Salt Lake City and the Utah Transit Authority is attempting to encourage downtown business by providing cheap parking for the remainder of the light-rail construction.
The program, which began Monday, gives businesses between 100 and 700 South along Main $2 parking validations for a variety of area parking lots. The validations, paid for by UTA and Salt Lake City at a cost of $140,000, will then be distributed at the discretion of the business owners.Signage will be provided for the participating businesses and parking lots. Any parking lots not accepting the validations will also have signage announcing that fact. The cou-pons will not be distributed in either the ZCMI or Crossroads malls, although both of their parking garages will accept the validations.