{"id":2454588,"date":"2020-02-14T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/the-downside-of-less-aspen-traffic\/"},"modified":"2020-02-16T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:00:33","slug":"the-downside-of-less-aspen-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-downside-of-less-aspen-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"The downside of less Aspen traffic"},"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\">Before everyone starts patting themselves on the back <a id=\"N0x1ee77b0N0x1cbb9b0:N0x1ee77b0N0x1eed948\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/traffic-levels-into-aspen-on-the-decline\/\">for less traffic<\/a> in and out of Aspen, let\u2019s take a look at a bigger picture. Traffic is a symptom of a strong economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">When I talk to people working at Willits and ask them how they\u2019re doing, their response is always capped with a big grin saying, \u201cAnd I don\u2019t have to go above the roundabout!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Has the job market gotten tighter Aspen? Will the stagnant wage ice dam crack as Carbondale, Willits and Basalt begin to match the best retail\/service paycheck Aspen can offer? Are more commuters coming from beyond Silt than Basalt? Will we need to entice \u201cmore\u201d traffic to fill those jobs which cannot be Skyped?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Ziska Childs<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter HeadLarge\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-downside-of-less-aspen-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before everyone starts patting themselves on the back for less traffic in and out of Aspen, let\u2019s take a look at a bigger picture. Traffic is a symptom of a strong economy. When I talk to people working at Willits and ask them how they\u2019re doing, their response is always capped with a big grin [&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-2454588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 15:24:17","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\/2454588","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=2454588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454622,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454588\/revisions\/2454622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}