Some of you who want an improved highway might consider attending the San Mateo County Transportation funding meeting: 5 PM, October 4th in San Carlos (1250 San Carlos Avenue, San Carlos, 2nd floor, Bacciocco Auditorium). Local NIMBIES (including Loma Prieta Sierra Club) will be there to advocate for their newly considered alternatives.
The Daily Journal/San Mateo/Bill Silverfarb, 9/24/12 "Highway projects get tentative approval, but not all of them."
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| 20 year Vallemar traffic jam straight ahead |
The biggest project the agency will fund, depending on board approval, will be for the construction of a new seven-lane overcrossing at Broadway in Burlingame which will include bike lanes and sidewalks, the reconfiguration of the existing on-and-off ramps at 101 and ramp-meter installation for $36 million.
Another recommended project is for $8.9 million to fund the reconfiguration of the loop ramps at Highway 101 and Woodside Road in Redwood City.
Other projects recommended for approval include $7 million for traffic
improvements in Half Moon Bay along Highway 1; $7.5 million for projects
in Pacifica including the widening of Highway 1 from four lanes to six
lanes between Fassler and Reina Del Mar avenues; and $3 million for
improvements to the Holly Street intersection at Highway 101 in San
Carlos.
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| NIMBY efficiency plan: go through the quarry |
Related - Fix Pacifica, highway 1 widening reprint articles. And, Calera Parkway DIERA Report (287 pdf pages).
The opposition, local Sierra Club - Sierra Club/The Loma Prietan, January/February, 2012."Pacifica city council waffles on Calera Parkway." "The Chapter has made its opposition clear. We wrote to the San Mateo County Transportation Authority in 2010. We also expressed our reservations when we questioned Pacifica City Council candidates during our 2010 election endorsement process. The project could cost over $50 million to solve a problem that could be better solved other ways, and it poses threats to nearby wetlands and endangered species." Oh sure.
The opposition, Pacifica NIMBIES. Pacifica Patch. 9/6/12. "New community group opposes widening highway 1."... The group is calling itself "Pacificans for Highway 1 Alternatives," or "PH1A." And Pacifica Tribune, (PH1A PAC (no author disclosure), 9/18/12, Pacificans for highway 1 alternatives." New NIMBY ideas after 20 years of CalTrans research.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
35 comments:
Yet again with the hippies and nobies complaining about caltrans they could also lose the highway money and it goes to another project.
Lets see 30+ years isn't that long in the warped minds of the hippies and nobies!
Kathy, come on now, no one is considering "new alternatives. I've recently looked over 40 years of CalTrans correspondence with local Pacificans and staff about the project area and signaling coordination, school drop off times and grade separations among others have been bouncing around town and Caltrans as far back as the early 1960's.
The issue is that over the last 40 years computers have been invented and improved to the point where an interconnected signal system could have some real benefit at a cost (according to the DEIR) of a mere 300K. By contrast the SMCTA alone has spent just shy of 5 million dollars so far on basically nothing, just a bunch of paper.
For a bunch of budget hawks you all sure miss the boat on wasted TA money.
Nyuk nyuk says, no highway widening. And vote for Campbell!
Yeah 936 and how about the other two stooges? Who are they voting for?
Has it only been 20 years with this highway stuff? What's the hurry? Aren't we all retired or unemployed yet? Road is pretty clear most of the day. Sleep in.
They can slather on as much ooga-booga public safety on this as they want, it just isn't going to happen. Fix the shoulders a little, fix the lights, go home.
Todd you weren't so worried about speding too much money when you and your evironmental buddies insisted on the tunnel over the bypass. 1 billion dollars baby.
Admit it Bray, you just get off on being a pain in the ass and holding up every project that comes along.
You've cost this city millions you and your nimby friends like Peter Loeb. And now you're worried about wasting money?
LMAO!
Yeah 135 Were you stuck in traffic while you laughed your arse off?
Highway widening? Not very green and not very likely.
Has it only been 20 years with this highway stuff? What's the hurry? Aren't we all retired or unemployed yet? Road is pretty clear most of the day. Sleep in.
No its been since the mid 1970's right after the hippies and nobies took control of the council. The local brain tank of Fred Howard and Peter Loeb and his hippie and nobies friends.
Todd, you would be perfect on city council cause you talk out of both sides of your mouth and say two different things. First you were against the quarry, and took millions of dollars of lost revenue out of the city bank account. Now you say you are against the highway cause it would cost too much? Really?
You looked over 40 years of documents. Put some money where your big mouth is. I want to see these documents.
Show them, or go away!
But anon 443 the traffic is soooo bad I can't possibly leave. Oh me, oh my.
Somebody's gonna blow a gasket. What I find amazing is that this brain-lock has gone on for 20 or 30or 40 years. Where were all you economic geniuses? Dormant? Or were you actually part of the problem? Oh never mind, because it's definitely everyone's problem now and it only took the worst financial catastrophe since the Great Depression to show us all the folly of our ways. Well, most of us. Always a few diehards.
Thank you Republicans and Democrats!
Hey the hippies led by PSD Pete Shoemaker formed a new group!
Reagan, worked with the democrats to get everything he wanted through.
