page_title: Transportation in Salt Lake City
section_title: Streetcar
hierarchical_section_title: Transportation in Salt Lake City / Public Transit / Streetcar
caption_attribution_description: English: Nonstop flights from Salt Lake City outside of the contiguous United States.
context_page_description: Transportation in Salt Lake City consists of a wide network of roads, an extensive bus system, a light rail system, and a commuter rail line. Although Salt Lake City, Utah is a traditionally car-oriented city, the rapidly growing public transit system has a high number of riders for a city of its size, and public transit is widely supported by its residents and businesses.
  Nearly all public transit in the city is operated by the Utah Transit Authority. In addition to operating the bus system, it also operates the TRAX light rail system, which contains three lines, the first of which runs from downtown south to Draper, the second runs from University of Utah southwest to South Jordan, and the third from the Salt Lake City International Airport east through downtown and then southwest to West Valley City. A commuter rail line, called the FrontRunner, runs north through Davis County to Ogden in central Weber County and south to Provo in central Utah County. UTA also operates a streetcar line that connects the Sugar House neighborhood with the TRAX system in South Salt Lake.
context_section_description: For several years city officials have been studying the idea of building a modern streetcar line, a lower-speed and lower-capacity type of rail system than the TRAX light rail, and similar to the Portland Streetcar and Seattle's South Lake Union Streetcar, both of which have been visited and studied by Salt Lake officials in connection with this proposal. The S Line (formerly known as Sugar House Streetcar) began service in December 2013. The S Line connects the Central Pointe TRAX station in South Salt Lake with the Sugar House business district, running along a two-mile (3.2 km) rail right-of-way at about 2300 South. This developed from an earlier proposal for a heritage streetcar line. The estimated cost was $40 million to $50 million, but officials predicted that the line will generate much new property development in the areas through which it would run and would raise the value of existing development. The city of Salt Lake providing $2.5 million (equivalent to $2.92 million in 2018) and requested money from the federal government to have the line completed by 2012.
caption: Nonstop routes from Salt Lake City to destinations outside of the contiguous United States in 2016
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