{"id":2774,"date":"2015-02-04T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:41:22","slug":"buses-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/04\/buses-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Buses Are for Other People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on KPCW we heard from Leslie Thatcher that an article had been sent to government officials that basically said that &#8220;people love buses &#8230; as long as they aren&#8217;t the ones riding in them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Especially in an upscale environment like Park City, <strong>it is important to understand what people actually will use versus what we wish they would use<\/strong>. We could put 1,000 buses on the road between the airport and Park City but would the average family from Chicago ride in a bus? The truth is no amount of marketing or parking fees is going to get that family in a bus. The Chicago family is already paying $800 a night at the Montage (and probably $30 a day in parking). They don&#8217;t care&#8230; and most importantly won&#8217;t ride a bus. No matter how much we wish they would.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the document that was sent to our government officials (click the image for a bigger version &#8212; you may need to click again once you are looking at it to make it really big):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bus-adoption-big.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2775 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/bus-adoption-800.jpg\" alt=\"bus-adoption-800\" width=\"800\" height=\"1092\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>h\/t to the Friend of Ours who forwarded us this document<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on KPCW we heard from Leslie Thatcher that an article had been sent to government officials that basically said that &#8220;people love&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}