The Wasatch Front Regional Council voted Thursday to approve a new 27-year regional transportation plan that seeks to move forward over 1,000 transportation projects by 2050, including a gondola for Little Cottonwood Canyon.
SALT LAKE CITY — Members of the Wasatch Front Regional Council voted Thursday to approve a newthat seeks to move forward over 1,000 transportation projects by 2050, including a gondola for Little Cottonwood Canyon.
The first phase is increased bus service, tolling/congestion-based pricing, and roadway improvements that could begin as early as this year. The second phase, currently scheduled to begin in the 2030s, calls for avalanche snow sheds and trailhead improvements. A gondola and base station parking are part of the third phase of the plan, currently scheduled to begin in the 2040s.
But Thursday's vote had some significance toward the project. Carl Fisher, the executive director of the environmental nonprofit Save Our Canyons, called it a "critical step" toward allowing UDOT to add the gondola to its record of decision. That's why he and dozens of others came to the meeting to plead with the council to drop it from its long-range transportation plan.
"We tell ourselves that we live in a democracy, that democracy ... and the preference of the people are supposed to have some sway. With to the gondola, the will of the people has been expressed in comments in the and they are overwhelmingly against it," he said. "It remains on the books apparently for bureaucratic reasons."
They argued that when Little Cottonwood Canyon closes because of traffic, it has a ripple effect where other resorts are flooded across the Wasatch region. "I feel today, perhaps the minority , but I believe I stand with the majority with concerns about this," she said.
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