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]
Articles
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1 day 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?).
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6 days 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.
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1 week ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge The Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to formally adopt three variant designs of the city's flag, acting on a request by Mayor Erin Mendenhall to exploit a loophole in HB77, which otherwise bans the flying of Pride and other pro-diversity banners from government buildings.
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1 week ago |
cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood
click to enlarge After a nearly two-year-long closure for renovation and repairs, the Salt Lake City Public Library is set to reopen its downtown Rooftop Terrace on May 17 with a public celebration between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.In a press announcement on Friday, the library promised a "Big Party!" to show off the terrace's upgrades, which coincided with work to repair the 20-year-old structure's waterproofing and drainage systems.
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3 weeks 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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