About 60 people participated in Salt Lake City’s Bike to Work Day, riding from Liberty Park to the state capitol and other locations.

“It’s a day for us to focus attention on how easy it is to get around Salt Lake.  Easier and easier all the time on bikes,” said Mayor Ralph Becker, Salt Lake City.

The Utah Dept. of Transportation has scheduled lane restrictions and closures in Salt Lake County and throughout Utah.

In Salt Lake City, eastbound I-80 will be closed at I-215 from midnight Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday for concrete repair. Several on- and off-ramps in the downtown area will also be closed:

• 500 South to southbound I-15
• 500 South to westbound I-80
• northbound I-15 to 600 South
• southbound I-15 to westbound I-80
• eastbound I-80 to 600 South
• eastbound I-80 to southbound I-15
• eastbound I-80 to northbound I-15
   

On I-215, there will be nightly lane restrictions between Parley’s Canyon and 6200 South. Additionally, there will be ramp closures at California Ave., SR-201 and Union Park Ave. for pavement repairs and barrier work.

SALT LAKE CITY — Mel Nimer is Utah’s first openly gay Republican to win more than 50 percent of the vote for a Utah State Senate seat in 2010.

Nimer is now in a primary for nomination to an at-large seat on the Salt Lake County Council.

Nimer talked with FOX 13 a day after President Obama announced his support of gay marriage.

“As great and wonderful as the news is, he should have made it six months ago when he made the decision,” Nimer says describing his reaction hearing Obama’s stance.

Nimer says he does not necessarily think the President’s announcement was disingenuous.

“I question it. I don’t think the guy’s lying or anything, but I question any politician that comes out with that kind of thing, the timing. It’s a game they play,” says Nimer.