Two voices: a comparative analysis of unsheltered and stakeholder perspectives of East-West transportation disconnections in Salt Lake City

Communities around the nation are witnessing hopeful change and a trajectory toward new-age, human-based infrastructure. Transportation disconnections are barriers to an individual's mobility in a city where individuals and even entire communities are cut off from opportunity (Seeley, 2023). Heavily trafficked roads and highways from outdated planning approaches and the lack of infrastructure for active transportation and public transit pose severe equity, health, economic, and environmental issues to communities (CAN, 2022). Highways, rail lines, limited walking paths and bike lanes, inconsistency or unreliability of public transit, and compromised infrastructure limit one's movement and success throughout a city.