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Oh how I'd kill to go to the Rio Grande Depot! Especially when there's trains there again.

Life before Salt Lake Central and soon life AFTER Salt Lake Central

Edward Abbey suggested banning cars from National Parks. Run shuttles, encourage bikes, pedestrians, even horses.

I think it would be better to reinvigorate Salt Lake City's industry, which would give the rail yard purpose again. Residential buildings and retail businesses are nice to have, but there needs to be good balance between residential, commercial, and industrial developments.

Thanks!

You should see the 5 garbage bombardier cars UTA wasted $1M on. These were made in 1997, and are considered past useful life. In addition to $200,000 each, they will still have to be refurbished on top of the purchase price. UTA efficiency at it's best. They are in horrid dirty condition. Now if UTA had only paid $10k to $20 each, then it costs $200K AFTER refurbishing them, that might be a different story. This reminds me of a teenager visiting a used car dealer to get their first car...completely overpaid for garbage.

12" of limestone and 4" asphalt. One big parking lot.

Hey, is there a place you can sign support for the Rip Grande Plan online? I couldn’t find any on the website.

I’d like the plan better if it resolved issues at 1700S.

Lets full send it! Can we get some pressure on west valley extending trax down 35th south? I never see them use the rapid bus section of the road. I would really like being able to walk to a trax station.

I have never seen trains in that 'yard', I have only seen trains moving through it. Its time for a change in Utah, its time for the Rio Grande Plan!

Maybe people should just be better drivers and pay attention

Its nice to see and kinda understand how valuable trains are to a big city. I hope they can go forward with the plans to make Utah a shining example for years to come!

Get a decent mic. It sounds like you're using a $10 mic.

The Rio Grande Plan is the most logical for grade-separating downtown SLC and the rails. It will truly transform downtown and help us level up as a city. A nice dense walkable neighborhood next to the Grande Central of the West is a recipe for an amazing future.

grade separations aren't always the answer, but here they are the answer!

Too much concrete. Typical of US.

I support what you suggest, but your chair lift argument is completely wrong. Amtrak only has less than 200 of those lifts, at max 1 per station. What you are proposing is at least 2-3 gap fillers per consist, ideally 1 per car. That's way way more equipment to maintain.

There won’t be an olympics in 2034

That's really snteresting project, I hope it will succeed

Not Just Bikes channel has an alarming video on self driving cars. We will essentially be held to ransom by giant corporations dictating to cities on providing suitable infrastructure for AVs. He paints a pretty nightmarish scenario.

Listening to this as my Tesla is driving itself. 😎

I don't know where you get your information from but it isn't correct. The largest cost to transportation is fuel, followed by capital acquisition and maintenance, then labor. However, Labor is the ONLY one of these expenses that ADDS value to the system, as opposed to just consuming it. Freight trains should not be fully 100% automated. The risks are simply too high. Removing the train operators is never going to be a viable option for major use, with some exceptions like small low speed closed systems, or areas like Australia where its in the middle of nowhere or in a inhospitable environment like underwater or in a desert, in which case there are still operators, but they work remotely. In a busy complex system, a train breaking down and there is no one to fix it is a real problem and it happens all the time. The delays quickly overcome any benefit from an autonomous crew. I see passenger trains that are close autonomy, but only in really controlled environments. The biggest threat is of course at grade crossings. But also we really should be thinking about hackers. The rail industry as whole is completely unprepared to deal with cyber attacks.

The only arguments I heard in this video where AVs were positive were that we have a status quo with things like parking requirements and land use(a bad one), and AVs would help minimize the impact of the status quo.

So funny to see the memes I made appearing on your awesome channel!

Question: why do amtrak and UTA need to have separate trackage? Couldn't they share a line in each direction? Big supporter of RGP ofc, just curious.

