One Train – Seven Ski Resorts
A light rail line will be built along Wasatch Boulevard. The Ski Train would enter a tunnel near the chain up area on 210 before the road heads into the ground under Little Cottonwood Canyon. The train line would run in a tunnel up Little Cottonwood Canyon with underground stations at both Alta and Snowbird ski resorts. The line would then continue on with an underground station at Brighton. A second tunnel would take skiers form Brighton to Solitude vie a travellator (moving walkway). A large underground network of travellators and escalators would move the people from the train to the ski resorts.
From Brighton the line would continue underground and exit between Deer Valley and Park City Ski Resorts. There would be stops at Deer Valley, Park City and Park City North ski resorts.
The line would run through Park City and along highway 224 towards Kimball Junction. Another line would be built in Parleys Canyon from Salt Lake, with stops at Kimball Junction/Olympic Park, Woodward Ski Area/Jeremy Ranch, Summit Park and Mountain Dell.
With the train entering a tunnel near the base of Little Cottonwood Canyon and remaining in the tunnel until it reaches Deer Valley, the train line would be void of the effects of snow on the train lines and it would also stop any effect on the surface of the canyons or to the watershed area. There would be no snow removal required and there would be very few expected delays due to snow. Trains would be immune to avalanche control or snow levels.
A light trail line running from near Southtown Mall along 9400 south will connect from Front Runner to the Ski Train loop. Another extension would connect the existing TRAX line in Sugarhouse to the Ski Train loop.
The majority of ski resort users would be expected to catch the train and this would be expected to save the majority of vehicle traffic from entering the canyons.
Any water collected in the tunnel would be pumped into the Metropolitan Water Treatment Facility, treated and used as drinking water.
This will be a huge project, but the increasing numbers of people visiting the ski resorts will become a huge problem in the future.
