{"id":1312822,"date":"2019-07-25T20:20:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/imagine-glenwoods-take-a-minute-campaign-catching-on-with-businesses-residents\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T20:20:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T02:20:01","slug":"imagine-glenwoods-take-a-minute-campaign-catching-on-with-businesses-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/imagine-glenwoods-take-a-minute-campaign-catching-on-with-businesses-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Glenwood\u2019s Take A Minute campaign catching on with businesses, residents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cars zip through town during the early evening rush hour near City Market on Thursday in Glenwood Springs.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

From Vicco\u2019s Charcoalburger Drive-In to Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs\u2019 businesses and residents continue to get on board with the grassroots campaign, Take A Minute.<\/p>\n

According to Colorado Department of Transportation data, nearly three times the city\u2019s population \u2014 28,000 vehicles \u2014 travel between the Grand Avenue Bridge and 23rd Street daily.<\/p>\n

And since early May the Take A Minute campaign has asked those drivers going up and down Grand Avenue \u2014 via yard signs, speed trailers and even digital billboards \u2014 to \u201cSlow Down in Town.\u201d<\/p>\n

But has the message had any noticeable effect?<\/p>\n

\u201cRight at this point, I can\u2019t say that we\u2019ve noticed anything subjectively that leads us to believe it\u2019s had a considerable response,\u201d Glenwood Springs Police Chief Terry Wilson said of the effort put forth by the neighborhood coalition Imagine Glenwood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe write tickets and write tickets and write tickets as much as we can, and we\u2019re not running out of customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to wanting drivers to obey the 25 mph speed limit along Grand Avenue, Wilson was equally \u2014 if not more \u2014 concerned about the uptick in aggressive and distracted driving.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I just think that there is a real disregard by people for regulation as far as speed limit signs, red lights and stop signs,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are much more willing to completely disregard those things than they were a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vicco\u2019s Charcoalburger Drive-In, which has been in West Glenwood since 1953, has also been a driving force in the Take A Minute campaign. An avid car collector, owner Bart Victor, who puts on the Hot Summer Nights Cruise Series between May and September, makes sure to prominently display a Take A Minute decal while cruising in his vintage car.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery other Friday when we do a cruise night we put the [Take A Minute decals] in the cars,\u201d Victor explained of the event that sees 500 horsepower hotrods doing the speed limit, or even below, along the city\u2019s main thoroughfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to keep everybody safe \u2026 slow down and enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The campaign\u2019s name stems from Imagine Glenwood\u2019s researched conclusion that the time saved by driving 10 miles per hour over the 25 mph speed limit through the city\u2019s core evidently amounts to 1 minute.<\/p>\n

One of Glenwood\u2019s largest employers \u2014 Valley View Hospital \u2014 has also thrown its support behind the Take-A-Minute campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much of slowing down and driving the speed limit is about safety, and certainly as a health-care organization, safety is one of our leading values here,\u201d Valley View Hospital Chief Community Relations Officer Stacey Gavrell explained of the hospital\u2019s support.<\/p>\n

While measuring the campaign\u2019s effectiveness has proven challenging, one of its originators, Diane Reynolds, pledged to continue spreading the grassroots effort\u2019s message.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the city recently awarded Take A Minute a grant in the amount of $2,422 to further its efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can facilitate an orderly, respectful drive for all of our people, whether they are walking or in a car, then it\u2019s a win-win for Glenwood,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not stop in our efforts. We hope to continue applying for grants. We hope that people will decide this is a worthy cause. \u2026 I can guarantee you that we will continue to get the message out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cars zip through town during the early evening rush hour near City Market on Thursday in Glenwood Springs.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent From Vicco\u2019s Charcoalburger Drive-In to Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs\u2019 businesses and residents continue to get on board with the grassroots campaign, Take A Minute. According to Colorado Department of Transportation data, nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 07:21:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}