Public Transit Funding & Arches Shuttle Integration

How many people rode the Arches shuttle from Moab in September? About 14 a day

You Asked, We Answered — Grand County's first month of shuttle data shows 411 boardings in Moab for rides into Arches National Park in September. The pilot is budgeted at $3 million, including $500,000 of county money.

Grand County approves parking, attendant agreements for Moab-Arches shuttle

Grand County commissioners approved two agreements Oct. 6 for the Moab-Arches shuttle pilot, formalizing arrangements for city parking and stops and adding shuttle attendant staffing to operator Via’s existing contract. Both measures passed 4-3, with...

Grand County seeks state grant for a shop-local program that could put ad screens on the Arches shuttle

Grand County will apply for a state grant for a shop-local program that would put digital ad screens inside the Arches shuttles, if the Park Service allows ads there. Commissioners also revived a shuttle parking deal on a revote and added up to $114,...

What’s on the Oct. 6 Grand County Commission agenda: an Arches shuttle grant, a subdivision review hearing and higher health insurance costs

Commissioners decide Tuesday whether to seek a state grant to advertise local businesses on the Arches shuttle. Their advisory board deadlocked on the idea after a county staffer’s vote was thrown out. Also up: who reviews big subdivisions and a pric...

Salt Lake City flights are back in Moab. Here’s what travelers should know.

SkyWest Airlines returned to Canyonlands Regional Airport on Oct. 1, restoring commercial flights between Moab and Salt Lake City. Year-round Denver service is scheduled to begin Oct. 7. The Salt Lake route operates as Delta Connection and will conti...

Letter: Is anyone overseeing the Arches shuttle?

Saxon Sharpe tried to catch the Moab Arches Shuttle at the south Maverick stop on Sept. 17. A bus pulled into the lot, never came to the signed stop, and drove away. — Saxon Sharpe, Spanish Valley

Opinion: The Fund 47 fight isn't really about Fund 47

Grand County Commissioner Jacques Hadler argues the Fund 47 dispute is really about the 2015 transportation sales tax, and says two colleagues have weaponized its use to fund the Arches shuttle.

State letter questions how Grand County pays for trails

A Sept. 4 letter from the Utah State Auditor's office says about $1.57 million in Grand County trail spending came from a voter-approved sales tax that state law limits to transportation. The county's audit committee took it up Friday, Sept. 18.

City of Moab backs Arches shuttle, prioritizes MAT

The wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round — as long as someone keeps paying the bill. “Next year we do not have the funding for the MAT,” said Mayor Joette Langianese at a Sept. 8 Moab City Council discussion about Grand County’s new Moab-Arches shu...

Trump’s move to slash Utah national monuments sparks lawsuits from Patagonia and environmental groups

The lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court ... seek to reactivate cases initially filed in 2017 when Trump previously reduced the size of the two monuments.

The Moab-Arches shuttle is running. Here’s how to use it

Grand County’s free Moab-Arches shuttle began carrying public passengers Tuesday, Sept. 1, during a week of testing ahead of an official launch Sept. 8 and the start of promotion Sept. 9. Both connected routes and every planned stop are active during...

Free Moab-to-Arches shuttle set for Sept. 1 launch with four local stops

Grand County plans to launch its free Moab-to-Arches shuttle Sept. 1 with three primary local boarding locations and an overflow stop. The county has selected the Moab Information Center, the Emma Boulevard parking lot and the Moab Area Transit stop ...

BLM withdraws approval of 10 southeastern Utah backcountry airstrips

The Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn its June decision approving formal aircraft use at 10 backcountry airstrips in southeastern Utah, leaving the proposal under agency review. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance appealed the approval, argui...

Moab-to-Arches shuttle takes shape; commissioners walk out after funding dispute

The proposed Moab-to-Arches shuttle has a clearer route to launch. Grand County commissioners approved a management agreement with the National Park Service, authorized completion of an operator contract worth up to $2.86 million and voted Tuesday to...

Trump administration works to erase Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments

These signs play a practical role. They mark the entrances to the national monuments for visitors, indicating that these areas are some of the nation’s most important protected public landscapes.

A Monumental tug of war

The deluge of anguished cries over President Trump’s re-do of Biden’s re-do of Trump’s re-do of Obama’s and Clinton’s massive southern Utah national monuments came fast and hot.

Days after slashing Bears Ears, Trump administration removes tribal seals from monument signs

The latest actions from Trump follow years of political tug-of-war over the monument boundaries. Trump first shrank the monument in 2017. Biden restored and expanded it in 2021.

Delta and United will fly to Moab starting October, connections via SLC and Denv

A new way to reach Arches National Park is now available from Moab

MOAB — An experiment to improve transportation challenges at Arches National Park is now available, albeit for a limited time, while local leaders test the concept.Moab to Arches Shuttle officially launched on ...

Trump's Utah monument cuts put a century-old law under the microscope

SALT LAKE CITY — The perpetual tug-of-war over American monuments like Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante have many Americans up in arms over the 1906 Antiquities Act.Questions about the century-old...