Central Metro/East - Park City
Summit County Council green lights transit center at Kimball Junction
Angelique McNaughten, The Park Record
http://www.parkrecord.com/summit_cou...nsit-center-at
The Summit County Council on Wednesday gave the Public
Works Department and Park City Transit the green light to motor ahead
with a Kimball Junction transit center...
... Officials say the transit center would feature an outdoor plaza, access
to Wi-Fi, arrival and departure boards, shelters and landscaping.
The transit center is not intended to encourage a park-and-ride system
in the Kimball Junction area. Instead, it is meant to offer quicker travel
times into Park City.
"I see it as a circulatory system," said Derrick Radke, Summit County
Public Works Department director. "We're trying to make it quicker and
more efficient to get people in and out...
The need for a Kimball Junction transit facility was identified in a 2007
Summit County/Park City Short-Range Transit Plan, according to a
County Courthouse staff report prepared in anticipation of the
meeting.
The report states that the current transit system carries 2 million
passengers per year with nearly one-third of riders starting and ending
in the Snyderville Basin.
"This facility is crucial to the realignment of county routes to provide
enhanced frequency and efficiency and also to support planned
development in the Kimball Junction area," Radke said.
Kent Cashel, long-range transportation planner with City Hall, said the
Kimball Junction area is a "critical spot for the transit center."...