Sunday, May 19, 2019

Traffic gridlock at ski resorts

Whether it's in America or in Europe, getting visitors to ski resorts without having them needing to drive a car is the $64 million dollar question.

Most resorts that have grown organically, and were not planned as places where cars were banned, are grappling with the idea of getting rid of the need for visitors to drive in, and so far, they've found no clear cut solutions or innovations that seem truly satisfying. Park City falls in that category and so do its neighboring ski resorts like Alta, Snowbird, Brighton and Solitude.

Same thing in my home valley of Morzine, France. Cars have become an evil that proves very hard to displace or replace. High capacity people-movers should be the solution but they all seem always too expensive, hard to locate, unsightly or a combination of these three flaws.

I'll try in the blog to examine the problem and propose some idea for uncongesting traffic at our ski resorts once and for all. At least I'll try, so stay tuned.

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