Entrance to Aspen:
The Split Shot Solution                                                                                     Map 

The design proposed provides for 4 lanes, minimizes the impact to the Marolt Open Space, uses only a new two-lane bridge over Castle Creek, preserves the historic buildings at Marolt, eliminates the need for a traffic light at 7th and Main, and provides for light rail.

The Split Shot Solution:

• Replace the traffic light at Cemetery Lane with a Round a Bout or a grade-change type intersection.
• Provide four lanes of traffic from Buttermilk through the existing Round a Bout and to Cemetery Lane, and then form Cemetery Lane into town on two separate alignments.
• From the new interchange at Cemetery Lane there would be two, one-way lanes of traffic into Aspen along Castle Creek (avoiding most of the Marolt Open Space); then across Castle Creek on a new two-lane bridge that aligns with Main Street. This brings only 2 lanes of traffic into the 7th Street neighborhood.
• Two, one-way lanes of traffic out-bound, on the existing S Curves over the existing Castle Creek Bridge.
• Design this new alignment (radius of curvature and grade change) to accommodate future light rail, and provide a mass transit easement.