SLC’s Transportation Strategy, New Local Bars, and a Fuel Spill

Salt Lake City made a new plan to heal its east-west divide and guide how we get around. Host Ali Vallarta and executive producer Emily Means explain SLC’s transportation goals and how you can weigh in on May 7. Plus, a long-awaited bar reopening, Parleys diesel fuel spill, and the Great Salt Lake’s emotional toll.

Resources and references:

• ACLU’s Bathroom Law Impact Assessment Survey
• How Salt Lake City plans to heal its ‘single-largest transportation issue’ [Salt Lake Tribune]
• How Many More Lanes Does I-15 Really Need? [City Cast Salt Lake]
• Learn more about the Connect SLC transportation plan and comment at the May 7 SLC Council Meeting
• DABS awards all remaining Utah bar licenses at February meeting [Gastronomic SLC]
• Gastronomic SLC DABS reporting 
• Restaurant in 9th and 9th gets a liquor license; damaged Garage on Beck to reopen soon [Salt Lake Tribune]
• Every Bar SLC on Instagram
• Every Bar SLC Spreadsheet
• Drinking water not impacted by fuel spill in Parley’s Creek, officials said [KSL]
• Are the Great Salt Lake scientists all right? [High Country News] 

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