VAIL – — Filled parking structures are a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless.
When Vail’s parking structures fill up on busy weekends, both winter and summer, people park along the town’s north and south frontage roads. That creates legal problems with the Colorado Department of Transportation, which maintains those roads.
State and town officials have hammered out a plan in which the town can allow frontage road parking, but for no more than 30 days per calendar year — which will likely be split between the summer and winter seasons. As part of that deal, Vail has to pay for improvements in several spots, from wider shoulders at spots on the south side to guardrails on the north side near Safeway.
What that means is that formerly free parking isn’t free any more.
Town officials expect to spend about $700,000 this year on improvements to South Frontage Road, including the addition of a guardrail on the North Frontage Road.
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