{"id":2451574,"date":"2019-11-25T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/more-gondolas-for-everyone\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:41:55","slug":"more-gondolas-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/more-gondolas-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"More gondolas for everyone"},"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\">More gondolas for everyone<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jim Markulunas is totally right about the unstoppable valley-wide congestion throughout the entire Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jim is also right that a top-of-the-mountain gondola connecting the four mountains would just work for skiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jim\u2019s letter speaks of two traffic problems: Commuting valleywide and commuting locally in the upper valley of Aspen and Snowmass. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/glenwood-to-aspen-light-rail-is-the-answer\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/glenwood-to-aspen-light-rail-is-the-answer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">My letter targets the gridlock of Aspen and Snowmass and supports the addition of a no-wait urban aerial valley-floor gondola system originating at Brush Creek Park and Ride \u2014 with two valley-floor alignments. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/visions-of-an-aerial-gondola-over-aspen\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/visions-of-an-aerial-gondola-over-aspen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The two valley-floor aerial alignments are from Brush Creek Park &amp; Ride which intersects to the destinations of:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">1. Snowmass Village along Brush Creek Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">2. Aspen along Highway 82 with stops at Aspen Airport and Buttermilk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">End result: Aspen, Snowmass and the airport are connected<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As for the entire Roaring Fork Valley gridlock situation, that\u2019s another rail letter. Happy Thanksgiving, Jim \u2026 perseverance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Toni Kronberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Snowmass<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/more-gondolas-for-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More gondolas for everyone Jim Markulunas is totally right about the unstoppable valley-wide congestion throughout the entire Roaring Fork Valley. Jim is also right that a top-of-the-mountain gondola connecting the four mountains would just work for skiers. Jim\u2019s letter speaks of two traffic problems: Commuting valleywide and commuting locally in the upper valley of Aspen [&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-2451574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 04:50:29","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\/2451574","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=2451574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451592,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451574\/revisions\/2451592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}