Besides the station's opening on the site of the previous Union Pacific Layton Depot, access in the area has also recently been improved (both from I-15 and from surrounding parts of Layton) by the completion of the new Layton Parkway interchange on I-15, which is just south of the station. The station is near the south end of Layton's historic downtown area, which had suffered from a hard-to-access location in a highly acute wedge bounded by I-15 on the northeast and the railroad tracks on the southwest.
The station is located at 150 South Main Street ( SR-126) on approximately 12.5 acres of land and is easily accessed from I-15 by way of the new Layton Parkway interchange. It is operated by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). They are not willing to locate somewhere where there might be transit in 20 years.Layton station is a FrontRunner commuter rail station in Layton, Utah. “We could see a significant degradation of the capacity to get around.”Įnvision Utah President Ari Bruening added, “We’ve heard from a lot of employers that transit is a requirement for them to want to locate in a certain area. “If we fail, those 150,000 jobs could go somewhere else,” Envision Utah CEO Robert Grow told the commission in 2019. UTA was pushed to conduct the study by state leaders as the state-sponsored Point of the Mountain Commission said replacing the state prison with proper development could generate billions in revenue throughout the Wasatch Front “if the right steps are taken.”Ī study by Envision Utah for that commission said those “right steps” include about $3 billion in transportation improvements, including extending the Mountain View Corridor freeway and running TRAX through the area. I think it’s because once cities get a BRT, they see that it’s meeting their needs and probably exceeding their expectations.” Garver said that while such conversion into a rail line is possible and often talked about when BRTs are proposed nationally, “In reality, it’s has not happened a lot. UTA Board member Beth Holbrook asked if a BRT could be converted into a TRAX line someday if demand for that arose. She adds that the Point of the Mountain BRT under consideration is “what we call a gold-standard BRT,” which would allow level boarding from a platform (instead of climbing stairs), exclusive lanes for almost 90% of its route and off-board fare collection.īecause of some geologic challenges that trains would face at the steep Point of the Mountain but a BRT bus would not, Garver said a BRT system would also be able to offer an extra station at the prison site area - and is another reason for selecting it as the preferred alternative. Garver told the UTA board that when people are inside a BRT bus, “You wouldn’t know that you are not on rail because the vehicles are almost like” train cars in design.
UTA is about to build a BRT line between downtown Ogden and Weber State University, and is studying other possible BRTs from northern Utah County to Orem/Provo (which could tie into a Point of the Mountain system), and from Davis County to downtown Salt Lake City. It also offers service every 6 minutes at peak times, often quicker than TRAX.
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The Utah Valley Express BRT system in Orem and Provo has rivaled the TRAX Green Line in Salt Lake County for ridership, but that may be helped because the UVX has enjoyed free fares since it opened because of a federal grant.
(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) One of UTA's Utah Valley Express (UVX) buses makes a stop in Orem, Tuesday Sept.
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