Park City Mayor Nann Worel and city councilmembers cut the ribbon on the bus stops Tuesday afternoon.
They’re some of the city’s most visible stops, and the city’s most trafficked, City Engineer John Robertson said.
“This first started out with a 2018 analysis of all of our bus stops, looking for ADA compliance issues, access issues,” Robertson said, “just trying to improve our entire system.”
So in addition to larger shelters, gear racks and new information screens, the bus stops have expanded sidewalks and curb cuts.
Construction took about a year, in part because the city found old electrical infrastructure beneath the sidewalk that was more complicated to remove than anticipated. But now the bus stops have fiber optic connections which transmit bus arrival time information.
The infrastructure costs contributed to the overall price tag of $1 million for each Fresh Market bus stop.
Park City covered the initial planning costs, but the construction itself was funded by Summit County sales taxes and a grant from the COVID-era CARES act.
Another grant, over $7 million, will help fund additional improvements to more than 70 bus stops around Park City in the coming years.
