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Show Recent Snow Storms Hamper Bus Service Regularly scheduled city bus service to the Main Street area was temporarily curtailed last week after drivers found it impossible to negotiate the busy street without incedent or accident. Police Chief Mike Crowjey: ordered service- to the aWa $ abreviate and sometimes abandoned after the busses were involved in aUleast jsix minor traffic accidents in the wake of heavy, , recent winter storms. At times last week, busses ventured only as far as Fourth Street before turning back down Swede Alley while at other times, particularly during peak evening hours, passengers were deposited and collected at the foot of Main Street only. The irregular schedule stranded unsuspecting tourists tour-ists who complained loudly at City Hall along with lodge owners and other Main Street businessmen. City Transportation Director Jan Svlvestor told The Record that snow piled high along the sides of the street by plows during the day caused people to park as far. as four feet from the curb; a parking pattern which at times reduces traffic to one lane. "It wasn't that the street was too slick or icy... there were just parts where our drivers couldn't squeeze through," she said. The accidents for the most part involved busses scraping the sides of parked cars, wrenching offside mirrors and damaging ski racks on the sides of the city vehicles. "We couldn't continue to damage other cars and our busses at the same time," Ms. Sylvester rationalized. Both City Manager Wayne, ivlatthews and Jan Sylvester" admit that'in those circumstances circum-stances there is no solution to ; the; prpblen) other than . clearing clear-ing cars" from 4he street during heavy storms to allow city crews to remove the snow. Both also admit that that solution is impractical and virtually impossible. Snow is regularly cleared from Main Street after 2:00am when by law, all vehicles . must be off the street. Jan Sylvester apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the interrupted schedule, add ing that she hopes the problem will largely disappear next season when the Swede Alley parking area is expanded expand-ed and perhaps a new traffic circulation pattern for Main Street is adopted. Meanwhile, the system, which is a pioneer step as far as small Utah communities are concerned, continues to operate oper-ate this year much more effectively and reliably than in past years. "It's something that can't be perfect overnight," over-night," says Wayne Matthews, Mat-thews, "and if people will just be a little patient through these unforseen problems, we'll soon have a system all of Park City can rely on and be proud of." -.'::! ....... 4 . , , i- t : , !c I i '' |