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Utah Transportation Commission derails plan to extend S-Line Streetcar into Sugar House shopping center.

ROY—The Utah Transportation Commission showed little hesitation before approving roughly $3 billion in roadway expansion projects on Friday, posing virtually no questions to Utah Department of Transportation staff and limiting their comments to effusive praise for the necessary attention to driver bottlenecks.

Cyclists ride alongisde the S-Line Streetcar in Salt Lake City on March 5, 2025. ROY—The Utah Transportation Commission showed little hesitation before approving roughly $3 billion in roadway expansion projects on Friday, posing virtually no questions to Utah Department of Transportation staff and limiting their comments to effusive praise for the necessary attention to driver bottlenecks.

But a few minutes later, facing a $9 million agenda item related to transit—specifically the long-planned extension of the S-Line Streetcar into the Sugar House strip-mall shopping cluster on Highland…

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