Burying Downtown’s Rails, Utah Freshman Nightmare, and Bugs a la Carte

The Rio Grande Plan to bury rail lines in Salt Lake City finds surprising support in the Salt Lake County Council. Executive producer Emily Means joins host Ali Vallarta to discuss what it would take to make this dream a reality. Plus, University of Utah students are back to school with nowhere to sleep, bug recipes, and where to watch 40 meteors an hour this weekend. 

Resources and references:

• A grassroots plan to radically change train lines through SLC just got a key endorsement [Salt Lake Tribune]
• Could This Plan Revive SLC’s Rio Grande Station? [City Cast Salt Lake]
• ‘They need to do better’: Parents frustrated over University of Utah dorm chaos [Salt Lake Tribune]
• Check out Bugfest at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Aug. 10 and 11.
• Dark Sky places in Utah for viewing the Perseid meteor shower.

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