Related Projects & Programs

Teton County is building on important progress, including the START Bus transit program, the Teton Village Association transportation demand management program, a nation-leading pathways program pushed by strong advocacy, and a successful local effort to land a federal Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant for the Stilson Transit Center. This grant will expand bus and pathway infrastructure. These are examples of local initiatives working to move the dial on sustainable transportation.

Start Bus

Southern Teton Area Rapid Transit (START) is the transit provider to Jackson and Teton County, WY. START operates services within Jackson, throughout Teton County, and connecting commuters from Star Valley and Teton Valley in Idaho. START is expanding services under the guidance of its 2020-2025 START Routing Plan. This includes the addition of START On-Demand, a flexible, small vehicle service that provides free, on-demand transportation using smaller vehicles between the western boundary of Karns Meadow and the Town's eastern limits.

Teton Village Association

The Teton Village Association (TVA) was created in part to mitigate traffic congestion on Highway 390. A robust program that includes paid parking during ski season, parking management in the commercial core of Teton Village, transit incentive programs, hotel partnerships, free parking and shuttle service from Stilson, and subsidies to increase bus frequency have been essential to reducing winter traffic in the WY390 corridor. TVA's program is a shining local example of successful demand management. These same strategies can work for the WY-22 corridor.

Pathways Program

The Town of Jackson, Teton County and strong local advocacy groups such as Friends of Pathways have built and continue to grow a worldclass network of off-street pathways for cycling, walking, rolling, and Nordic skiing. Pathways connect neighborhoods and provide safe, convenient access to schools, employment centers, and other destinations that are integrated with the roadway and transit systems. Pathways are critical to help meet local goals of 10% of all trips by walking and cycling.

Teton Mobility Corridor Improvements

The Teton Mobility Corridor Improvements (TMCI) project is the result of stakeholder and local government efforts to tap competitive federal funds (BUILD grant program) to improve our local transit systems. The grant will provide funding for over a dozen projects that contribute to better public transit, pathways connection, and safety in the WY-22 and ID33 corridor.