City Hall and Park City Mountain Resort recently tested one way to better manage traffic on a road heavily traveled by skiers and snowboarders driving to the resort.

The weekend test may have helped, a Park City official said afterward, but the results remained uncertain as the people involved prepare to discuss the test at a meeting next week.

A stretch of Lowell Avenue as it passes PCMR was turned into a one-way road during the mornings of March 7 and March 8. The restrictions were in place from 7 a.m. until noon each day between the Lowell Avenue intersections with Silver King Drive and Shadow Ridge Road. The stretch of road was restricted to southbound traffic only, which is the direction toward Old Town.

The test was held as officials at City Hall and PCMR consider ways to combat traffic. Traffic complaints have long been prevalent in Park City, but they have seemed more pronounced during the 2014-2015 ski season. There are regular backups at the two mountain resorts inside Park City.

Brooks Robinson, the senior transportation planner at City Hall, said the one-way restriction helped the traffic situation, but some drivers did not obey the signs. Drivers are “creatures of habit,” Robinson said. He observed Lowell Avenue from 7:30 a.m. until noon on the Saturday of the test.

“The problem was you still had people totally ignore the signs,” Robinson said.

One-way signs prohibiting northbound traffic were placed on barricades on Lowell Avenue and a sign restricting right-hand turns was put at the intersection of Lowell Avenue and Shadow Ridge Road. There were two ‘Do Not Enter’ signs put on Lowell Avenue. At one point on Sunday, a one-way sign was turned in the wrong direction, seeming to create a bit of confusion.

During a time on Sunday, vehicles appeared to be flowing easily through the one-way zone. It was not a period of heavy traffic, though.

During his observation, Robinson said, he noticed that drivers remained in the right lane on Lowell Avenue even though the one-way restriction allowed them to use both lanes. He also said he watched some drivers searching for a parking spot in the PCMR lower lots turn in the wrong direction on Lowell Avenue.

Robinson said another test is not planned during the current ski season. He said information will be gathered from PCMR officials and the Park City Police Department. A meeting involving PCMR, the Police Department and City Hall staffers like Robinson and Park City Engineer Matt Cassel is planned on Tuesday to review the test. Robinson said he anticipates drafting a report for Mayor Jack Thomas and the Park City Council in early April.

In a memo to the elected officials as the test approached, Robinson said officials wanted to learn whether morning skier traffic could flow more smoothly in the vicinity of the parking lot close to PCMR’s First Time chair lift. Traffic had been seen backing onto Park Avenue on some mornings, Robinson said in the memo.

In a prepared statement provided in response to a Park Record request for comment, Bill Rock, the senior vice president and chief operating officer at PCMR, said discussions will continue about traffic on roads close to the resort.

“We are continuing to work with the city to investigate solutions surrounding traffic flow at Park City Mountain Resort. The one-way test on Lowell Avenue . . . was a first step in experimenting on potential solutions in partnership with the city. We will continue to work with the city and play an active role on future ideas in contributing to a solution,” Rock said in the statement.