Letter: UTA ridership won’t come back without a mask requirement

I recently listened to several minutes of the Utah Legislature’s interim session while a Utah Transit Authority employee talked about UTA’s efforts to raise bus and train ridership in Salt Lake County after a decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic.They listed many ideas to help riders think they will be safe while riding the bus again — plexiglass for the driver, boarding from the back, sanitizing the buses daily, etc. However, there is only one thing UTA needs to do to make peop