The 2023 legislative session was a big one for safe streets and active transportation. Lawmakers budgeted $45 million for the buildout of a statewide trails network, FrontRunner got a $200 million injection for a new Draper station and more sections of double-track, and the state is putting more attention toward those tricky areas where sidewalks, bike lanes, trails and passenger rail get tied up around freight trains. 

Road diets are one of the hardest things for drivers to wrap their heads around. If traffic is bad with four lanes, it has to be even worse with three lanes, right?

Wrong. It’ll be better for everyone, driver’s included. Here’s why

Our campaign to promote safe speeds on neighborhood streets was a success! But that’s not all we accomplished together in 2022. Check out our rundown of what we achieved together this year.

Salt Lake City is planning to reconstruct 2100 South through the heart of Sugar House. Option 1 would be more of the same. Option 2 would create a Main Street for our second downtown.

AARP announced today that Sweet Streets - Salt Lake City is one of 244 grantees for Community Challenge funds that will bring pedestrian wayfinding to Salt Lake City.

Sweet Streets is calling on the Salt Lake City Council and Transportation Division to enact a 20 mph limit on neighborhood streets with timely emphasis on routes connecting with schools and neighborhood byways.

In 2020, Salt Lake City resident Bryant Heath made headlines after he ran every street in Utah’s capital city. Among his takeaways from the adventures: Speeds in neighborhoods are too high and need to come down.

We’re asking the Salt Lake City Council to allocate $3 million per year to help fund Livable Streets in two neighborhoods every year, citywide.