{"id":2449878,"date":"2019-10-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/if-you-collapse-it-they-wont-come\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T19:31:54","slug":"if-you-collapse-it-they-wont-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/if-you-collapse-it-they-wont-come\/","title":{"rendered":"If you collapse it, they won\u2019t come"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Northern California residents live in pre-industrial conditions (no power) because decades of lefty policies loaded up PG&amp;E with unaffordable renewable energy requirements while rates were insufficient to maintain infrastructure. The <span class=\"STND:STND Factbox Bold\">Oct. 11 Aspen Times\u2019 <\/span><span class=\"STND:STND Factbox Bold\">report on the Castle Creek bridge<\/span> reveals years of lefty policies in Aspen have created a similar situation here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to the report, the bridge can\u2019t be paved properly because the weight of pavement might collapse the bridge. Collapse the bridge!? Policies designed to make it hard to enter Aspen by car gave us a dilapidated bridge that can\u2019t be paved properly. Sane people long ago would have replaced the bridge with a new four-laner to relieve congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Just let the bridge collapse. Then you won\u2019t have to worry about too many visitors in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/if-you-collapse-it-they-wont-come\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern California residents live in pre-industrial conditions (no power) because decades of lefty policies loaded up PG&amp;E with unaffordable renewable energy requirements while rates were insufficient to maintain infrastructure. The Oct. 11 Aspen Times\u2019 report on the Castle Creek bridge reveals years of lefty policies in Aspen have created a similar situation here. According to [&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-2449878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 13:36:03","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\/2449878","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=2449878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449894,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449878\/revisions\/2449894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}