{"id":2451062,"date":"2019-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316021"},"modified":"2019-11-14T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:27:04","slug":"aspen-going-in-circles-on-traffic-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-going-in-circles-on-traffic-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen going in circles on traffic studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.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\">Here we go again. Another traffic study. It\u2019s reported that our City Council wants to spend $100,000 on a traffic study of the roundabout (<a id=\"N0x14b0f50N0x16626b0:N0x14b0f50N0x161f5d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/cdot-gives-aspen-roundabout-d-grade-city-council-considers-100k-for-traffic-study\/\">\u201cCDOT gives Aspen roundabout \u2018D\u2019 grade; city council considers $100k for traffic study,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 12, aspentimes.com). How many traffic studies do we need and how much money has to be wasted to determine what everyone knows?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The roundabout is a mess. It\u2019s graded \u201cD\u201d by the Colorad Department of Transportation. You simply can\u2019t have the entrance to city with a 10 mph speed limit roundabout simultaneously servicing a busy state highway and two other busy roads. We need an overpass\/underpass providing unimpeded traffic for Highway 82, and then a new method for accommodating traffic to and from Castle Creek and Maroon Creek roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yes, it will be expensive, but any other solution will simply not work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Eric Simon<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Snowmass Village<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/aspen-going-in-circles-on-traffic-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. Another traffic study. It\u2019s reported that our City Council wants to spend $100,000 on a traffic study of the roundabout (\u201cCDOT gives Aspen roundabout \u2018D\u2019 grade; city council considers $100k for traffic study,\u201d Nov. 12, aspentimes.com). How many traffic studies do we need and how much money has to be wasted [&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-2451062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 06:44:41","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\/2451062","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=2451062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451077,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451062\/revisions\/2451077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}