November 4, 201212 yr Not bad at all. These Western cities have really done a great job at getting rail. I presume that was a street car line in downtown Salt Lake City. Where the residential areas interesting at all in Salt Lake?
November 5, 201212 yr Lord have mercy! Those streets are WIDE! If light rail can work in Salt Lake City, it can work anywhere.
November 5, 201212 yr Not bad at all. These Western cities have really done a great job at getting rail. I presume that was a street car line in downtown Salt Lake City. Where the residential areas interesting at all in Salt Lake? Well, I believe in salt lake's case it took hosting an olympic games to get the funds for rail. Not that I'm jealous as a columbus resident or anything.
November 5, 201212 yr Aside from the rather wide streets...SLC has an awesome downtown. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 5, 201212 yr so clean you could eat off those streets, but as fran leibowitz says about places like this, clean is not enough.
November 6, 201212 yr Not bad at all. These Western cities have really done a great job at getting rail. I presume that was a street car line in downtown Salt Lake City. Where the residential areas interesting at all in Salt Lake? Well, I believe in salt lake's case it took hosting an olympic games to get the funds for rail. Not that I'm jealous as a columbus resident or anything. It also seems to help that nearly the entire population lives on a long north-south area that is very narrow due to mountains. It just made sense to throw a passenger rail line through it. It is a big tourist place for the ski people, and combined with the olympics from the past, the place has an absurd number of hotels I didn't see any residential areas that excited me, but I wasn't able to give a thorough search.
November 14, 201212 yr Salt Lake is sprawled as all hell, but driving around the city, you're amazed how far out that light rail goes. They really have invested a ton of money into transit there. It's weird considering how car-developed the city is. Those wide streets have always been there. The residential areas are a disaster, but that's expected in these interior west states. Salt Lake has an OK downtown (though I've heard nightlife is bad since this is obviously not a party town), but the urbanity drops off fast. There just isn't much pre-WW2 housing, certainly not as much as Ohio's big cities. And there is hardly any Victorian architecture, something Toledo still probably has in spades. Salt Lake City is not nearly as impressive as you expect it to be. The media is off with this one. It is a big tourist place for the ski people, and combined with the olympics from the past, the place has an absurd number of hotels And nearly all of them are sprawl hotels, similar to what you find along Ohio's freeway rings. But yeah, if your'e into skiing, this might be the best place to live in the country. The proximity to those resorts is excellent and it's a gorgeous area.
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