Alta Ski Area says the EIS report on Little Cottonwood Canyon has several holes that tolling and a gondola won't fix. The resort offered its own solutions.
Alta Ski Area shuns gondola, says metering signals could be answer to Little Cottonwood Canyon traffic
Alta’s town council signed the letter, as did the managers of its five lodges and several other business owners. “Whether it’s a gondola or it’s toll lanes or it’s buses,” Maughan said, “none of those solutions as proposed are designed to replace the current vehicle volume level in the canyon.”The red snake has poisoned some of Alta’s skiers and employees on the resort. Maughan said it is particularly hard on those who travel to the top of State Route 210, where his ski area sits, because they often are trapped there until the rest of the canyon clears out at the end of the day.
A simple way to solve that problem exists, Maughan wrote, and it’s a system UDOT already employs on other clogged highways: metering lights. Avalanche danger from the numerous slide paths crossing the most direct stretch between Snowbird and Alta tends to close the road more often than icy conditions or crashes. For that, building a snowshed over both lanes, Maughan said, or at least the downhill lane, makes the most sense.
Maughan said he had a meeting with UDOT representatives about a year ago to discuss the remedies he proposed. They told him they would look into them, he said, but nothing has been done. That, he said, prompted him to write and publish the “Red Snake Letter.” Snowbird began eliminating parking on the narrow north side of the highway this season, Fields said, and will not allow it at all moving forward. However, he said from his own observations, he has concluded that weather conditions and bad drivers are the biggest contributors to the red snake, not where people park. He would argue, he said, that incentives that bring people up the canyon later in the day are a bigger part of the problem.
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