Transit Tangents

← Transit Tangents18 Aug · 27 min

Utah's FrontRunner Closer To Federal Transit Funding

Utah's FrontRunner Closer To Federal Transit Funding18 Aug27 min

$1.2 billion doesn’t just buy track and trains. It buys time back in your day, the kind you lose when your “commuter rail” only shows up every 30 to 60 minutes and a single delay wrecks every connection. We dig into the newly awarded federal Capital Investment Grant for Utah’s FrontRunner and why it’s one of the biggest pieces of positive news for public transit in the U.S. in a long while. We start with a refresher on what FrontRunner is today: an 82-mile commuter rail corridor connecting P...