Bush Sr. Forgot about the economy and was a one termer
Bill Clinton the Republicans wanted to ruin him. White water, the health care bill that failed, impeachment over a BJ.
George Bush 2.0 disaster
Obama witch hunt about his birth certificate.
The republicans and democrats couldn't give a rats ass about solving problems, they both are the problem!
@814 Pete Shoemaker was a real dud as the chair of the FCSTF. Fluffy very fluffy.
They are celebrating the tunnel finally? We would not be having these traffic problems if we had the by-pass and 380 put in and it would have been done long ago. Ok, I agree partially maybe not as extensive project on 380 as they planned. It would have been much better than what we have now. The hippies will soon be having us ride our bikes on HWY 1. No more cars. Opps, I shouldn't give them any ideas...
I love how there is a plaque at Mori Point that basically brags about how the hippies stopped 380 from coming to Pacifica.
but can bray please clear up something? he opposed measure L and trashed Peebles even as a planning commissioner. did he also dissuade Swenson from buying the property?
yeah, if it hadn't been for those dirty long-haired twirly dancing hippies and nobies, Mori Point would have a nice big housing development on it and Rockaway would be replaced by the beautiful 380 cloverleaf interchange.
San Bruno residents in Crestmor stopped the 380 project. A few Pacicica hippies and nobees jumped in at the last minute to take a couple photos.
The Crestmor residents, across San Bruno Ave got the residents of Upper Sneath Lane to join in, arguing no one ever told them the major freeway would cut up the canyon besides their homes.
Curtis, and a couple local hippies jumped in at the last minute to get credit.
so the hippies didn't stop 380
@752 If Barry Swenson could be dissuaded from a good deal by one clearly biased Pacifican, then Swenson isn't smart enough for a quarry project or after due diligence it wasn't such a good idea. If it ever was even under consideration.
Thank you Anon 5:22 for making the point that I was about to. I'm quite sure a successful developer like Swenson does his due diligence and makes his own decisions.
@614 welcome.
anon 426 The hippies stopped 380? Hell, the hippies couldn't stop a bus, but they're an easy target for those out there whose arguments require easy targets.
Let's see the hippies did a pretty good job here.
The quarry(Tramell Crow, Peebles, Swenson)
Mori's Point (many different ideas, from a casino, hotel convension center, housing)
Housing at Fassler(Lee's project)
Housing on Roberts Road (Tait's)
Old Waste Water Treatment plant(Swenson out, Skyfield got the nod)
Housing/mixed use Pedro Point(flat parcel behind Pedro Point Shopping Center)
The concert center at Linda Mar Beach
They did an excellent job:
Costing the taxpayers higher rates and fees to pay for services.
Letting the town infastructure go to hell
Bankruptcy within 2 years
That is just off the top of my head give me a couple cups of coffee, too much turkey over the long weekend.
I will think of a few more revenue producing projects.
Swenson Builders is an excellent company with a stellar reputation in the building business. They could have put together a quality project in the quarry but they decided that why fight city hall the hippies and the nobees. The reason they are still in business and still borrowing money during the most difficult times for builders since the great depression, is they are a very smart company who picks and choses projects very carefully.
I don't think for a minute the big mouthed wind bag who claims to have went down to his office and told him not to buy the quarry had any bit of sway not to pursue the project.
First of all the person mentioned above has changed his story from he went down there and spoke to Barry personally to he called him, to he talked to a person who works there.
Zero credibility.
http://www.barryswensonbuilder.com/
Sorry I missed this one.
Did someone say that Pete Shoemaker and his PSD buddies started a new group?
Talk to me.
@723 yoohoo, pacifica is hippies. ex-hippies, wannabees, young hippies, old hippies, educated hippies, politician hippies..it's pacifica. then and now. you and your list are a hoot. guess you woke up one day and the town was in the crapper. golly, how did that happen when smart list-making guys like you were around? it's ok, you were outnumbered, then and now. go back to sleep, nothing will change.
anon731 Bad idea at a bad time and Swenson knew it. He knows Pacifica and he knows the obstacles to building on the coast. Not worth the risk. Wait a few years and if housing really does recover someone might nibble again. Of course who knows what kind of town this will be by then? Certainly, more of a dump than today. There's a limit to what volunteer labor can do.
nyuk nyuk you must have been sleeping also whent he hippies and nobbes ruined and bankrupted the town.
But this is the way Pacifica lives!
http://pacifica.patch.com/articles/new-community-group-opposes-widening-of-highway-1
I don't do Facebook but here you go.
https://www.facebook.com/PHwy1A
@235 That's the truth...this is the way this town lives and it's been this way for decades. Most Pacificans couldn't care less. The little fringe group on here that sees a new day in the last election results is delusional. Beneath whatever trendy mask this new council is wearing they are the same old hacks elected by the same people who elected the previous hacks and so on and so forth. Watch what they do.
If anyone thinks the new upcoming council will be more effective at getting projects built in town good luck with that. Nothing has stood in the way of progress in this town more than the greedy ambitions of a handful of would be giants.
Anon 344 says "same old hacks elected by the same people"
Do you vote? If so why? Because you obviously have no faith in our system of electing representatives.
@609 absolute faith in the system and i love a surprise. hope springs eternal.
@550 and how!
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