The Fort Douglas station access benefits from the pedestrian/bicycle Legacy Bridge over Mario Capecchi Drive and path through the Fort Douglas area. While the Medical Center station is farther, the route to the station is flatter and, in some ways, easier on a bicycle. The Fort Douglas station and the University Medical Center station are more accessible from the eastern end of Research Park via Connor Road and Fort Douglas. This station has a major barrier in its lack of a sidewalk on the east side of Foothill Drive and marked pedestrian crossing of Mario Capecchi Drive. The South Campus station is accessible from the west end of the park via Foothill Drive. While there is not a TRAX station in Research Park, the park lies just to the south of three TRAX Red Line stations which may be the most convenient depending on your origin/destination. The Red Line also provides a connection to transfer to other TRAX lines reaching nearly all corners of Salt Lake Valley. The TRAX Red Line provides a direct connection to central Salt Lake City, downtown Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, central valley communities of Murray and Midvale, and to the southwest part of the valley to West Jordan, South Jordan, and Daybreak. It’s still perfectly usable, but not quite as good as it could be.TRAX is UTA’s light rail service. Our final word: Has all the elements of a fine strip map, but somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts. Adding “Commuter Rail” underneath the FrontRunner label solves that problem – maybe it needs to also be “S-Line Streetcar”? I’d try to avoid adding a legend to a simple strip map like this as it just increases the amount of information that needs to be parsed by a reader. The “S-Line” and “FrontRunner” are a bit more problematic as they’re not explained quite as conveniently. It’s explained at the top of the map that this light rail line is the “Green Line”, so I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume that the “Blue Line” and “Red Line” – which also share a similar icon – are also light rail. I think the icons to the left of the line are generally fine and easily understood. Some quick fixes: move all the labels to the left a bit (to match the gap to the icons on the left of the route line), track all the letters out a bit for readability and increase the font size as much as possible. At first glance, it comes across looking more like Microsoft’s Calibri, which is almost never the desired result. While the ski bus doesnt serve the Salt Lake City Airport directly, the UTA TRAX light rail can take you straight from the airport to a nearby ski-bus stop. While it’s a fine typeface that is designed to be used for wayfinding purposes, I find its use here a bit flat and underwhelming. Part of it is the typeface, which I believe is Hoefler&Co.’s Whitney. This strip map does the job, but still somehow feels a bit loose and incomplete compared to the best examples from around the world – Berlin’s being a prime example. UTA will be adjusting its FrontRunner schedule, all TRAX schedules and nearly. Thanks for the photo, Mike! It’s good to see that UTA is moving in the right direction when it comes to passenger information – particularly at the airport, which may be people’s first introduction to the city’s light rail system. Public Transportation: UTA Bus Route 850 stops in front of the village. On the other hand, the one really helpful thing that this line map does include is mentioning that the Green Line does go downtown, which is probably the most sought after piece of information for people arriving at the airport and looking to ride the train downtown. Another big complaint is that UTA continues to leave off any information about bus services, which would be helpful in encouraging riders to use connecting buses. First off, it might not be obvious to riders new to the system that the icons represent transfer points to other UTA rail services, so a legend might be helpful. However, I feel the map is lacking somewhat. I do feel that this kind of map is useful in this context. The Utah Transit Authority board is taking a big step toward planning how, when and where to expand its TRAX and streetcar systems even though /21/uta-has-been-promising/'>it had promised in. While these have existed on board UTA’s TRAX light rail and FrontRunner commuter rail trains for a while, this is the first time they have used this kind of map at a station. One interesting new thing for UTA at the station is a line map. The construction of the new terminal at Salt Lake City International Airport necessitated constructing a new light rail station, which opened today.
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