On Tuesday night, Salt Lake County voters approved a bond that will fund completion of the Jordan River Parkway Trail and Parley’s Trail, two major regional off-street bike paths connecting communities along the Wasatch Front. Proposition 1 was approved 56 percent to 44 percent, passing easily. Over twenty years, the $47 million bond amounts to a property tax increase of $5.73 per year on a residential property worth $238,000. The County Council unanimously supported the bond, originally proposed in 2011 by then-Mayor Peter Corroon.
The bond will provide $11.5 million for completion of the Jordan River Trail. Southern JRT segments will be completed from 8600 South to 9000 South in West Jordan City, from 14600 South at the Springview Farms Trailhead to 15000 South, and from 15900 South to 16500 South around the Point of the Mountain near Camp Williams. These new segments will form an uninterrupted path to the edge of Utah Lake. The bond will also fund a new bicycle/pedestrian bridge over the rail yard between 200 South and North Temple in Salt Lake City. People who walk, bike and run on the trail currently detour eastward to 1000 West to bypass the yard. The completed Jordan River Trail will offer a 45-mile uninterrupted pathway through Salt Lake County.
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| The existing gap in the Jordan River Trail between 200 South and North Temple in Salt Lake City will be bridged using funds approved in Proposition 1. Source: Salt Lake County, http://slco.org/parkbond/Jordan_River_Trail.html |
For Parley’s Trail, $9 million from the bond will fund two new segments of shared-use pathway. One segment will link the existing path through Tanner Park to the Sugar House Streetcar shared-use path, currently under construction from McClelland Street to 500 East in Salt Lake City. A second segment will link 500 East to the Jordan River Trail, creating a continuous, eight-mile shared-use path from the mouth of Parley’s Canyon westward through Salt Lake City.
In addition to completing regional shared-use paths, the bond will fund construction of three regional parks and the purchase of land for a fourth. The parks will be located in Draper, Kearns/West Valley City, and Bluffdale, with land set aside for a future park in Magna.
Following construction, residents and visitors will be able to pedal on a continuous off-street network from deep in Davis County, through the Salt Lake Valley, and into Utah County, and eventually connecting with the Provo River Parkway.
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