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Kimball Junction redesign includes option to bury SR 224
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and last updated 2021-05-18 14:58:51-04
PARK CITY, Utah â Visitors to Park City know how the road leading from I-80 into town can become gridlocked, especially on a powder day, but a corridor plan now includes an option to bury that road altogether, according to a report from the Park City Record.
Progress on the plan has been slow, but the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) released a
Kimball Junction Area Plan that includes three options to address traffic congestion at the junction of I-80 and S.R. 224, the road leading into town.
Park Record file photo
The Kimball Junction roadway redesign project took another step forward this month, continuing methodically through a decade-long process that seems as slow, in governmental terms, as it does to be stuck in a series of red lights trying to get to the grocery store at 5 p.m. on a ski day.
But Caroline Rodriguez, Summit County’s top transportation planner, said the fact that the process is continuing is itself a good sign, indicating that construction could be on its way.
“The fact that we’ve even completed a corridor plan … it’s a big step,” Rodriguez said.
Courtesy of the High Valley Transit District
High Valley Transit, the nascent district set to take over Summit County’s transit operations in two months, recently started spending cash in a big way, inking deals with a consultant to run the operation and instructing staffers to secure the vehicles that will soon shuttle passengers around the Snyderville Basin.
Officials agreed to spend nearly $900,000 for two buses and agreed to a master services agreement and other deals with River North Transit LLC, the subsidiary of Via Transportation that will run services here.
Kim Carson, High Valley Transit’s board president, said the contracts and vehicle purchases are exciting first steps for the district.