I so much appreciate your topics! How I wished as a trained urban planner to be able to listen and talk to a transportation planner in Utah. I appreciate your topics of the gondola and other alternatives I ride the FrontRunner about every day unless there are heavy delays. I really enjoy riding the train and see how used the train is getting as time goes by.

Autonomous cars replacing feeder busses could be good less waiting

The motorcycle exhaust setting off a car alarm in the background at 9 min is some what poetic, for the wrong reasons.

I believe in autonomous vehicles inasmuch as their promised benefits can come to fruition. That is: 1. We can establish battery recycling programs to keep things sustainable. 2. The economics actually do work out and capitalism doesn't ruin it for disadvantaged groups like it tends to do. 3. They are safer than human drivers. People would argue that we should get rid of our car dependent infrastructure. I agree, but that is a huge battle. We have to accept that we live in the built environment that we have. For now, it would make me happy enough if suburban dwellers got rid of their cars and relied on robo-taxis. Robo-taxis are a stepping stone to shrinking parking lots and shrinking roads, and getting us to that critical mass in which more people don't own cars, than those that do.

Good nuanced take. Brave to post to the Internet where nuance is dead

If I had control of the legislature and transportation funding. I would sink a ton of money investing in rail to Cedar City and Moab. And going crazy with intercity bus routes between to connect National, State, and rural towns. I think if buses/shuttles/taxis were autonomous it would definitely help with capacity. Out of all the options explored I really do like the idea that you suggest near the end regarding park transit. Surely has to be easier than the city testing Waymo and other autonomous companies are aiming for right?

Autonomous Trains ✅ Autonomous Cars ❌

We got time travelers it literally just said 2024 and then 2034 or something like I’m scared now

Time is ticking by, we need to get this amazing project moving!

love the Interstellar music

You know I never actually watched this video, it was before I got involved with the plan but a lot of what you said here still holds true till today, almost two years later. We are still working hard to get our state and local leaders on board. We continue to lead out as citizens making the changes we want to see in our city. We listen to all ideas and have public events. Now to just get more people speaking up in this general session in 2025 and I think we will be well on our way!

In case you wondering...The train speed in Cutler Canyon from Wheelon to Cache Junction is 12 mph because of the falling rocks and rockslides, and not the curves as you say. Trains have to go slow enough to be able to stop in time to not hit them. In other canyons, there are "slide fences" that consist of cables that will break when hit by the falling rocks, and they turn the wayside signals red, which stops the trains well before the slide. But the cliff walls are so steep in this location that there is no room for a slide fence. Consequently, increasing train speed will be very difficult and expensive, and is really why it hasn't happened yet.

Let me get this straight.... The goal of making this faster is to get people out of private vehicles and choose government run transit instead? No thanks.

Great video, it seems we've gone backwards in the state as far as mass transit. 100 years ago my grandfather would hop on the old Utah Idaho central that ran right in front of his house and ride it to 20 miles south to Brigham City every to day to attend high school.

The level of detail you put into these videos is outstanding, thanks as always for the great work. It's encouraging to see good enthusiasm for rail in Utah, let's hope to see some good transit options!

Colossal waste of money.

Logan to Provo, is not state wide.

If you can request to stop in cache junction with an app then why can’t we request to stop in Deweyville with an app. Lots of us tremonton people have to work in Ogden and the gas prices are killing us. Also Utah needs to end free fair for clean air because then trains attract homeless.

If you can request to stop in cache junction with an app then why can’t we request to stop in Deweyville with an app. Lots of us tremonton people have to work in Ogden and the gas prices are killing us.

