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Paying to park in the East
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MissySki
Angel Diva
If you get an Ikon, hope you can make it up to Sunday River sometime! Several divas ski there all the time, and we always love meeting more divas.
Paid parking makes me so cranky, but it's because places always jump straight to paid parking instead of doing any of a million other things they could do to try to get fewer people to drive to the mountain.
Have you considered... convenient shuttle routes to popular lodging? A seasonal bus system that actually runs enough to be useful? Real incentives for carpooling? Perhaps give consistent carpoolers meaningful pass / ticket discounts instead of free socks (A-Basin does free socks, it's so ridiculous). A place to get dropped off by shuttles / buses that isn't a long slog to the lifts? Free lockers for people who don't take their car to the mountain (so you can easily wear your Transpack on the bus and boot up at the mountain)?
Paid parking would be palatable to me if they used the parking fees to subsidize any of the above things. IMHO when mountains contribute to a local traffic fiasco these kinds of things are the least they can do, but apparently the mountains don't agree with me.
Paid parking basically says to me "we want more money", not "we care about fixing our parking issues".
Have you considered... convenient shuttle routes to popular lodging? A seasonal bus system that actually runs enough to be useful? Real incentives for carpooling? Perhaps give consistent carpoolers meaningful pass / ticket discounts instead of free socks (A-Basin does free socks, it's so ridiculous). A place to get dropped off by shuttles / buses that isn't a long slog to the lifts? Free lockers for people who don't take their car to the mountain (so you can easily wear your Transpack on the bus and boot up at the mountain)?
Paid parking would be palatable to me if they used the parking fees to subsidize any of the above things. IMHO when mountains contribute to a local traffic fiasco these kinds of things are the least they can do, but apparently the mountains don't agree with me.
Paid parking basically says to me "we want more money", not "we care about fixing our parking issues".
Jenny
Angel Diva
My top two, right here, amended with giving me an actual PLACE to boot up, so I don’t just have to find floor space somewhere. We have that here, and in the places I’ve been out east, but it seems to be hidden from me in some other lodges.
skinnyfootskis
Angel Diva
yup :(
Paid parking makes me so cranky, but it's because places always jump straight to paid parking instead of doing any of a million other things they could do to try to get fewer people to drive to the mountain.
Have you considered... convenient shuttle routes to popular lodging? A seasonal bus system that actually runs enough to be useful? Real incentives for carpooling? Perhaps give consistent carpoolers meaningful pass / ticket discounts instead of free socks (A-Basin does free socks, it's so ridiculous). A place to get dropped off by shuttles / buses that isn't a long slog to the lifts? Free lockers for people who don't take their car to the mountain (so you can easily wear your Transpack on the bus and boot up at the mountain)?
Paid parking would be palatable to me if they used the parking fees to subsidize any of the above things. IMHO when mountains contribute to a local traffic fiasco these kinds of things are the least they can do, but apparently the mountains don't agree with me.
Okemo already has a shuttle system in place and yes, it drops skiers right off at the lodge. But paid parking still makes me cranky. All it does it make skiing more accessible for rich people and less convenient -- and accessible -- for the average person. Skiing is already perceived as elitist, and this makes it even more so. To me, the whole thing simply indicates that Vail is more interested in making a few bucks than in maintaining the goodwill of its customers.
