Salt Lake City and UTA announced this morning that the Sugar House Streetcar Project was selected as one of just a few projects nationwide to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation TIGER II grant program.

Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker is joined by Acting UTA Chief Capital Development Officer Ralph Jackson and Salt Lake City Councilmembers J.T. Martin, Jill Remington-Love and Soren Simonson to announce the grant.

Environmental work and preliminary engineering has already been completed for the two-mile line, that will travel between the 2100 South TRAX Station and McClelland Street near 1050 East along a historic railroad corridor UTA purchased in 2002. A map of the alignment is below.

UTA is now preparing to request bids for construction and work on the line could begin as early as next spring with a tentative completion date of 2012 or 2013.

Map of the Sugar House Streetcar Project.