The service, available through UTA's partnership with the city and the transit tech company Via, is a one-year pilot program to see if the service is viable for a part of the city that doesn't have as many transit options as neighborhoods in its eastern neighbor. The Utah Transit Authority launched its UTA On Demand for a new service area that covers the city's Fairpark, Glendale, Jordan Meadows, Poplar Grove and Rose Park neighborhoods for at least the next year. And because she won, she was sworn in immediately as a City Council member to fill in the vacant seat left by the previous council member who had resigned.īut that experience is why Petro-Eschler is thrilled with a new public transportation microtransit service - a cross between transitional public transit and rideshare technology - that launched in Salt Lake City's west side Monday.
She's thankful that the crash didn't ruin her campaign efforts leading up to the election, which she won. "Trying to find rides and get around was terribly difficult without a private car." It's very easy over here to not feel like we have transit options," she said of the city's west-side neighborhoods. Petro-Eschler, a resident of the Jordan Meadows neighborhood, was in the middle of campaigning for the Salt Lake City Council District 1 seat, which represents the city's northwestern neighborhoods, when the crash happened just a week before the municipal election. It couldn't have happened at a worse time. Victoria Petro-Eschler found herself in a difficult position when her car was totaled in a crash in late October.
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