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Active transportation bills: SB195 mobility-review rules for Salt Lake City, HB290 defines bike-lane violations
Summary
Committee members reviewed 2025 legislative outcomes affecting active-transportation planning: SB195 added a UDOT mobility-plan review requirement for Salt Lake City's highway-reduction projects with limited exceptions; HB290 created a moving violation and statutory definition for driving in designated bike lanes.
Miranda Jones Cox of the Wasatch Front Regional Council briefed the Active Transportation Committee on several bills from the 2025 Utah legislative session that affect active transportation and local planning.
Jones Cox said Senate Bill 195, a transportation omnibus bill, included a provision that affects Salt Lake City's ability to proceed with certain "highway reduction strategy" projects without a mobility-plan review by the Utah Department of Transportation. The provision defines highway-reduction strategies to include actions that permanently decrease motor-vehicle capacity or narrow lanes. Under the final language, projects that had been advertised on or before Feb. 25, 2025, or that…
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