The Real reason Killington isn't opening....

[Geoff]

Was this really significant? We're talking about folks that have either been busted or scared away from drinking and driving regularly and no longer patronize those establishments at all?
It just seems like that would be a very small number who actually stopped going given some people still drive drunk undetered and others use a designated driver or public transportation.

I went through a half-dozen DUI roadblocks on the Access Road last winter. That' not exactly tourist-friendly. For a resort that used to promote itsself as "Bourbon Street North", it acts to drive away a not-insignificant number of people who used to show up mostly for the party scene. Today, it's a pale shadow of what it was 20 years ago. Just one of a long list of things that have contributed to pushing people to other resorts.

 

[deadheadskier]

I went through a half-dozen DUI roadblocks on the Access Road last winter. That' not exactly tourist-friendly. For a resort that used to promote itsself as "Bourbon Street North", it acts to drive away a not-insignificant number of people who used to show up mostly for the party scene. Today, it's a pale shadow of what it was 20 years ago. Just one of a long list of things that have contributed to pushing people to other resorts.

This is not Killington specific though. I've seen DUI road checks in Stowe every winter since I first lived there in 95/96. NYE was a given and then at least a half dozen other times through out the winter. VT is as tough as anywhere on DUI prevention.

Down this way, Portsmouth has been doing it about once a month as well.

 

[bobbutts]

I can get on board with frequent roadblocks being a buzzkill. This is just a drawback of having a bar hopping circuit on a 4 lane road I guess. It does seem a little off that enforcing against drunk driving is considered somewhat of a negative on Alpinezone, but someone not wearing a helmet or using a cell phone on the chair is cause for uproar.

 

[Highway Star]

Bump.

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