A new stop sign and dedicated pedestrian and bikeway in the West End are new measures to prevent accidents between vehicles and pedestrians and bicyclists.
Crossing Main Street in downtown Aspen should be better for pedestrians now that the city has control of the four traffic signals and has timed them to favor walking without backing up traffic.
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A man working at a home on Lake Avenue carries a bag to the street across from Triangle Park in Aspen on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Aspen City Council on Monday agreed to designate a popular vehicular route out of town in a West End neighborhood as a pedestrian and bikeway.
Seven blocks from Garmisch to North streets along Lake Avenue will be dedicated to pedestrians and bicyclists in the coming months.
Just like the ones on Hallam Street and Hopkins Avenue, the newest pedestrian and bikeway is designed to only allow cars to travel for one block.