{"id":2440337,"date":"2019-02-08T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/how-to-drive-away-aspen-bound-motorists\/"},"modified":"2019-02-08T19:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:12:01","slug":"how-to-drive-away-aspen-bound-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/how-to-drive-away-aspen-bound-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"How to drive away Aspen-bound motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I read with interest the mayoral candidates&#8217; comments on traffic congestion in Aspen (<a id=\"N0x1ef64a0N0x208c640:N0x1ef64a0N0x1eb7430\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-mayoral-candidates-offer-ideas-on-transportation\/\">&#8220;Aspen mayoral candidates offer ideas on transportation,&#8221;<\/a> Feb. 7, The Aspen Times).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The solution to the problem is obvious and is based on long-settled science. Just as we shouldn&#8217;t ignore climate science (which all candidates presumably agree), we shouldn&#8217;t ignore tried and true science in solving this problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The sciences we&#8217;re talking about are economics and civil engineering (OK, maybe they&#8217;re not official sciences, but bear with me). Economics says increase the cost of commuting into Aspen and civil engineering says straighten the S-curve and add pavement. Make non-residents pay to enter the city using license plate readers to monitor and collect payment and use the money to pay for straightening the S-curve. The added fee will drive people to ride the bus and the straightening will reduce the slinky effect that slows traffic down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">City planners proposed using incentives to get people out of cars next summer in the aborted mobility lab effort \u2014 this fee is merely a negative incentive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jake Brace<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/how-to-drive-away-aspen-bound-motorists\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read with interest the mayoral candidates&#8217; comments on traffic congestion in Aspen (&#8220;Aspen mayoral candidates offer ideas on transportation,&#8221; Feb. 7, The Aspen Times). The solution to the problem is obvious and is based on long-settled science. Just as we shouldn&#8217;t ignore climate science (which all candidates presumably agree), we shouldn&#8217;t ignore tried and [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 11:12:43","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}