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A cyclist takes the pedestrian and biker roadway on Hopkins Avenue in Aspen on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Dedicating a seven-block thoroughfare in Aspen’s West End for just pedestrians and bicyclists later this month is part of a bigger plan to increase overall safety in the downtown core for those who are walking or riding a bike.
“Bikes have been left out of our core. We cut them out on the (pedestrian malls), we cut them out on Galena when we made it a one-way,” city engineer Trish Aragon said. “Our next step is to see how we can add that layer back in, how we can add that connectivity in our downtown.”
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.”