{"id":808120,"date":"2020-06-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384520"},"modified":"2020-06-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-please-rethink-the-closure-of-frisco-main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-please-rethink-the-closure-of-frisco-main-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Please rethink the closure of Frisco Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco Town Council, please rethink the closure of Main Street. Why?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are closing our main thoroughfare during what is projected to be the most ever summer season of automobile\/road trip travel.<\/li>\n<li>Check out the Wednesday volume of side street parking when Main Street is still open. There are few spaces available even before the season starts!\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The town\u2019s dirt parking lot at Third and Granite streets does not even have stairs or any other access to Main Street.<\/li>\n<li>The west Main Street exit is now the preferred entry into central Frisco as the east exit and entrance traffic backs up.<\/li>\n<li>Closed Main Street will cut off the needed volume of one-time only visitors who access to our unique \u201cMain Street of the Rockies.\u201d We need their added\u00a0 business.<\/li>\n<li>Business and retail are the majority of Main Street. Restaurants are the minority, and all restaurants already have outdoor dining protected from the changing climate.<\/li>\n<li>The near daily rain and wind storms coming down from Tenmile Canyon will constantly disrupt whatever outdoor plans you may have.<\/li>\n<li>Frisco does not have a safe and proven route that moves traffic effectively detouring Main Street. There will be backups that will deter future business.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There is now a petition circulating asking the Town Council to reconsider the closure. While not 100% consensus, when delivered it will be near 50% consensus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for your consideration and please revisit the \u201cparklets\u201d plan that works for everybody.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-please-rethink-the-closure-of-frisco-main-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisco Town Council, please rethink the closure of Main Street. Why? We are closing our main thoroughfare during what is projected to be the most ever summer season of automobile\/road trip travel. Check out the Wednesday volume of side street parking when Main Street is still open. There are few spaces available even before the [&hellip;]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 03:15:01","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}