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Show Wednesday, January 28, 1998 The Park Record A-5 City Beat CITY EDITOR Jay Hamburger 649-9014 ext 1 1 1 A smooth year for the festival' New shuttles and additional buses helped Sundance Film Festival-goers get to venues by Jay Hamburger OF THE RECORD STAFF Park City, after two weeks at the center of the entertainment world, is turning back into its old self. This year's festival, though, was quite a success, according to several Parkites responsible for organizing the festival. "It was the smoothest festival I've been a part of," said Teri Orr, executive director of the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, who has been associated with the Sundance Film Festival in some capacity since 1981. "They took the advice of people in Park City." This year's festival saw a new venue - the Eccles Center - an old venue refurbished - the Egyptian Theatre and a new transportation plan, all of which, organizers said, made the 1998 edition of the Sundance Film Festival such a success for the 10,000 to 12.000 visitors that were expected for Sundance. Park City Special Events Manager Melissa Call said the transportation plan included about a dozen Sundance shuttles, a special city bus and still more express shuttles from the Sundance headquarters at the Shadow Ridge Condominium Hotel near Park City Mountain Resort. "The new transportation system sys-tem made a huge difference," Call said. "We've had some (additional transportation) in the past, but they probably doubled dou-bled the number of shuttles (this year.)" Call also said this year, the city used the Main Street Trolley on Main Street rather than a city bus, which, she said, created gridlock on the street. The bus system also lessened the number of vehicles on Park City's roads. Call said. "Once people figured out how to work the bus system, they got out of their cars," she said. The venues also helped the festival, Call said. "Having the new venue (the Eccles Center) and the remodeled remod-eled Egyptian Theatre just made the festival," she said. Between the transportation system and the new venues, Call said crowds seemed smaller than they actually were. "Last year's festival was probably prob-ably the worst ever because of gridlock . . . ," she said. "It was a mess." The larger venues also enabled more Park City and Summit County residents to attend film screenings. "Every local who wanted a ticket could get one, and that's a first in years," Call said. Parking during the festival could have created a problem at the Eccles Center during the days Park City High School was in session because students, faculty fac-ulty and staff of the school were competing with film-goers for parking spots, but, according to Orr and PCHS Principal Hal Smith, there were no significant problems. "We didn't want to inconvenience inconve-nience the school district," Call said. "We didn't want to impact the school district." Orr added: "Parking during school was just not an issue." Smith said the only traffic snag at the Eccles center occurred when an electronic sign that directed people to the correct cor-rect parking lot broke, creating a "minor problem." Call said parking problems and isolated transportation problems were also present in other parts of the city. She said some who were going to the festival headquarters headquar-ters at Shadow Ridge parked in PCMR's large parking lot and walked to Shadow Ridge, taking up parking spots that could have been used by PCMR customers. The Shadow Ridge headquarters, headquar-ters, though, provided more room for festival staff and organizers. orga-nizers. Call estimated that Sundance staffers had three times as much room as they had at past festivals, when the headquarters head-quarters was at the Kimball Art Center on Park Avenue. Other people attempted to provide unauthorized taxi and shuttle service in Park City. "Sometimes they just threw a light up on their car," Call said. "They took some business from local companies." Police Blotter Ski-related thefts and traffic accidents all reported to Park City police last week On Sunday January 25 at 3:09 p.m. a person called the Police Department from an airplane and reported that her husband, who had a restraining order against him, Was "breaking' into a Park Meadows residence with a hammer.' ham-mer.' According to police, her son had contacted her. The husband took property and damaged the residence. Other incidents reported to the Police Department last week included: On Sunday, Jan. 25 at 7:44 p.m. a $2,000 digital camera was reported report-ed stolen from a Prospector-area building. A purse containing $500 in cash, credit cards and a driver's license was reported lost on Kearns Boulevard by a Sherman, Calif., woman. At 2:03 a.m. a 20-year-old person per-son was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs on S.R. 224. On Saturday, Jan. 24 at 10:57 p.m. a hit-and-run traffic accident was reported to police near the intersection of Lucky John Drive and Little Kate Road. At 8:56 p.m. an act of lewdness was reported on Main Street. An assault was reported in the gymnasium at the Racquet Club at 6:25 p.m. The conflict was resolved. At 5:08 p.m. the theft of a laptop computer was reported at a Prospector-area hotel. Someone reported to police at 3:22 p.m. that a person had attempted to break into an office at the Treasure Mountain Inn on upper Main Street.'1 The person" reported that a door in the building had been damaged. At 4:16 p.m. a report came into police that $400 in cash was missing from the break room of a Park City lodge. A $1,000 necklace was reported lost by a California person. The person told police it might have been lost in the Eccles Center. At 11 a.m. a Rapid City, S.D., man reported to police that a $430 snowboard had been stolen from Park City Mountain Resort. 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