A man walks by planters near the information kiosk in downtown Aspen separating the road from the pedestrian mall on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
The city of Aspen has placed planters at key locations in the downtown area where vehicle-pedestrian conflicts could occur, and hopefully prevent accidents like the one that happened last Christmas Eve in which a woman was hit by a car on the Cooper Avenue Mall.
The planters are not meant to be actual barriers to stop a vehicle but to give people a sense that there is a difference between the roadway and the pedestrian mall, City Manager Sara Ott said.