
Benjamin Wood
News Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly
Blogger at bw
Writer, biker, ukulele player, cinephile, YIMBY. Connoisseur of all things interesting. Pick my brain @bikelakecity or pitch me a story at [email protected]
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1 day ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge LIBERTY WELLS—Burying Salt Lake City's heavy rail in a train box and restoring passenger service to the historic Rio Grande Depot is estimated to cost between 3 and 5 billion dollars.
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3 days ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge Downtown Salt Lake City will shed thousands of pounds of cold steel in June, with the return of Open Streets swapping noisy, pollution-spewing car traffic for four blocks of music, art, dining and shopping on Main Street. The city announced Monday that Fridays and Saturdays in June will see Main Street closed to car traffic from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. between 400 South and South Temple.
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1 week ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge UNIVERSITY—Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Thursday that he warned his legislative colleagues a recently-passed ban on public sector collective bargaining could backfire, awakening and emboldening the same labor unions the GOP supermajority was working to diminish.
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1 week ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge Salt Lake City's newest public art installation debuted on Friday, with The Blocks arts district and Seven Canyons Trust unveiling "Hidden Waters," a series of decorative water droplets designed by local artists and placed along North Temple to mark the underground path of City Creek.
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2 weeks ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge GLENDALE—Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall joined a work crew on Wednesday morning, helping to shovel and tamp down cold patch asphalt as part of "Pothole Palooza," an annual week-long blitz of Spring road maintenance.
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New @CityWeekly: SLC Mayor kicks off spring road repair season with week-long "Pothole Palooza." #slc #utpol https://t.co/wlvCV3lkGH

New @CityWeekly: FLASHBACKS, celebrating 40 years in print. #slc #utpol 1989: "Notes from the Underground" by Ziba Marashi https://t.co/L6dWxtFSeN 1997: "Female Fastbreak" by Libby Porter https://t.co/xfFuHLj85S 2011: "Chicken Clique" by John Rasmuson https://t.co/HOpl1opJcO https://t.co/jJJDTM2w16

New @CityWeekly: U.S. Transportation Secretary says Utah is doing transit "the right way" after brief ride on Frontrunner. #utpol #slc https://t.co/tZX56IABDi