The possibility of someday building a gondola linking the Main Street core and Deer Valley Resort has been one of the high-profile aspects of the talks about the future of the shopping, dining and entertainment strip.The thinking is people would opt for an aerial route between the two destinations, something that would reduce traffic.The concept of a gondola has not been finalized, but there were early questions from the public about the possibility during a Park City Council meeting on Thursday. The elected officials received wide-ranging testimony about the future of the Main Street core and only a small portion of the input dealt with a gondola. The comments, though, were notable with aerial transit being an ambitious element of the Main Street discussions. The talks have included a concept of a gondola linking the Main Street core with Deer Valley.Brad Olch, a former three-term mayor of Park City who left office in early 2002, addressed the gondola concept in his testimony on Thursday.“Putting the gondola from the bottom of Deer Valley to the Brew Pub parking lot makes no sense. Why not put it to the transportation center and, you know, start solving some of the transportation problems here in the city,” he said, an apparent reference to the Old Town transit center on Swede Alley.Olch also mentioned a possibility outside the Main Street core, on City Hall land off the intersection of Kearns Boulevard and Bonanza Drive. That location, he said, could appeal to various drivers.“You could intercept people coming in off 248. If you live in Prospector, if you live in Park Meadows, if you live in Thaynes, even where I’m living now, to be able to go, come to Main Street at night and be able to park there and jump on the gondola to come up to Main Street,” he said.Olch added: “If you had skis in the morning you could use that — get on the gondola, go to the transportation center, switch gondolas, go to the bottom of Deer Valley or get off and walk across the street to the Town Lift. To me that makes a lot of sense.”Another speaker on Thursday, though, cast doubts on aerial transit. John Kenworthy, a Main Street business owner and former member of the Park City Planning Commission, said a “gondola doesn’t work.”Kenworthy said the concept of a gondola route following Deer Valley Drive dates to an earlier engineering study. He said the community has “got to stop the nonsense with these gondolas that don’t work and we’ve got to focus on the one that does — Town Lift. There’s no way Brew Pub works.”“It’s not going to work. There are way too many obstacles, OK. So let’s get over the Brew Pub being a landing spot for a gondola,” Kenworthy said.The idea of creating a traffic-fighting aerial transit system in the Park City area has been discussed on and off for years. None of the earlier rounds of discussions progressed to formal plans for a gondola system, though.The post Park City leaders receive disparate comments about possibility of traffic-fighting gondola appeared first on Park Record.