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Interconnect Gondola flies through Basin panel


Vail Resorts created a mock-up of an Interconnect Gondola car as the company prepared for talks with officials in Park City and Summit County about a proposal to link Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort with a gondola. The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission on Tuesday approved the gondola. The Planning Commission in Park City is scheduled to consider the proposal at a meeting on Feb. 25. (Courtesy of Vail Resorts)


Jay Hamburger, The Park Record

http://www.parkrecord.com/park_city-...gh-basin-panel

The Snyderville Basin Planning Commission unanimously approved the section of the gondola that will be built in unincorporated Summit County. The gondola's route through the approval process will now head to the Marsac Building.

The gondola is the key part of an ambitious set of upgrades at PCMR and Canyons Resort as the Colorado company links the two properties into one resort. Called the Interconnect Gondola, it will carry eight people per car between a spot close to the bottom of the Silverlode lift at PCMR to the Flatiron lift at Canyons Resort. It will have a midstation unloading point atop Pine Cone Ridge as well...

...Vail Resorts intends to build the gondola this summer in anticipation of an opening for the 2015-2016 ski season. It is the centerpiece of the company's plans to spend more than $50 million on improvements this year as the two properties are linked into one...


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