Salt Lake City’s massive weekly 999 bike ride: public nuisance or kind of cool?
It has drawn hundreds of fans, created friendships and built community, but there are mounting complaints about the noise, traffic and trash. Is a good thing going bad?
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cyclists start their ride at 9th and 9th to tour the streets of Salt Lake City during the weekly 999 social ride, Thursday, May 5, 2022.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.