Summit County Council Member Roger Armstrong says he was gratified that their group held a joint meeting with the Wasatch County Council on Wednesday.
Armstrong says that meeting with them, on joint problems like transit, can lead them to jointly find solutions.
During Armstrong’s interview with KPCW, we asked him what traffic pressures might turn up in Wasatch county. Could they see Carmageddon?
He noted, though, that their road system is different from that in the Park City area.
“The Basin is a bit unique, because we have two main roads coming in and out. During heavy ski days, those wind up getting clogged substantially, and even during regular ski days, we can see the load-out be quite slow. Wasatch County is perhaps a little bit different. I don’t know about their entire road system. But I do know that as Mayflower builds out, and given the plans for that area, I think demand down there will sharply increase with the 17-20,000 units that are going in, in the Jordanelle area, as that gets built-out over the years.”
He said that, compared to Summit’s history, Wasatch is in a good position.
“They’ve got the challenges that we had to tackle here in the Basin from a really remarkably aggressive growth pattern, from the time of the Olympics, maybe just before the Olympics, until now, that rapidly increased those pressures, and forced us to respond on a reactive basis rather than a proactive, forward-looking basis. And I think that the advantage that Wasatch County has now is that they’re in a situation where they can anticipate where some of those impacts may occur. And they can start phasing in some of their solutions.”
