By far the biggest action, though, was completing a year of work, and myriad revisions, to pass a bill to restructure UTA and rename it the Transit District of Utah.
“It’s a new day for transportation,” said Sen. Wayne Harper, R-Taylorsville and sponsor of that bill. He said renaming UTA signals that scandals there are being wiped away.
“The UTA brand itself by those who ride and use the facilities is pretty good. I don’t think it’s as tarnished as others would like to believe,” Herbert said. The way to improve that further is with “the end result of a better product.