{"id":3483,"date":"2015-04-14T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2015-04-14T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T15:20:11","slug":"average-traffic-in-cottonwood-canyons-is-at-1999-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/average-traffic-in-cottonwood-canyons-is-at-1999-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Traffic in Cottonwood Canyons is at a 1999 Level?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on the number of visitors that drive the Cottonwood Canyons. I&#8217;ll be writing more, later today, about a report on transportation from 2012 that I&#8217;ve been reading. However, I wanted to share an interesting chart in that report from the Utah Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the average daily traffic in the Cottonwood Canyons during February from 1999-2011. See anything interesting?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/februaryaveragetraffic.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/februaryaveragetraffic.jpg\" alt=\"februaryaveragetraffic\" width=\"713\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/clear.png\" alt=\"clear\" width=\"800\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, <strong>basically there has been no growth in daily traffic<\/strong>. In fact Big Cottonwood Canyon was down about 10% while Little Cottonwood Canyon was up only about 2% (in 12 years). I realize this data is a couple of years old and perhaps some of this is attributable increased busing, but I would never have guessed I&#8217;d see that outcome, especially since the period includes Utah&#8217;s Great Awakening&#8230;AKA the period after the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder if <strong>perhaps instead of trying to manage growth with the Mountain Accord, the powers that be are actually trying to increase growth in the Cottonwood Canyons.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some research on the number of visitors that drive the Cottonwood Canyons. I&#8217;ll be writing more, later today, about a report&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":[20,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483"}],"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=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}