Yesterday, the family and I decided we were\u00a0going skiing at the Canyons. There was a Winter Storm Warning, which I suppose, is the perfect time to ski.<\/p>\n
I asked, “should we take the bus?”. I feared traffic. I feared walking a mile to the Cabriolet lift with two small children.<\/p>\n
We decided YES … as long as we could meet the bus schedule.<\/p>\n
We decided to drive into\u00a0the Kimball Junction Transit Center from Jeremy Ranch and take the bus from there. There is always plenty of parking there and it avoids the painful route back to Jeremy Ranch through Pinebrook.<\/p>\n
We imagined the ride in, the short walk from the 7-Eleven to the Cabriolet lift. Heaven.<\/p>\n
So when does the bus arrive at the Kimball Junction Transit Center? Good question. I pulled out my trusty “My Stop Mobile” app provided by Park City that shows transit schedules, where each bus is, etc. I pulled up “Stops” to see when the bus arrives at the transit center. It said the outbound stops would be at 23 and 53 after the hour. Outbound didn’t seem quite right… it seems I wanted to head IN\u00a0to Park City.<\/p>\n
After a few minutes fumbling, I went to “Routes” on the application. From previous research, I knew I wanted the 7 Pink West bus even though I wasn’t really heading west. From there I zoomed and finally found what appeared to be the Kimball transit center. There are two icons there almost on top of each other. I found that by zooming way in and then clicking on each of them, one of them seems to be outbound and one seems to be inbound. Ahhh, inbound seems right. By clicking on it, I found the bus stopped at 43 and 13 after the hour.<\/p>\n
Ok, now we knew when we needed to be at the transit center and we headed out.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, we missed the bus by about 1 minute. We saw it pulling into the transit center and knew there wouldn’t be enough time to get on it. Missing the bus was our fault… or we could have waited a half an hour for the next bus. Or maybe there is another bus going to the Canyons that would have been workable but I have no idea how I would know that.<\/p>\n
So, we drove to the Canyons and found semi-close public parking. It was a little walk\u00a0but not as long as I had worried about. We were still at least 10 minutes ahead of when the bus would arrive (It winds through neighborhoods between the transit center and Canyons).<\/p>\n
The drive and parking weren’t too bad.<\/p>\n
Leaving the resort, we had no problem with traffic either. In the back of my head I also thought, “thank god I didn’t have to plan leaving based upon the bus schedule of every 30 minutes.” One less headache.<\/p>\n
When will I consider riding the bus again? Maybe next year once I forget this experience. Why would I go through that effort? Maybe if I want to go to PCMR on a Saturday, when parking fills up by 7:00AM.<\/p>\n
So, as a reader, you might\u00a0take this as further whining about the buses. That’s not the intent.\u00a0In this case, I wanted to highlight the issues, and there are a lot of them to be solved, with an average Parkite in Snyderville Bason taking the bus to go skiing. If you are on a bus route in Park Meadows I could see how the bus might\u00a0work for you. If you rarely ride the bus from the ‘burbs, not so much.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of moving parts, that don’t make a lot of sense, and are hard to maneuver. \u00a0People don’t like hard.<\/p>\n
I went to extraordinary lengths to try it out. I believe most people would have quit when they couldn’t have found the inbound timetable or they would have written it off forever when they confused the inbound for outbound route and were told they had the wrong bus and they had to wait longer.<\/p>\n
As I think about the experience, I think there is more to it than the plans to increase bus frequency using the sales tax increase. A frequency increase MUST\u00a0happen but there is more to it than that, if the city and county want to get me out of my car and on to a bus.<\/p>\n
The whole process has to be re-thought if our government actually wants to substantially alter adoption rates. They have to make it easy AND give me a reason to ride the bus (maybe those incentives Ellen\u00a0Sherk wrote about).<\/p>\n
However, it looks like they lost me for 2017. There is aways next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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