![]() ![]() FrontRunner: Connections to Salt Lake FrontRunner: Connections to Salt Lake. Today, TRAX features three lines: the Blue Line from Draper to Salt Lake City, the Red Line from South Jordan to the University of Utah and the Green Line from West Valley to the Salt Lake International Airport, for a total 42.5 miles of line and 50 stations. destination includes routes and stops that service. 4, 1999, and connected riders from Salt Lake City to Sandy. Riders can also pay using FAREPAY cards or other forms of electronic payment by tapping the card on the card reader before boarding and after exiting the train. Trains can range in length from one to four cars depending on time, day and projected ridership.įare must be purchased before boarding at an on-platform ticket vending machine or UTA customer service location. TRAX is electrically powered via a pantograph that connects the train to overhead catenary wires. TRAX runs seven days per week, with 15-minute frequency during peak times. It’s still perfectly usable, but not quite as good as it could be.TRAX, UTA’s light rail system, offers convenient connections to community destinations, shopping centers, schools and universities, FrontRunner stations, bus hubs and Park & Ride lots throughout the Salt Lake valley. Our final word: Has all the elements of a fine strip map, but somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts. Adding “Commuter Rail” underneath the FrontRunner label solves that problem – maybe it needs to also be “S-Line Streetcar”? I’d try to avoid adding a legend to a simple strip map like this as it just increases the amount of information that needs to be parsed by a reader. The “S-Line” and “FrontRunner” are a bit more problematic as they’re not explained quite as conveniently. It’s explained at the top of the map that this light rail line is the “Green Line”, so I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume that the “Blue Line” and “Red Line” – which also share a similar icon – are also light rail. I think the icons to the left of the line are generally fine and easily understood. Some quick fixes: move all the labels to the left a bit (to match the gap to the icons on the left of the route line), track all the letters out a bit for readability and increase the font size as much as possible. At first glance, it comes across looking more like Microsoft’s Calibri, which is almost never the desired result. While it’s a fine typeface that is designed to be used for wayfinding purposes, I find its use here a bit flat and underwhelming. Part of it is the typeface, which I believe is Hoefler&Co.’s Whitney. This strip map does the job, but still somehow feels a bit loose and incomplete compared to the best examples from around the world – Berlin’s being a prime example. Thanks for the photo, Mike! It’s good to see that UTA is moving in the right direction when it comes to passenger information – particularly at the airport, which may be people’s first introduction to the city’s light rail system. On the other hand, the one really helpful thing that this line map does include is mentioning that the Green Line does go downtown, which is probably the most sought after piece of information for people arriving at the airport and looking to ride the train downtown. Another big complaint is that UTA continues to leave off any information about bus services, which would be helpful in encouraging riders to use connecting buses. First off, it might not be obvious to riders new to the system that the icons represent transfer points to other UTA rail services, so a legend might be helpful. ![]() However, I feel the map is lacking somewhat. General UTA TRAX News Items Most recent event listed first AugWith the opening of the Mid-Jordan and West Valley TRAX lines, UTA also started using its new color-codes to designate its various light rail routes. I do feel that this kind of map is useful in this context. Map UTA TRAX Lines - A Google Map of Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail line in Salt Lake Valley. Being built within the UTA-owned rail corridor, the Draper TRAX extension features 3 new passenger stations. While these have existed on board UTA’s TRAX light rail and FrontRunner commuter rail trains for a while, this is the first time they have used this kind of map at a station. The Draper TRAX Line is a 3.8 mile (Double Track) light rail extension of the UTA Sandy-Salt Lake Line from its terminus at 10000 South in Sandy to Pioneer Road in Draper. One interesting new thing for UTA at the station is a line map. The construction of the new terminal at Salt Lake City International Airport necessitated constructing a new light rail station, which opened today. ![]()
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