{"id":2453392,"date":"2020-01-17T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/rfta-not-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2020-01-19T08:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T15:43:56","slug":"rfta-not-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/rfta-not-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"RFTA not the problem"},"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\">The dedicated community residents who created Roaring Fork Transportation Authority were happy to have the original one-hour service possible! To have only a 15-minute wait between buses is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">My suggested <a id=\"N0x2a7b270N0x2a362c0:N0x2a7b270N0x2982f70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/rfta-is-no-authority-on-timely-transportation\/\">alternatives for Bronwyn Anglin<\/a> include the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">1. Catch the earlier bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">2. Ski, walk, run or bike from Basalt to Aspen on the Rio Grande Trail (another benefit of the positive work of many area citizens).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">3. Find a new source of funds (Highway 82 toll road?) to fund more frequent public transit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">4. Find a city that provides more frequent service and relocate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That would help to eliminate the increasing number of cars and population demands and car accidents and snowy roads \u2014 the issues that slow our RFTA buses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Dorothea Farris<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Crystal Valley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/rfta-not-the-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dedicated community residents who created Roaring Fork Transportation Authority were happy to have the original one-hour service possible! To have only a 15-minute wait between buses is remarkable. My suggested alternatives for Bronwyn Anglin include the following: 1. Catch the earlier bus. 2. Ski, walk, run or bike from Basalt to Aspen on the [&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-2453392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 20:24:59","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\/2453392","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=2453392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453423,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453392\/revisions\/2453423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}