After nearly four years of construction, the Utah Transit Authority and Salt Lake City have officially opened the six-mile light rail line linking Salt Lake City International Airport to the existing 20 miles of light rail and wider mass transit system along the Wasatch Front.
The $209-million project was brought in under budget and two months ahead of schedule by the joint venture team of Stacy and Witbeck and Kiewit Western. The project included the light rail tracks to the airport and associated stations and signaling, as well as the demolition, relocation and reconstruction on the North Temple viaduct over the Union Pacific rail yard. The viaduct includes a light rail station (the North Temple Bridge-Guadalupe station), which provides access to UTA’s Front Runner commuter rail on a platform below.