Benjamin Wood

3 weeks ago | cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood

Editor's note: The following article was originally published as part of City Weekly's 2025 City Guide, out now in print and available online. There's a simple trick to driving in Salt Lake City that, once mastered, means never having to hunt for parking ever again: Park near a train stop. No really, that's it. Utah's capital city is served by three high-frequency Trax light rail lines (soon to be four), plus the regional Frontrunner Train and the S-Line Streetcar through Sugar House.

1 month ago | cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood

click to enlarge AVENUES—A long-in-the works project to extend the 300 West bikeway north into downtown will fall one tantalizing block short of Pioneer Park and the decades-old protected cycling lanes on 300 South, Salt Lake City's streets division confirmed Wednesday.

1 month ago | cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood

Even the Roman emperors, at the height of their power and excess, couldn't ride a bike to a Weezer concert. Salt Lakers can. It's certainly flawed—ludicrous even—to equate ancient Rome with last weekend's Kilby Block Party. Caesar and his successors had chariots and great ships to traverse the known world, flanked by legionaries and roving courts of indentured jesters, cooks and artisans.

1 month ago | cityweekly.net | Zach Abend |Arica Roberts |Benjamin Wood

I don't know about you,but I'm ready for summer. More importantly, I think that Salt Lake City is ready for summer. It's not that this winter was a particularly brutal one—I'm not certain I had to shovel my sidewalk even one time and I definitely never opened my bag of icemelt (yikes, amirite?).

1 month ago | cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood

click to enlarge Natalie Gochner has seen firsthand the effect of multi-modal streets in Salt Lake City, she said Friday. She's used the buffered bike lanes added to Main Street through a road diet to ride to events at the Delta Center, and she has watched the transformation of communities along 900 South after construction of the 9-Line Trail.