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09-18-2019, 03:39 PM #826
The Independence Lake/Disney Project would've been one for the books- not much documentation left on that one. I worked on the EIR from the FS side of the fence, fall of '76 vintage I think (until winter drove us out of the woods). Plan was for a Disney themed mini-Whistler village on the flats where the outlet streams are. Lifts going up the South face of Mt. Lola and the North face of Carpenter Ridge would be served by a steam train around the lake at lake level, with covered open sided cars to transport skiers.
As I recall the crux move that killed it was the state/county would require the 17 mile stretch of 89N be a 4 lane "freeway" (bridges included, at Disney expense), or the state was no go on the project. The end."if you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind..."
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09-18-2019, 04:54 PM #827
Wat? Linky plz.
LR, I'd love to see it!
wolfy, that story is ridiculous. 4 lanes! more info: https://www.dizavenue.com/2016/07/th...ly-talked.htmlsproing!
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09-18-2019, 05:54 PM #828
Oh yeah! The train idea. I remember reading about that now.
IIRC, they wanted to do a cog railway or similar all the way up the existing Mineral King Road and have it be snowbound. Not surprising that Disney was involved with SB too in terms of the snowbound/true Euro-style village too.
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09-19-2019, 12:43 AM #829
http://tahoetransportation.org/blog/...ing-solutions/
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09-19-2019, 08:09 AM #830
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09-19-2019, 08:57 AM #831
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09-19-2019, 10:28 AM #832
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09-19-2019, 11:57 AM #833
Likely not a pipe dream
They gotta do something to improve roads, traffic, and transportation. The area has some big traffic and transportation problems that need $$ thrown at them to develop solutions.
From a natural hazard standpoint, what happens if there’s a wildfire in the basin near a development, over Labor Day weekend or a dry thanksgiving time, during a red flag wind event? wintertime reasonable worst case: large EQ during a big winter (roofs overloaded) in the middle of a big winter event over a holiday weekend.
Where and how are people going to get out of there and how are first responders going to get to the affected areas?
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09-19-2019, 12:49 PM #834
I'm fine paying a few extra bucks every time I drive into the basin. With gas costs what's a few extra dollars on top of it? Just so long as they do it right and don't make the traffic shit show even worse.
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09-20-2019, 07:12 AM #835
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09-20-2019, 07:39 AM #836Registered Useless
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Made me laugh. I can just imagine the ‘mechanized backcountry users’ revving vintage two strokes in support of this notion
Would be a meaningful place for wilderness designation though, you’re right
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09-20-2019, 07:44 AM #837Registered Useless
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As for tolls I feel like 50 and 80 could handle something like that. I can only imagine the joy of facilitating that on 89 or 431 in the winter
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09-20-2019, 09:41 AM #838
Through the link that I posted, the short list is:
-cordon pricing – basin entry fee (it looks like those “scored” highest in earlier evaluations),
-vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee,
-tolling,
-zoned transportation user fee, and
-vacancy tax.
That link describes their next phase of evaluation of that list of 5, “third tier screening,” which will look at the following:
-revenue potential
-admin effectiveness
-political feasibility/public acceptance
-fungibility across used/jurisdictions
-impacts to regional economy
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09-20-2019, 10:44 AM #839
Still waiting for that Gondola/Tram from Silver Lake to Kirkwood
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09-20-2019, 10:59 AM #840Registered User
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How about a gondola to SF?
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09-20-2019, 11:01 AM #841Registered User
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09-20-2019, 02:10 PM #842
They’re working on it in increments, that little gondola elevator at the sales force building is a proof of concept test.
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09-20-2019, 03:52 PM #843
Don't laugh too hard. The Truckee Donner Land Trust is working on acquiring Frog Lake and purchased lower Carpenter Valley. The Trust has openly discussed purchasing the land necessary to create a Castle Peak Wilderness. As far as snowmobiles go the road to Castle Pass is already closed to snowmobiles. The trail to Castle Pass is the PCT and is closed to bikes.
As far as what I said about the money being in real estate--I should have said that investment money is going into real estate development. Doesn't mean that the effort has always been profitable.
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