. Make the FrontRunner follow a completely straight path from end to end – a compositional vertical axis for the rest of the map. Take a diagrammatic approach and expand the downtown area (so we can read the station names!) while compressing the outlying ones.
Abandon the pseudo-geographical layout that actually has no consistent scale. Seriously, who at the UTA actually approves this? Who actually says, “Wow! That looks great! Let’s print some signs and put it on the website!” This map needs to be crumpled up, thrown away and never used as a template again. Meanwhile, the new “S Line” streetcar, which is only 2.1 miles long, stretches luxuriously off to the right side of the map, way larger in scale than it should ever be.Īnd your brand-new, awesome streetcar gets to be the “gray” line? How exciting. Downtown is a disgrace, with eight stations crammed into the tiniest of spaces: so small that most of those stations have to have a smaller station dot to compensate. The labelling of stations remains an awful, convoluted mess and the giant callout boxes at transfer stations are still completely unnecessary. Tiny baby steps have been taken by removing the street addresses of the stations, but almost all the previous faults are still present. When I last reviewed Salt Lake City’s rail transit map back in April, word reached me via Twitter that the UTA’s graphic designers were hard at work on a new map slated for a December release.Īnd here we are: hardly worth the wait, really. Temple Bridge/Guadalupe receive a callout box when it also is a transfer station involving TRAX, FrontRunner, and local bus service? Call me old fashioned, but shouldn’t the lines below the station names roughly correspond to the length of the word? And why doesn’t N.
Removing addresses from the map did wonders for improving legibility. I must say I am not overly impressed with UTA’s revision of their rail map-which will begin to be posted in trains once UTA’s first streetcar, the S Line, opens. Submitted by the eagle-eyed Garrett Smith, who says:
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