Wheel

Between the blue line, the red line and the green line, there are 58 miles of Trax (which stands for Transit Express) in Salt Lake Valley - though the tracks actually overlap a good deal in the middle. Even if you could lay them end to end it would be a fraction of the 146 miles of rail our public transit system once had. Salt Lake’s first streetcars were pulled by mules. In 1881 they were powered by electricity. By the turn of the century, the Utah Light and Traction Company was a convenient, efficient and inexpensive way to travel from Centerville to Holladay and anywhere in between. Buses began to replace trolleys in the 1920s, and Salt Lake's streetcars made their last run in 1946. The Sugar House Streetcar, now called the S Line, has been running since last December. I haven’t ridden it yet, but I plan to the next time the weather and my schedule permit.