Want to do your part to help clean up our winter air? Leave your car at home and ride UTA instead. Public transportation is a great way to reduce polluting vehicle emissions. For more information about ways that you can help keep our air clean, please visit www.ucair.org.

Clean Air Resources

See the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s air quality forecast, sign up for email alerts and more here.

Use UCAIR’s commuting calculator to see how many pounds of emissions you can reduce by riding transit.

Follow UTA on Twitter to learn about mandatory air quality action days and get other public transit updates.

Did You Know?

It only takes 1.26 bus passengers to offset the emissions of a UTA bus. (UTA Air Quality Brochure)

UTA is reducing bus emissions by investing in compressed natural gas technology as well as testing and evaluating all-electric buses.

One seven-mile commuter trip in a single-occupant vehicle produces more than 53 times the emissions of a commuter who bikes to a TRAX station and uses public transit. (UTA Air Quality Brochure)

UTA produces a net savings of more than 2,000 tons of criteria air pollutants in vehicle emissions annually. (UTA Air Quality Brochure)

Nationally, light rail systems produce 62 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions per passenger mile than the average single-occupancy vehicle. Buses produce an average of 33 percent fewer emissions per mile.  (www.transit.dot.gov)

According to the Federal Transit Administration, “Switching to riding public transportation is one of the most effective actions individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint. Car transportation alone accounts for 47% of the carbon footprint of a typical American family with two cars—by far the largest source of household emissions.” (www.transit.dot.gov)