Taylorsville • Relax, the gondola war will not be coming to Big Cottonwood Canyon.

The Utah Department of Transportation on Wednesday released its plan for calming congestion on State Route 190 through the canyon, the home of two of Utah’s most popular ski areas and a thoroughfare for fall leaf-peepers. The gist of the plan, laid out in the agency’s much-anticipated environmental assessment, is this:

More buses. More tolls. No gondola.

UDOT proposed running buses more frequently in the winter — every 10 to 15 minutes to start, with a goal of every 5 to 7 minutes by 2050. It also would like to create ways for buses to escape the Red Snake of tail lights created when automobiles pack the canyon’s mostly two-lane roads.

One suggestion made by the agency was to build a bus priority lane o

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