Nearly 50 years since the last neighborhood streetcars rumbled though Salt Lake City, the S-Line marks the return of that transit option to the city. The first phase of the project eschews the street for a reclaimed rail corridor with green space and trails.
With a blast of celebratory fireworks and the sounding of a train bell, officials from the Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake and South Salt Lake City and the U.S. Dept. of Transportation launched the newest addition to the transit mix in the Salt Lake Valley with the Dec. 5 opening the S-Line streetcar. Salt Lake now joins other cities in the region like Portland, Seattle and Los Angles in reintroducing the streetcar as an option to commuters in the city’s urban core.