In the fall of 2006, Utah State Senator Carlene Walker a Cottonwood Heights Republican, member of the Senate transportation committee and proponent of private investment in toll roads tried to advance her idea on a so-called AltaBright Tunnel and CottonPark Interconnect that would join the three canyons into what some called "one 7-resort Megaplex."The plan was to use money from tolls, federal funds and special finance districts to build a single-bore tunnel from connecting Alta and Brighton that would cost an estimated $250 million, and an all-season road to Park City that would cost from $50 million to $150 million . The proposed road and tunnel would have connected Deer Valley, The Canyons, Park City Mountain Resort, Snowbird, Alta, Brighton and Solitude. The concept would have allowed skiers to drive between mountaintop resorts instead of up and down canyon roads or Interstate 80, already subject to heavy traffic.
On November 3, 2006, 25 of the most influential people in the Utah ski industry were invited to a meeting at the governor s office to discuss the proposal and nothing about it has been heard since...
Bob Theobald's Tram System - 1990
During the seventies and eighties, Bob Theobald a former freestyle ski champion expanded a lot of energy and money ($200,000 by his own words) to advance a proprietary, self propelled lift system composed of 28 forty-passenger trams that would have travelled from Park City all the way to Snowbird and back, via Solitude, Brighton and Alta.
The one-way ride would have taken 40 minutes while the entire cost for the infrastructure was estimated at that time to stand at $34 million. This unique lift would have been built totally in the U.S.A. According to Theobald, some of the biggest problems in the way of his plan were the local resorts that didn't know how to allocate lift ticket revenues and the Salt Lake City water authority that ran in fierce opposition to his plan. He abandoned the idea in 1990...
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