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Gehrke: Here’s why adding a lane to Little Cottonwood is an idea worth studying

When my son flew home from a trip to visit his grandparents last weekend, he met a guy who was coming to Salt Lake City so he could get one more day of skiing in at Snowbird.

Since it’s June, he shouldn’t have too many headaches getting up and down the canyon. The same obviously isn’t true in, say, January.

On a busy powder weekend, as many as 21,000 people a day are trying to cram themselves into the narrow canyon. Most drive, snarling traffic and clogging parking.

Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake Tribune staff portraits. Robert Gehrke.
Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake Tribune staff portraits.