{"id":2449739,"date":"2019-10-10T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/traffic-without-representation\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:52:22","slug":"traffic-without-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/traffic-without-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic without representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The city of Aspen has shared a survey to gather public input to help guide their search for Aspen\u2019s next head of community development. Perhaps the most important question in the survey is multiple choice: \u201cWhat are the three most pressing issues facing Aspen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The suggested choices include: \u201cavailability of workforce housing, access to locally grown food, water conservation, energy efficiency, and more multi-modal transportation options (pedestrian, bike, etc.)\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Conspicuously absent from the suggested answers is \u201cthe ability to spend more time with my family instead of sitting in my truck, stuck in traffic.\u201d Based on this survey, Aspen\u2019s idea of community appears to exclude the interests of workers who get stuck in their trucks in traffic every day. This must change. These workers power Aspen\u2019s economy and way of life. Their needs must fall within Aspen\u2019s idea of community, even though these workers don\u2019t live and vote in Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We need to build a second bridge over Castle Creek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">John Hornblower<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/traffic-without-representation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Aspen has shared a survey to gather public input to help guide their search for Aspen\u2019s next head of community development. Perhaps the most important question in the survey is multiple choice: \u201cWhat are the three most pressing issues facing Aspen?\u201d The suggested choices include: \u201cavailability of workforce housing, access to locally [&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":["post-2449739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 17:08:52","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\/2449739","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=2449739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449761,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449739\/revisions\/2449761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}