SALT LAKE CITY — Between roads blocked by trains and congestion from freeway traffic, nearly three out of four Salt Lake City commuters who responded to a survey as part of the city’s east-west study said they deal with travel delays multiple times a day, usually daily.

That underscores the challenges that exist in Utah’s capital city.

“It’s real clear that there’s a really robust mobility challenge in the city,” said Joe Taylor, a transportation planner for Salt Lake City. “You try to get from one half of the city to the other, and you are often met with an unpredictable challenge. … It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s that you can’t predict how it’s going to go.”

Salt Lake’s divide

Salt Lake City transportation planners provided city leaders with an update about the study on Tuesday,

See Full Page