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My post was mainly tongue and cheek. Keep reading on here how bad the parking and traffic has been at the Utah resorts this year. Now picture what a 50% increase in skier visits might do? Granted, there will be less people driving from resort to resort if the interconnecting lifts are reasonably efficient. However, there would be a MASSIVE increase in skiers coming to the state if One Wasatch came to fruition.
Increase the number of visitors by 50% and what does it look like?
I'm curious what their thoughts are on increased traffic.Do you have a basis for that number? I think ONE Wasatch (were it to ever happen) would have a huge economically positive impact on the entire Wasatch ring, but I cant imagine it would lead to a 50% increase in skier visits. That sounds over-the-top. I know the ONE Wasatch folks did impact study type stuff, but I dont even think ONE Wasatch promised that.
Housing costs are really high. Forecasts are that the population is going to continue to grow.
One Wasatch only really benefits Park City skiers who can ski over to the Cottonwoods. Makes sense for those visitors. Doesn't make sense for me.
I'm curious what their thoughts are on increased traffic.
To put things in perspective, Vail, Breck and Keystone do about as many skier visits as the entire state of Utah. A bit over 4M visits a year on average. You create an interconnected mega resort of 7 different ski areas and market it correctly and there's a real possibility with it's easier access to an airport that One Wasatch could draw 5+ million visits a season.
The home prices seem as expensive as New Jersey, but with significantly lower salaries. Even adjusting for the fact Utah is a low-tax state & New Jersey is a high-tax state, the real estate valuations out there seem alarmingly high & likely unsustainable long-term. Definitely seems like one of the regional markets at risk for correction.
I think it would be exciting for the SLC, Sandy, etc... housed tourists who'd want to ski over to Park City too. The ONE Wasatch website says it would take about 2 hours to ski from Snowbird to Main Street. I think of it more as an "experience" and I think it would definitely be a significant marketing draw. I'm not sure how they'd run this for locals, but my guess is that with RFID it is now easier than ever before from a technical standpoint.
So the big issue is that the economy here is booming. And folks are coming here in droves. Housing costs are really high. Forecasts are that the population is going to continue to grow. Is that a guarantee? No. But One Wasatch doesn't fix the traffic issue with the population growth. One Wasatch only really benefits Park City skiers who can ski over to the Cottonwoods. Makes sense for those visitors. Doesn't make sense for me.
As to mass transit option, that is a DECADES long issue and the bigger problem is that Utah is cheap as f%^k.
It only makes sense for Park City visitors to ski over to the Canyons? How do you figure that?
I seriously can’t figure out your logic here.
The home prices seem as expensive as New Jersey, but with significantly lower salaries. Even adjusting for the fact Utah is a low-tax state & New Jersey is a high-tax state, the real estate valuations out there seem alarmingly high & likely unsustainable long-term. Definitely seems like one of the regional markets at risk for correction.
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Do we build a tunnel for cars to drive between BCC and LCC?