I lived in Logan for almost 7 years. And then I moved to Provo, which is the most God forsaken town in the United States. I hate living hair bye. I bought a house with cash and a car with cash. And so I guess I'm going to stay here for a little while, because housing is so expensive here. Do you know why the They're doing all this stuff with Trax because because Utah just won the bid for the 30-30 4 Olympics, so we only have 10 years to get ready and since 2022, we had the best Olympics. We made the most money of any Olympic Games ever in the world winter Olympic Games. And so we have a big rainy day. Friend and mostly what the rainy day fund is for is Construction on roads n the commuter rail and the above ground train and show people that are trying to get to Park City from Salt Lake City. It's really hard when there's a lot of snow, because you have to have chains on your tires, and then if you slide you have to turn around and come back cuz a lot of time, they'll just shut. I80 down and yeah, so when you have really hard winners, or the possibility of really hard winners to get up into the mountains, the one thing that Utah is doing and I am so excited about this cause there's only a few places in the world that have this, but what they do is it's a great big, huge Track that pushes the snow to the side of the road. But row roads, just if they're too snow 8, you just can't take trains on them, but there's one thing that you can do you can Google this if you want to, because I'm telling you the absolute truth. But they have this huge snowplow, and it has a little tiny spot in the middle That pushes the snow some of it on the right side and some of it on the left side and then they're like 20 feet of snowplow. And then the thing that is so great is they take that snow and they put it in trucks and they put it in our rivers and our lakes, so they're going to be doing that and they have to double the size of The Olympic village because there's 30 more sports Olympic sports that have been added since 2022. So if you're from Utah, I don't know if you know this or not, but I'm not trying to make you look stupid or anything, but I just am a philosopher and a researcher and I do a lot of research. You'd be surprised I'm also an inventor and so basically they have to have that train plow truck, or they're not going to be able to get app to Deer Valley or Park City or snowbird, and so the fact that it's gonna be like clear off in the boondoch. Because until you get to downtown park City, you know, there's no little towns, so to push that. Snow on the sides of the road is no big deal. Because the snow plows come in right behind them and fill up their trucks. And what a great thing to be able to put that in our lakes, right? And they're going to take most of it and put it in the Salt Lake. Which the start lake? It's doing pretty well, but it needs a lot more water and yeah, anyway, we just have to build a lot more venues for these other 30 sports winter sports. And it's going to take 10 years to do it, but driving into California and driving into New York City. They have a 6 lane freeway on each side. And the only other place and those are actually through wage cause they're toll roads, but the only other place in the United States that has 6 lanes on each side of the freeway from Ogden Utah to Provo Utah. And so we need to build about 5 or 6 more big hotels, and when the Olympic committee came to start Lake City. Did you know that we do national events every single winter and in Park City? The ski jumps there that were built for 2002 Olympics, the most dated the art ski jumps. In the entire world because you can practice year round because during the summer, they have a swimming pool at the bottom. That is a hundred feet deep, and so they're able to practice year round, and even right now we don't have enough hotels for people that want to come to utah to ski but onebut we're in the big kids. To look at how we've kept up our venues from 2002. We do national sports here all the time. And so we've kept them up completely, but the one thing they need to do at University of Utah is they've got to make that stadium bigger for the opening ceremony in the closing ceremony. So there's plenty of stuff that we have to get done before 30-30 4, but it's amazing how fast time goes by man. I am putting money in savings even though I'm on disability. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm telling him. I'm gonna be prepared to see the ice skating dancers. And to see the ski trump skiers, i'm not sure i'm going to do it, but i'm, can you try to figure it out. Have a great night sincerely kathleen williams

~98% of Utah's population is not is a position to use mass transit, or gains no benefit from it. Yet the 2% entitled 'mass transit elite' are glad to obligate the 98% to pay for their benefit. Utah really is a socialist state. Maybe you'd like to just add this to Comrade Cox's $30B proposed 2025 state budget!

Just would like to comment, with Frontrunner's upcoming double track plan, one part involves putting double track straight through the lehi s curve, and they plan to actually adjust the line as a whole there. They say there should be enough room to straighten out the curve enough to raise the speed a bit through there, but I'm not sure by how much right now.

As a frequent commuter from Brigham City to Salt Lake this would be great! Currently drive to Ogden then take the Front Runner to Salt Lake.

hey can you move the camera closer to your face for me? thanks