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Angel Diva
The town and resort worked together to make public bus transportation a priority in Ketchum and Aspen. Same is true for Steamboat Springs.
Another example is Telluride. The construction of the gondola between the town and the mountain was a shared project about 30 years ago. As the replacement will be eventually.
SLC is a mixed bag. One the one hand there is mass transit. On the other, for a long time there weren't enough buses and the time gap could be pretty long so people preferred to drive. Since SLC is a large city with only a minority who enjoy the mountains during the winter or other seasons, many tax payers don't support increasing bus service to the ski resorts.
Tahoe is also a mixed bag from what I can tell. There are public buses but the schedule is limited.
As @RachelV said, few cities in the USA have really good mass transit systems. I grew up riding the buses and subways of NYC, most in Manhattan. Boston, Chicago, San Francisco are the only cities that I think of with comparable mass transit. Meaning not just buses and metro trains but also buses that run every 10-15 minutes all day and into the evening. That means there is no reason to look up a schedule. You just go to the nearest bus stop and can expect one to come by in a short time. It was a shock when we moved to the small university town of Chapel Hill, NC in the 1970s. There weren't any public buses and undergrads had no alternative but to drive if they lived off-campus. Biking was a little impractical for assorted reasons. Took years before a viable bus system was developed. Even so, few people ride it and the town ended up deciding that eliminating fares was the way to make it work in the long run.
Good mass transit and trains for skiing in Europe make the situation completely different than N. America.
Another example is Telluride. The construction of the gondola between the town and the mountain was a shared project about 30 years ago. As the replacement will be eventually.
SLC is a mixed bag. One the one hand there is mass transit. On the other, for a long time there weren't enough buses and the time gap could be pretty long so people preferred to drive. Since SLC is a large city with only a minority who enjoy the mountains during the winter or other seasons, many tax payers don't support increasing bus service to the ski resorts.
Tahoe is also a mixed bag from what I can tell. There are public buses but the schedule is limited.
As @RachelV said, few cities in the USA have really good mass transit systems. I grew up riding the buses and subways of NYC, most in Manhattan. Boston, Chicago, San Francisco are the only cities that I think of with comparable mass transit. Meaning not just buses and metro trains but also buses that run every 10-15 minutes all day and into the evening. That means there is no reason to look up a schedule. You just go to the nearest bus stop and can expect one to come by in a short time. It was a shock when we moved to the small university town of Chapel Hill, NC in the 1970s. There weren't any public buses and undergrads had no alternative but to drive if they lived off-campus. Biking was a little impractical for assorted reasons. Took years before a viable bus system was developed. Even so, few people ride it and the town ended up deciding that eliminating fares was the way to make it work in the long run.
Good mass transit and trains for skiing in Europe make the situation completely different than N. America.
