{"id":2450604,"date":"2019-10-31T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T00:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/wake-up-earlier-dont-harp-on-rfta\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:07:44","slug":"wake-up-earlier-dont-harp-on-rfta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/wake-up-earlier-dont-harp-on-rfta\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake up earlier, don\u2019t harp on RFTA"},"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\">Wake up earlier, don\u2019t harp on RFTA<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Dear Gail Mason,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When the National Weather Service, NOAA, CDOT, my iPhone weather app and local forecasters are calling for multiple snow storms to wreak havoc on local mountains and roadways from Sunday night through Tuesday; your son may want to plan ahead and leave really, really early for work! (<a id=\"N0x17b3200N0x19068b0:N0x17b3200N0x18b6ec0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/no-excuse-for-late-buses\/\">\u201cNo excuses for late buses\u201d Aspen Times 10\/31\/19<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">RFTA is a wonderful system and usually quite reliable, but only as good as the drivers who think \u201ctraction Law\u201d compliant tires makes them invincible to the sheet of ice coating Highway 82. When one person T-bones the canyon barriers, slides out in the middle of the road or causes a wreck sliding through an intersection; that causes RFTA buses to get backed up. It is out of RFTA\u2019s control. When people don\u2019t get up earlier on those storm days, they get in a hurry and that usually causes accidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Now, if RFTA were a train or light rail system, it would be less hindered by poor drivers and slippery road conditions. However, it is a bus system. The busses also have to merge at the roundabout for the one-lane Castle Creek bridge. But you live in Aspen and we would not want to disrupt the \u201csmall town charm\u201d by having a four-lane entry and exit to Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There will be some snowstorms that we will all be late for work regardless what time you leave. That is just the nature of, well, Nature! Or Ullr if you are more into Norse Mythology!<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Enjoy the charm and coming winter of Aspen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">John Norman<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/wake-up-earlier-dont-harp-on-rfta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake up earlier, don\u2019t harp on RFTA Dear Gail Mason, When the National Weather Service, NOAA, CDOT, my iPhone weather app and local forecasters are calling for multiple snow storms to wreak havoc on local mountains and roadways from Sunday night through Tuesday; your son may want to plan ahead and leave really, really early [&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-2450604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 10:26:53","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\/2450604","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=2450604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450625,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450604\/revisions\/2450625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}