UTA Free Transit for 3-day Kilby Block Party outdoor music festival + transportation planning requirements for concert facilities

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I re-dated this entry because I forgot to add the last section on transportation demand management planning requirements for concert venues.

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There is a big outdoor concert in Salt Lake, sponsored by a local music venue, Kilby Court.  The event is three days at the Fairgrounds, and is called the Kilby Block Party.  It features some big bands.

I wrote how the transit agency in Perth provided free transit to the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert, as a form of transportation demand management.  (Melbourne did too, but without complementary services, and their services paled by comparison to Perth.)

-- "Transperth transit (Perth, Western Australia) provides free transit to certain events, like the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert on 2/12/2023"

That entry discusses how a few arenas in the US in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle also provide free transit to ticketholders of most events.

The Utah Transit Authority is pretty good on providing free transit in association with certain events such as the NBA All Star Game, and the Mormon General Conference, as well as in association with all University of Utah sporting events.  I don't know how much those organizations pay, if any, for this privilege.  

I presume they do, since the Salt Lake Bees minor league baseball team and the Utah Jazz NBA team don't have free transit ("The good and the bad of getting around by Utah Transit," City Weekly) even though they are served by Trax light rail.  Which is why I say that such TDM requiremens should be in the City land use and transportation plans.

Anyway, UTA provides free transit to the Kilby Block Party.

Pretty cool.

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I forgot to include this section.  A lot of concert facilities locate in a manner disconnected from transit.  For example, the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, and it doesn't even have bus service ("New proposal aims to bring public transit to Red Rocks Amphitheater: Bus service could make world-class facility much more accessible to locals and visitors," ABC7 Denver), the USANA Amphitheatre in Suburban Sandy, Utah, and the Red Butte Amphitheater which is part of the University of Utah campus, and the Jiffy Lube Live Pavilion in Exurban Northern Virginia--went there once, and never again, or Wolf Trap, run by the National Park Service--for years it was far from Metrorail, now it's within 4 miles of a station and there is a shuttle bus service for $5 round trip. Merriweather Post Pavilion in Suburban Baltimore had never had a decent transit connection.  Etc.

OTOH, there are concert venues that are Metrorail accessible, for example Barclays Center in Brooklyn and Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York City or the Verizon Center in DC, which are on top of multiple transit lines and have a fair amount of transit use.

Some arenas take this a step further.  Ticketed music events at Talking Stick Arena in Phoenix, Chase Center in San Francisco, and the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle include free transit (except ferry).  

Using the Dutch land use and transportation planning paradigm requiring putting high demand transportation uses in places with high frequency transit, it should be a minimum requirement that concert facilities have high quality transit service, in terms of metropolitan land use and transportation planning.

-- "The ABC location policy in the Netherlands: ‘The right business at the right place’