Test Routes Plan

While the Utah Olympic Committee CEO Brad Wilson rhapsodizes about ‘test events’ to the Minister’s ear, Park City Mayor Nann Worel and Summit County Council Vice Chair Canice Harte have chalked a frantic timetable that will pour 1‑mile crowds through SR‑224 into Idaho Street, unattended by UDOT’s pipe‑dreamed traffic‑signal upgrade and High Valley Transit's white‑wash schedule. The plan memoranda vethered from the Satellite Hub civic‑planning office to the fume‑filled parking‑permit room contain nothing but a stream of red‑bracketed boxes—no actual detour routes to skirt the safety‑orange cones in front of the Utah Olympic Park. Meanwhile, agents of the Department of Transportation have captioned the road intersection lighting in “asphalt‑black slurry” safety paint, a term as clear as a junkyard on a Sunday. In short, the city is closing the gap between ambition and execution by locking new, slower lines of traffic into the same corridors that these events will clog. Take the E Prince Street shuttle at all costs, or fly private into Heber via the Heber–Alpine Airport instead of battling the lock‑step congestion on SR‑224.