A plan for a pathway along an important street in Park Meadows is attracting neighborhood attention and drew people to an open house on Tuesday organized by the Park City municipal government. The event, held at the Park City Municipal Athletic Recreation Center, involved a range of topics like pathway improvements, pedestrian upgrades and a bus route that serves parts of Park Meadows and elsewhere. Many of the people at the event appeared to be interested in the pathway improvements planned by the municipal government. According to materials posted at the open house, the pathway improvements involve a section of Little Kate Road. The street effectively stretches through the middle of the heavily populated Park Meadows neighborhood. The materials outlined a Little Kate Road project that involves: A 12-foot-wide pathway that will be designed to accommodate a variety of user groups. The pathway would be on Little Kate Road’s north side and run between Holiday Ranch Loop Road and Lucky John Drive. Improvements to bus stops on Little Kate Road as well as Lucky John Drive. The materials indicated there would be one lane for vehicles traveling in either direction. The work could occur this year or in 2027. Park City says in a fact sheet a pathway was found to be “the safer, more comfortable option as it offers better separation from vehicles and a more consistent user experience for pedestrians, cyclists, and people rolling through the neighborhood.” Park City held an open house at the Park City Municipal Athletic Recreation Center on Tuesday highlighting a variety of topics, including pedestrian improvements and bus routes. The crowd included many from the Park Meadows neighborhood. Credit: Jay Hamburger/Park Record One of the people at the event, Holiday Ranch Loop Road resident Katherine Fagin, said she does not support a pathway that follows a Little Kate Road alignment. A pathway like that, she said, would not curb speeding. “Where you have a straightway, people will speed,” she said. Fagin also said the concept would move pedestrians, bicyclists and people riding bicycles powered by electricity onto the same pathway, creating a dangerous scenario. “We are constantly jumping out of the way,” she said. She supports improvements to bus stops in Park Meadows, though. Donald Seibert and Jeannine Seibert, who live in Park Meadows, submitted a one-page written comment to the municipal government expressing concern. “Presently Little Kate Road has two unidirectional bike paths and a sidewalk. The bicycle paths are primarily used by bike riders. The sidewalk is extensively used by solo walkers, groups of walkers, walkers with strollers, and walkers with one or more dogs. On occasion toddlers and youths ride slowly on the sidewalk, often with a parent,” the Seiberts wrote. “A single multiuse path will no longer separate walkers and bike riders. E-bikes riding on the multiuse trail will create a new hazard for pedestrians that will not be eliminated by making the path wider.” The written comment also said: “The present system works well on Little Kate Rd. … walkers and bicycle riders should be separate. This is what we have now. Conflicts arise when there are no options to separate transportation going at different speeds.” The Seiberts also broached whether there are better options for municipal monies, including the construction of trails. Park City has long pursued improvements to pedestrian and bicyclist routes as part of a broad traffic-fighting effort. The thinking is that more people will choose to walk or ride bicycles when a route is improved rather than drive an automobile. The post Park City plans for a pathway in Park Meadows draw attention from neighborhood appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less