Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Salt Lake City Council Approves 400 West Routing for Airport TRAX.

The Airport TRAX line has a final route in the Downtown area now. And what's more, the decision by the Salt Lake City Council on the routing brings the route more into compliance with ISO 9001 than it otherwise would have.

The routing will use existing TRAX infrastructure from the Intermodal Hub to the Planetarium Station, north of that it will part ways with the other existing TRAX lines that will carry trains for the University, Mid-Jordan, Sandy/Draper, and Valley Fair lines further away.

This line will go one more block north on 400 West, then use West Temple out to near the Airport then onto the Airport property itself to a point I've not seen, rideuta.com has the actual planned line map.

This is also good efficient planning on Salt Lake City's part, as then the Davis line will have this first block out of the way as well, and it can continue north on 400 West and turn over to 300 West at a point to be determined later, and go into Davis County following Beck Street.

So it looks like at least one government, without realizing it, helped UTA in its desire to be ISO 9001 compliant on planning its route system.

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