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TRAX planners looking toward Salt Lake downtown loops

Connections: Lines would make the area navigable

Even before voters decide whether they want to build four more light-rail spurs from the suburbs to Salt Lake City, transit planners are thinking about what to build next: inner-city lines to help people get around downtown.

Salt Lake City and Utah Transit Authority officials are discussing building two miles of new tracks that would form a loop with existing TRAX routes.

One option connects the University of Utah line to 600 West and extends TRAX from the Delta Center to 700 South. A second option links Main Street to The Gateway at 400 West with a line along 200 South – and adds another line along 200 West to join downtown with 700 South.

The segments would not be built until after 2015 – when new TRAX lines to Draper, West Valley City, West Jordan-South Jordan and Salt Lake City International Airport could be finished.

By Heather May
The Salt Lake Tribune

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4229147

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New Mexico weighs routes for new commuter railroad tracks

By Julie Ann Grimm | The New Mexican

The public weighed in Wednesday night on four alternatives that transportation planners are considering for new commuter train tracks south of Santa Fe.

The new tracks are needed to get the Rail Runner Express commuter trains between Albuquerque and Santa Fe in a way that is competitive with interstate travel times, officials say. They’re also critical for the project because existing tracks go too far east and aren’t up to standards for high-speed travel, engineers report.

Many who attended the public meeting on the Albuquerque-to-Santa Fe phase of the project were anxious to find out where the train will stop as it approaches Santa Fe.

Full Story: http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48274.html

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