Aspen in 2021 saw one of its lowest car counts in decades, but why does it feel like local traffic is at breaking point?

Beginning in the last two years, the expectation that transit will absorb Aspen’s growth has been put to the test. Although car counts at the entrance were relatively low last year, other factors help explain why 2021 saw perhaps the highest level of community angst about traffic in a generation.

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