Steamboat Today editorial: Let SnowStang run
Kathy Connell, chairwoman of the State Transportation Commission and a resident of Steamboat Springs, told Steamboat Today this week she has reservations about the inequities inherent to the new “SnowStang” program, which will test the skiing public’s enthusiasm for a bus trip to ski areas primarily up and down the I-70 corridor on the western side of the Eisenhower Tunnel during tryouts Feb 11 and 25.
SnowStang is a play on words based on the Bustang service on the Front Range, which runs buses from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs.
We think Connell’s concerns about SnowStang are valid, but we choose to embrace the bus program, which is intended to help reduce traffic on the interstate between Vail and the western side of metro Denver via the tunnel. The buses will run from Lakewood to A-Basin, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail and Winter Park. They won’t run to more remote ski areas, such as Steamboat Springs, Aspen Telluride and Crested Butte.
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