Officials on Friday celebrated the completion of a $5.9 million project to double track part of the Sugarhouse streetcar line to allow more frequent service. They were even more ebullient about how the streetcar is helping to transform the community around it.
“The S-Line has been a catalyst for economic development,” in a once ignored area along an abandoned freight train line, said Carlton Christensen, chairman of Utah Transit Authority Board.
“We’ve seen … that if we build it, housing and people would come to it,” said U.S. Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, who pushed for the double tracking when he was the mayor of Salt Lake County.