Hard to get people to buy in IMO.
I heard UDOT only made 10,000 stickers for the general public and 6,000 for rental car companies. The local skier population is probably 5-10X that. When i got around to getting stickers, most of the tire shops I called were out of the stickers and told me they weren't getting more. So, that explains the lack of vehicles with stickers in the wildcat lot to me. As crankplank noted above, traction law enforcement at the mouth adds to the morning traffic and having a sticker doesn't seem to get you through the checkpoints any faster. Which is another reason not to bother getting a sticker.
Also while it is great to make sure everyone driving up the canyon has a vehicle properly ready for winter driving conditions, the biggest factor in traffic congestion in the canyons is the people. That is, people still suck at driving in general and their tires can only help so much.
That said, general sentiment around canyon traffic this season seems to be positive.
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