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UDOT presents mobility and environmental analysis of Salt Lake City highway-reduction projects; city to present mobility plan next month
Summary
The Utah Department of Transportation presented a mobility and environmental analysis of lane-reduction projects in Salt Lake City, finding mostly minimal cumulative mobility impacts across a large study area but mixed, localized effects and stakeholder concerns about construction and access.
Carlos Pereira of the Utah Department of Transportation summarized an analysis required by Senate Bill 195 that assessed mobility and environmental impacts of Salt Lake City’s completed and proposed highway-reduction strategies (HRS). Pereira said the study draws on large datasets — traffic-signal detection, continuous counters and private-sector trip data — and used travel-demand models plus micro-simulations to isolate HRS impacts from other drivers such as COVID-era travel changes and construction.
UDOT said the study covered a study area bounded roughly by 2100 South on the south, Interstate 15 on the west, Foothill Boulevard on the east and North…
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