Elected leaders and ski resort officials shared their thoughts on UDOT's decision to move forward with a gondola through Little Cottonwood Canyon. Here's what they had to say.
Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson said the gondola could take decades to complete, and Wednesday’s decision is not set in stone.
“To me, investment in the canyon needs to be appropriate,” Wilson said. “We need to make sure that our environment is not impacted and that, really, we’re being wise in the use of our taxpayers’ dollars.” The mayor stopped short of calling the environmental review process unfair but said she would have liked to have seen an agency other than UDOT take the lead on the analysis. Voices at the local level, she said, were left out.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall also issued a statement opposing the gondola. “I’m still deeply concerned about the significant risk the gondola poses with its construction, operations and its potential to induce visitation and development,” the statement said. “We hold hope that through the phased implementation of other traffic congestion interventions, UDOT might be able to achieve the same goal through less impactful measures.
“People are trying to gain access to recreate,” Fisher said. “And the state is ignoring dispersed recreation and investing in industrialized recreation at the expense of a watershed, and the expense of our public lands.”
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