Service was extended to Weber and Davis counties in 1973 and to Utah County in 1985.

UTA was subsequently founded on March 3, 1970, when the cities of Sandy, Salt Lake City, and Murray voted to form a transit district. In 1969, the Utah State Legislature passed the Utah Public Transit District Act, which allowed individual communities to address transportation needs by forming local transit districts. By 1960, bus ridership was only about one third the level of war-time Salt Lake, and the average age of riders was 14. Throughout the 1950s buses became more and more unpopular, with low gas prices and subsidized construction of highways like Interstate 15. NSL had bought out and promptly decommissioned the electric trolleys operated by the Utah Light and Traction Company in Salt Lake City neighborhoods like the Avenues in the 1940s.

Ironically, among the constitutive companies of the UTA was National City Lines, famous for its alleged cannibalization of American streetcar lines on behalf of General Motors. The Utah Transit Authority traces its roots to 1953 when several bus companies united to form the organization. In 2022, the system had a ridership of 31,233,700, or about 108,900 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2022. UTA's commuter rail equipment is stored and serviced at a facility in Salt Lake City. Light rail vehicles are stored and maintained at yards at locations in South Salt Lake and Midvale. UTA is headquartered in Salt Lake City with operations and garages in locations throughout the Wasatch Front, including Ogden, Midvale and Orem. It operates fixed route buses, flex route buses, express buses, ski buses, three light rail lines in Salt Lake County ( TRAX), a streetcar line in Salt Lake City ( the S-Line), and a commuter rail train ( FrontRunner) from Ogden through Salt Lake City to Provo. The Utah Transit Authority ( UTA) is a special service district responsible for providing public transportation throughout the Wasatch Front of Utah, in the United States, which includes the metropolitan areas of Ogden, Park City, Provo, Salt Lake City and Tooele. North Temple/ North Temple Bridge/Guadalupe Transit bus, light rail, commuter rail, streetcar, bus rapid transitĨ9 active bus routes as of August 2021 Bus and TRAX train at the 2700 West Sugar Factory Road stationīox Elder, Davis, Salt Lake, Summit, Tooele, Utah, and Weber counties

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