- Salt Lake City Council voted to close a small section of 200 South in Poplar Grove.
- The closure will help create a quiet zone, reducing train horn noise for west side residents.
- Mayor Erin Mendenhall praised the decision as a step toward silencing disruptive trains.
SALT LAKE CITY — Residents of Salt Lake City’s west side had long complained about disruptive train horns blaring at all times in the day well before the fiasco that led to a similar issue from Ogden to Provo between late 2024 and early 2025.
While the issue has been solved elsewhere along the Wasatch Front, leaders of Utah’s capital city hope that its decision to close a section of 200 South in Poplar Grove indefinitely will resolve the issue across every railroad crossing.
The Salt Lake City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to close a section of the road between Montgomery Street and approximately 1640 West. It allows the city to close off a railroad crossing in the area, as early as this July, that prevented it from qualifying for a federal quiet zone…