General Conference is this weekend — What to expect if you're heading to Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY — is set to host its semi-annual General Conference at the . The event draws in more than 100,000 Latter-day Saints to the Conference Center twice each year.
The Church encourages people to use public transit due to the influx of people to the Temple Square area, especially amid ongoing renovations which are not expected to be completed until 2027.
North Temple Street will open and close intermittently over the weekend. North Temple between Main Street and West Temple Street will be closed two hours ahead of the . The road will reopen in a limited capacity during the sessions and then close again.
There will be three sessions on Saturday and two on Sunday, all but one of which are two hours long. The first session will begin at 10 a.m., meaning traffic will be impacted as early as 8 a.m. on both days.
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Gavin Gustafson of the told ABC4.com that those attending General Conference can use their ticket to General Conference sessions as fare to ride to and from the Conference Center.
Valid services UTA allows ticket-as-fare for are:
Regular bus
Express Bus
FrontRunner
S-Line
TRAX
UTA On Demand
Gustafson said UTA will be ready to provide surge service on an as-needed basis. Along with that, there will be extra TRAX service over the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, UTA will have extra cars on Blue Line trains, and on Sunday there will be two extra Blue Line trains before and after each conference session.
The Church says online that those attending should consider traffic and plan to arrive early for sessions of General Conference. You can view more about parking for General Conference by clicking .
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