Sidestep the Cones

Back in the rear‑view of my Range Rover, the tide of safety‑orange cones on SR‑40 turns the sleepy suburb into a quotidian circus. The Park City Municipal Corp’s “efficiency‑first” parking ordinance—signed by a board that only scratched the bylaws after Mayor Alice Jensen’s lukewarm applause—still forces commuters to queue for ten minutes each morning in a lane that appears forever on the “severe congestion” list. Meanwhile, UDOT’s quarterly inspection memo pledges a ring‑road upgrade that will not activate until the city’s pothole schedule, stalled by a fiscal‑quarter delay, gets stamped. SCSO’s patrol cars keep a watchful eye, but the new ordinance about a bypass around Kearns Blvd, described as a “streamlined traffic flow,” is a clear reversal of the 2017 measure that cut the bottleneck. Meanwhile, High Valley Transit still ad‑verts bus routes that detour via the Hudson Mountains, an extra 15 minutes of needless travel. Honestly, if you want to shave minutes, take the Richardson Flat bus and avoid the new round‑about at the motor‑way’s intersection, where the Department of Transportation has misplaced the cones.