Category Archive For "Transportation"
Do You Like Park City’s New Bus Tracking App? Do You Know What it Cost?
Do you like Park City’s new bus tracking iPhone App? What, you hadn’t heard of it? That’s OK, you may want to check it out. It’s actually kind of cool… and of course, you paid for it. In 2011, the Park City City Council unanimously voted to contract with Avail Technologies to add GPS (global …
Would You Really Use Alternative Forms of Transportation?
On Friday evening we went into Kimball Junction to get pizza. People across America do something similar every Friday. People in Chicago. People in Washington DC. People in Los Angeles. What do we now have in common with those people? Traffic. It usually takes 5 minutes to get from Pinebrook to our destination in Kimball Junction but tonight it …
New Traffic Feature at the Park Rag
We have added a new page to the Park Rag that shows traffic cameras around Park City. We personally have used this to help decide how we should plan our travels around town. It helps us decide whether we should take the front or back way as we are coming or going. The TRAFFIC page is …
Supporters of Light Rail Up Parleys Must Be Smoking the Ganja While Watching Their Warren Miller Films
The promise of light rail is alluring. Hop on a high speed train in Salt Lake and be effortlessly transported to Park City. No traffic. No stress. Pure Bliss. There’s only one problem … Distance X’s Dollars. First, let’s talk distances from Salt Lake to Park City. The closest TRAX station (to us) in Salt Lake …
A Letter of Thanks from the Summit County Council
October 9, 2014 Summit County Council would like to thank the community for participating in our Snyderville Basin Long Range Transportation Plan public open house held on September 30th at the Richins Building in Park City. We estimate a total of 130 residents joined with Summit County, Park City and Wasatch County policymakers to provide …
Guest Editorial: Should we be thinking differently about how we plan for the future?
The Park Rag believes in Park City. We believe people throughout our community have great ideas that may not have been heard. With that in mind, here’s a guest editorial by Doug Engfer we hope you will consider… Well, it seems as if there is a whole lot of planning going on, what with Park …
Thoughts on Park City Heights
Over the weekend we took the opportunity to visit the site where Park City Heights is being built near Quinn’s Junction, behind the movie studio. Park City Heights is a master planned community approved by the Park City Planning Commission in 2011. The site will have approximately 240 units with a mix of market rate homes …
This probably wasn’t what they wanted to read…
This article on seasonal workers, referencing Scott Loomis, executive director of the Mountainlands Community Housing Trust, probably wasn’t what local officials, who are looking for solutions to our transportation problems, were hoping to read: Workers with cars — often the ones who have them are coming from elsewhere in the United States — can also stay in …
Transportation Whiteboards and Spreadsheet of Vote Count
Summit County and Park City held a transportation meeting on Tuesday where the public offered input on various concepts to help reduce transportation issues. The public was able to vote on which issues they agreed with (green dots) or disagreed with (red dots). If anyone is interested in what the original whiteboards look like and/or …
How Our Community Voted on Various Transportation Ideas During the Basin Transportation Meeting
During last night’s Snyderville Basin Transportation meeting, the organizers placed whiteboards with various concepts designed to better understand how the public feels about potential solutions to Basin traffic problems. Each of the 120+ attendees had the chance to put a green sticker next to a concept they agreed with or a red sticker next to …
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