Summit County has been working on a new transportation center that will be behind the library (Richens building) in Kimball Junction.\u00a0I believe the county\u00a0and Park City hope this $3 million+ effort will enable buses to run between Kimball Junction and Park City more quickly. At the 60,000 foot level I suppose providing a dedicated location for buses to pick up people makes sense. However, I was talking with a friend who still couldn’t wrap her head around the benefits. She kept saying, “Will it be as fast as a car? Will it be as fast as a car? Will it be as fast as a car?”<\/p>\n
The truth is that if they want locals to use it, the trip from one’s house in their car, to a park and ride, to get on a bus, to the transit center in KJ, to their\u00a0final destination had better be as fast as a car. As our English teachers know, when\u00a0writing,\u00a0a comma indicates a pause, and that’s the problem here. It’s hard to fathom in the next 5 years (with or without a transit center) that people will generally get to their destinations as fast as they would in car. Every pause in my sentence above means a pause for the commuter. Sure, on a random Saturday\u00a0during Sundance, it may be true\u00a0that a bus is faster (if \u00a0dedicated bus lanes are developed) than a car… but not generally.<\/p>\n
If our citizens don’t make public transport part of their routine, it will never catch on. That’s why I worry that the KJ Transit Center will just become a $3 million boondoggle. \u00a0Sure, a couple million\u00a0of that money is provided by federal funds…but it’s still our money.<\/p>\n
So, will I see you at the new bus transit center? Probably not… because I won’t be there.<\/p>\n
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