With an influx of new residents who have found refuge in Aspen from more populated parts of the country during the pandemic comes more pressures on city services, so elected officials this month agreed to a new complaint system for neighborhood traffic issues.
“We are receiving more one-off requests for traffic calming, and the views of what traffic calming is varies a lot by neighborhood,” said City Manager Sara Ott during an Aspen City Council meeting Feb. 1
. “For some it’s speed humps, for some it’s stop signs, for some it’s street narrowing, for others it’s curb, but what we’ve noticed is we’ve had a change in the number of folks staying here longer, including the high season clearly as a result of the pandemic and some of these folks come with requests for things they might be used to having in other environments.”