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Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Visits Salt Lake City

Filed in Trains of Thought Tagged with Construction, Grant, LaHood, Salt Lake City, Secretary of Transportation, Sugar House, Sugar House Streetcar, Sustainable Living October 28th, 2010 @ 11:01 pm

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Salt Lake City October 27, to formally announce a $26M Tiger II grant for use on the Sugar House Streetcar Project.

Environmental and preliminary engineering has already been completed on the two-mile line that will travel on a historic railroad corridor (see photo below) between the 2100 South TRAX Station and McClelland Street, near 1050 East.

LaHood told the 100 or so gathered for the formal announcement that Salt Lake City was a model for future development.

“These new transit connections are helping to revive the same neighborhoods early streetcars once helped to create,” he said.

Following the announcement, LaHood joined more than 300 UTA employees and construction workers at UTA’s Jordan River Service Center.

There, he praised the effectiveness of the stimulus package, which has helped fund more than 14,000 transportation projects across the nation.

Check out LaHood’s comments about the project on his blog – Fast Lane.

$5 Million HUD sustainable planning grant awarded in Salt Lake County

Filed in Trains of Thought Tagged with Envision Utah, EPA, Grant, HUD, Mountainland Association of Governments, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Sustainable Living, UDOT, University of Utah, Wastach Front Regional Council October 20th, 2010 @ 9:37 am

On Friday, the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $5 million grant to a consortium of public and non-profit planning organizations along the Wasatch Front. The grant is to promote sustainable planning and development in Salt Lake County.

The grant is one of 45 awarded nationwide through HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program in cooperation with the U.S. Dept. of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The agency received more than 1,000 applications from communities across the country for the highly competitive grant program.

“These grants represent our chance to fund the best ideas and approaches,” HUD Deputy Secretary Ro n Sims said at a press conference. He said that the Wasatch Front application was one of only three communities that achieved every one of the desired criteria for the award.

The partners on the grant application included the Wasatch Front Regional Council, Mountainland Association of Governments, Envision Utah, UDOT, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake City, the University of Utah and UTA.

“This grant will help us to take the region’s Vision [for sustainable communities] and make it a reality,” said Andrew Gruber, executive director of WFRC.

A majority of the funds will be used to develop a regional planning tool that will allow communities to compare alternative scenarios for proposed projects and see how different development approaches will affect the economic and environmental outcomes for that community.

Other uses for the funds will include assessing and develop sustainable housing types and transportation needs at pilot transit oriented development sites, and developing educational and policy tools to aid local communities in implementing their plans.

News links:
County, consortium get $5M
Wastach Front to benefit from $5M planning grant
KCPW Radio Coverage of the Press Conference

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