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Reservations: 949-1423 On the north side of I-70 i!95 in north Avon, COMMENTARY It's only a matter of time do and a word about safety with road- side parking. Yes, "it is only a matter of time before the present policy of frontage roads parking results in a significant injury" — quoting a recent Valley Voices column from the Vail Home- owners Association. This Labor Day weekend was the last straw for me — hile driving west on South Frontage Road from the main sail roundabout, there, standing LET on an 18 -inch median with THE cars whizzing by on each side, a dad carrying a toddler and a morn with a young child in hand trying to cross south to north! The town of Vail must now flex its muscle to do something. y suggestions: ■ Yellow f1whing lights and 15 mph signage all along where frontage road parking is in play — similar to being in a school zone. ■ Rumble strips under the white lines separating traffic frum roadside parked cars, 1 number of temporary "this is a state law crossing" with the distinctive sign and some creative form of the panda strips where one is to cross. ■ A courtesy patrol person every so man} yards (say 40? to assist in parking and stay there until folks come back, likely vcry tired and/or with non -driver passengers who had been drinking. ■ As each car is parked, the driver should be handed a "Welcome to Vail" card highlighting the good. things to ■ Establish a time, specific to each overflow day, when drivers of cars parked on the road might consider moving to the "free after t3" parking structures — and include that suggest- ed time in the 'Welcome to Vail" card. Again with courtesy patrol assistance to pull out and likely have to do a turn around. Clearly this would LETT TO be a hard sell for restaurants EDITOR and bars, but we better start thinking outside the box to solve the coming back to cars clanger, especially after dark. ■ Specific events that cause over - f I ow parking need to pone up to staff' such a coul-tesy patrol — clearly Vail Resorts in the NN inter and a variety of event sponsors in the summer. ■ The town's Commission onSpe- cial Events needs to include at least one community -at -large rnernber with background and passion for safety issues, coupled with one public safety person from the town staff. Paul Rondeau Vail Solving climate crisis If a Colorado Latino horneowner dices the right things — gets an energy audit and assessment, makes their home more energy efficient, adds solar PV to their rooftop or a solar PV array and buys an electric car like a Nissan Leaf or Chevy Volt— after five to sev- en years they will he sa-0ng anywhere from $600 to 500 per month. Let's look at the numbers for a mo- ment. 1,106,310 or 21 percent of all Coloradans are Hispanic or Latina. There are almost 368,780 Latina households in Colorado. If all Lati- no households gat an energy audit, switched to solar power and pur- chased electric cars, in five to seven years they would be saAng an average of 50 a month. That's a collective savings of nearly $239,707,000 per month or billion a year kept in hands of Latinos and even more with business and agriculture involved. No longer would these monies go to utilities, oil, gas, and coal or dirty emissions auto manufacturers. Our Colorado skies would be clearer; we could breathe without sucking down Pollutants; our lands would be free of gas and oil wells, smoke stacks and coal strip mines. .Nh ole new job market and econ- omyF would emerge for Latinos — one that is so robust people are happy and able to enjoy life. They can afford medical insurance. They can afford can afford necessities for their chil- dren, to go out to dinner or a movic more often, even go on vacation and send their kids to college. Not only that, but with a to-wer cost oflivin and less debt, crime rates would drop. Climate Colorado is a Colorado nonprofit with a how-to step-by-step pre -cess for Colorado Latino families to get these energy upgrades. 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