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Show A-3 Whe Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 4-7, 2007 CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-9014 ext.1 I I citynews@parkrecord.com CITY BEAT DON'T SIT ON THE FENCE... Her target: Bonanza Drive HEAD TO THE GRUB STEAK! Purveyor of Great Steak & Seafood for 30 years. 649-8O6O SARAH AUS&PARK RECORD City Hall plans to pay $73,000 for Laynee Jones to recommend Bonanza Drive pedestrian upgrades and create a 20-year blueprint for the street, pictured. Jones, who used to work for the Sundance Film Festival, says she realizes the traffic is bad on Bonanza Drive. consultant and encompassing the entire city, many Parkites said Bonanza Drive was among the most treacherous streets. The interest in Bonanza Drive and-Salt Lake City. By JAY HAMBURGER Jones expects to spend three is expected to widen over the next Of the Record stuff months studying Bonanza Drive, year, as Park City officials finalize Laynee Jones has seen some of and she plans to count the number plans to install a water line underPark City's worst traffic, living in of pedestrians and bicyclists on neath the road. The work is schedthe city for six years, including the road during a four-hour period uled in 2009, and before that project starts. Park City wants to during the 2002 Winter Olympics, on an upcoming Saturday. Jones wants to talk to business- decide whether to do road and and working in a key position people, provide online comment pedestrian improvements at the with the Sundance Film Festival. Jones, an engineer, expects to cards and put up an opinion same time. Already, there has been talk of figure out some of the city's booth. She plans to seek advice pedestrian quandaries as she from a committee that will be significant changes to Bonanza Drive, including an idea to build studies Bonanza Drive, the formed. Details are not decided. clogged road that drivers take "She speaks fluent walkabili- roundabouts at several intersecbetween Prospector and busy des- ty," says Eric DeHaan. the Park tions. Jones says she plans to tinations like Old Town, Park City engineer and an influential research their potential as she City Mountain Resort and Deer figure when City Hall considers develops the 20-year plan. She says roundabouts slow Valley Resort. road and pedestrian improvedown drivers and efficiently hanHer firm, H.W. Lochner. Inc., ments. recently won a $73,000 contract However, he says, city officials dle cars, if the roads leading into from City Hall to recommend must consider budget limitations them have about the same amount Bonanza Drive pedestrian as they review the study's upcom- of traffic. Pedestrians, though, have a tougher time crossing improvements and them than they do crossing a create a 20-year / think everyone's aware Of the "regular intersection, she says. blueprint for the , , , , /. . , i "Roundabouts have certain street. problem. I dOn t knOW hOW mUCh advantages and certain disad"Oh my gosh, it's really difficult more you need to study it. I'd like to see stages," Jones says. 7 to maneuver dur' Changes to Bonanza Drive ing the festival," action. " would have wide-ranging effects she says, recalling on the North of Main district, her trips from the known sometimes as NoMa. film festival headTerry Frank, The street passes some of the quarters in properties in NoMa, and NoMa Business Alliance pivotal Prospector. "I can it intersects with streets used to tell you, I can i get to other spots in the district. relate." Business leaders in the district Her work continues City Hall's ing recommendations. DeHaan recently agreed they want to overall efforts to cut traffic, slow says, as an example, widening engage City Hall as the governdown drivers and make Park City Bonanza Drive could prove too ment considers options for easier to navigate for pedestrians, expensive because City Hall Bonanza Drive. bicyclists and others not driving would need to acquire land from Terry Frank, who owns No cars. Parkites in disparate neigh- property owners along the street. Place Like Home, a Bonanza borhoods are unhappy, and many "We're going to keep a leash Drive store, and is the vice presisee Bonanza Drive as one of the on the recommendations," he dent of the NoMa Business city's most congested streets. says, predicting, afterward, the Alliance, says he wants improveLines of cars are frequently street will resemble the current ments started soon. He wants seen trying to turn onto Bonanza iteration with pedestrian improve- NoMa leaders to talk to Jones, he Drive, and backups at the ments added. "I think it will look sees roundabouts as an appealing Bonanza Drive-Kearns Boulevard a lot like the Bonanza Drive out option, and he talks about restrictintersection are frequent, ft is the there today." ing big trucks from using Bonanza key street in the burgeoning Ideas could include bicycle Drive, forcing them to use Park North of Main district. lanes, more sidewalks, crossings Avenue, Kearns Boulevard and Meanwhile, there are fears that with traffic lights and a tunnel, Deer Valley Drive. the traffic will worsen as more Jones says. They are similar to ' T think everyone's aware of people, escaping Park City's those discussed during an earlier the problem. I don't know how expensive housing market, com- study of walking and bicycling much more you need to study it," mute from the East Side of habits in Park City. In that Frank says. "I'd like to see some Summit County, Wasatch County research, conducted by another action." 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