Julie Bjornstead of the Wasatch Front Regional Council briefed Transcom on Utah’s Unified Transportation Plan, the statewide compilation of MPO and UDOT long‑range plans that catalogs multimodal needs through 2050 and provides a public, map‑based interface at unifiedplan.org.
Bjornstead said the plan catalogs active transportation, roads and transit needs and assigns projects to phasing buckets (Phase 1–3 and unfunded needs) based on assumed revenue. She described the online map features—by planning agency, mode, DOT region and legislative or house district—and said each project entry includes cost, jurisdiction and other notes where applicable.
The presentation included high‑level finance figures from staff: “We have about a hundred and $53,000,000,000 worth of transportation needs in the next 27 years,” Bjornstead said; staff described an anticipated prioritized amount of funding available of roughly $113,000,000 (as presented) and an assumed new‑revenue planning figure of about $18,400,000,000, leaving approximately $40,000,000,000 in unmet need across the state through 2050. The plan also shows economic impacts of investments and how projects feed into the TIF/TTF prioritization models.
BJornstead encouraged regional stakeholders to attend upcoming local workshops tied to the Wasatch Choice Vision and noted the map and supporting pages on unifiedplan.org for more project‑level information.
Ending: WFRC staff said the unified plan remains a working resource for regional and state partners and will inform prioritization and short‑range programming.