WFRC staff outline 2025 transportation bills and major appropriations, including $300 million downtown Salt Lake allocation

WFRC government affairs director Miranda Jones Cox told the Wasatch Front Regional Council on March 27 that this year’s state legislature passed a set of transportation bills and appropriations that will affect regional projects and planning.

Miranda Jones Cox summarized the session’s transportation funding, saying the legislature approved a number of notable appropriations including $20,000,000 ongoing for corridor preservation, a $70,000,000 transportation bond, and a $300,000,000 allocation tied to a downtown Salt Lake project on Third West that she described as “such a large amount for a single project.” She said the session also included “approximately over a hundred million dollars in specific local transportation projects” across Salt Lake County and other counties.

Why it matters: these appropriations and bill changes determine which projects qualify for state support and how regional planning organizations and local governments will coordinate funding and design work.

Major bills and provisions

- SB 195 (transportation…