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Old Posted May 19, 2016, 8:08 PM
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I agree, that is the one thing that has frustrated me. The city grew to that size in 1964, then the exodus to the burbs began and the city has a somewhat small footprint so redevelopment of even a portion of it resulted in loosing a good chunk of historic buildings.

I continue to hope that since the city is once again thriving that vacant parcels will begin to develop rather than continuing to redevelop on the same parcels over and over. For instance 4th and 4th, and the Scientology building.

I do love the video that was posted, it's amazing how vibrant Main St was at the time. I'm glad to see that it is starting to get back to that point.
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Old Posted May 19, 2016, 8:22 PM
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The biggest blow of all was losing those trolley lines.
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Old Posted May 22, 2016, 11:28 PM
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The biggest blow of all was losing those trolley lines.
You can thank GM for a lot of that as they purchased a lot of the trolly lines across the country and once they were purchased GM just tore them all out.
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Old Posted May 25, 2016, 1:33 AM
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I'm going to sound like a heretic for saying this ...

I am glad General Motors tore out all the National City Lines train lines.

Hear me out. The old routes served areas that might not make sense 50 years later. It used outdated infrastructure which would now be 100 years old. Many used unsafe center-run routes. Turning circles appear to be too tight to handle modern LRT cars.

By scrapping the old, we are able to build a modern system that is better thought out, better serve our suburbs, travel to logical urban locations, provide 21st-century safety, and can accommodate both slow-speed use downtown and high-speed use on dedicated right of way in the 'burbs.

Good riddance to the old system. I like the UTA one much better.
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Old Posted Dec 30, 2016, 3:03 AM
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I don't remember seeing this one here.

Salt Lake City 1973: Not Long After the Completion of the COB

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