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Park City Council Considers Quinn's Park And Ride Project

Park City Municipal

Park City Council meets electronically starting with a work session at 5 on Thursday. The city authorized a study of park and ride options for Quinn’s Junction in February of 2019. Since then, a community visioning session has prompted a second look at the proposal of building the transit lot at the junction of 248 and US-40.

Park City Vision 2020 held earlier this year, calls for bold transportation solutions. City Council requested an update on the Quinn’s park-and-ride analysis which has been underway for about a year. Considering three different locations, staff has compiled a report recommending a park-and-ride near the US-40 SR 248 junction. City Manager Matt Dias says the city council will get an update on the project.

“And, we evaluated three locations and made a determination and we have a bunch of federal money, about $2.5 million that’s allocated to be spent on the construction. And I think council member Steve Joyce’s question was, is this really the best location, could we do better and given the lens of the visioning to be bold and be strong and really make a difference in the short term is this the best allocation of those dollars?  And I think within two years we could be delivering more park-and-ride services to the community with better transit service.”

He says the two UDOT parcels offer easier access and the land won’t cost the city anything.

“We have a great partnership with UDOT, and we could lease the land with some type of an easement for a long time. And so, we'd be able to come in, use federal dollars to construct a park-and-ride with virtually little to no land cost at all.”

The city used sales tax revenues to evaluate the three options.

“I believe it’s roughly $150,000 evaluating the three parcels.  I believe we’re about 50% into design. And the parcel that we're actually interested in is the kind of northwestern parcel on that intersection. So, if you're at the intersection of Hwy 40 and 248 there's a kind of a little sliver of land. It's in the staff report. There's a map in the staff report. It’s to the northwestern lot.”

Dias says although the city has scrapped plans to widen 248, the lot would be part of the city’s transit plan to reduce traffic.  It would have a bus stop and leave open the potential to allow shoulder running transit services on 248 once the park-and-ride was operational. Dias says initially they’re only recommending a westbound dedicated transit lane.

“You know within a 12 to 24 month period, that's as much work as we can get done in terms of re-striping and making some improvements along 248, building a new park-and-ride and all the faculties and facilities that go along with that. But again, this is sort of an incremental improvement. I think that we all wish there was a silver bullet when it comes to reducing traffic and congestion in our community.”

They’ve completed about half of the design work and Dias says it’s up to council to decide which site is best. He says they could be shovel ready by this fall.

A link to the staff report

KPCW reporter Carolyn Murray covers Summit and Wasatch County School Districts. She also reports on wildlife and environmental stories, along with breaking news. Carolyn has been in town since the mid ‘80s and raised two daughters in Park City.