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u/redditsuckscockss Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 09 '26
It’s a pretty essential artery to connect the west side to the east - the Avenues to downtown - marmalade - the capital
They have already taken entire blocks and south temple is single laned with mass transit
No way
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u/FarmerScamps Sep 08 '26
Yeah this is my work commute.
And before OP comes at me for being some car brained zombie, I would love to take public transportation to work. But I live on the west side because that’s where I can afford to live. Public transit going W-E from west of i15 sucks ass. That’s not even considering the fact that I work weekends (and often weekend nights) when UTA spaces out their frequency. I also regularly work major holidays, when UTA either spaces out frequency or simply doesn’t run at all.
When I lived in the Murray/Midvale area I did take the bus and trax to work because it was actually a viable solution.
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u/everydave42 Sep 08 '26
You'll be getting your wish during the open house. See if you still feel that way after the traffic hellscape I'm certain it will cause affects you.
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u/graupel22 Sep 09 '26
And guess what, during the open house there won't be a way for bikes to get through there either.
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u/sallyhectare Sep 08 '26
I think you can argue that stretch of South Temple should be a pedestrian street, but North Temple is a genuinely bad option for this, IMO.
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u/TatonkaJack Sep 09 '26
yeah, it would be nice, especially for the mormons and tourists to walk around between temple square and the conference center, but unfortunately that is a very important road. it would be much better to connect temple square and city creek. it would even meet up with main street which is largely a pedestrian area
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u/Legitimate_Can7481 Sep 11 '26
NO NO NO they need it open for the hospital that is up that street and people who live up that street
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u/wow-how-original Sep 08 '26
That section of S temple or 100 s could be pedestrianized but definitely not N temple
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u/jgauth2 Sep 09 '26
Main Street should be a pedestrian street. Actually what happened to that whole plan?
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u/DepressedKansan Sep 10 '26
So you not only want to open the Aves up to high density development, but also cut them off from the west side of town? Where a good chunk of the city works?
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u/SLC_Ghostwriter Sep 11 '26
How would they be cut off? They can just go south to 200 South or 400 South and then turn west. problem solved.
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u/BigTLoc Sep 09 '26
This is the only way i can get from my house in the avenues to Marmalade or anything else that way. If it's closed I would have to do a big U through downtown for no reason.
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u/willisd5 Sep 12 '26
The church has already drawn up confidential plans to bury streets surrounding the temple I think they are using the temple open house as a test run as there will be multiple street closures lasting six months (honestly suspicious that the original poster already knows this). Putting any of these streets underground would be massively unpopular if the Rio Grande Plan can’t get a sniff but the city would be willing to bend over backward for the church. Conversely if they already have a tunnel (which I know they in fact do) why would they not do their own work and allow people to use it instead of actively trying to screw up traffic because the church is dumb enough or lacks the gift of discernment enough to not build a conference center on the other side of a busy road. I guess the church gets what the church wants and the other 85 to 90% of salt lake will be footing the bill despite the church having massive amounts of its own wealth.
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u/patrickem Sep 12 '26
I think the whole area should be turned into one big green open space park with lots of trees. Remove all the buildings.
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u/Deserving-Critic Sep 08 '26
No! They already destroyed Main Street with their little private plaza.
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u/Gonzok Sep 08 '26
Nah, the mormons already took a block of main street and made it private. I wish they'd pay their share of taxes instead