Pacifica Tribune Letters to the Editor, 3/27/13. "Highway 1" by Bob Hutchinson
"Here we go again. The same old motley crew (that put our little city in such a great place) is at it again. Previously they were against any building at the quarry because of the terrible traffic jams it would create.
Now the "gang of no" is against widening Highway One because there IS no traffic.
| No traffic in Pacifica, because no people |
I hope our other councilmembers do not allow anymore delays in this long over due project. Pacifica Firefighters, emergency workers and PD have all said that widening Highway One is a matter of life and death. We've studied this long enough. Enough meetings, enough public input, enough delay tactics.
BTW, I'm very proud of Councilman
Mike O'Neill and how he has been looking out for Pacificans. I was
disappointed that other council members recently voted to keep police
outsourcing off the table until 2014. Haven't we been stabbed in the
back enough on this? I hope the other councilmembers realize Mr.
O'Neill won his seat by a huge margin. He has a very strong mandate
from the people of Pacifica to drastically change the direction from the
destructive secretive path of the past. He is a breath of fresh air.
You go, Mike!"
Posted by Kathy Meeh
11 comments:
Hutch lives!
Hutch for city council!
I'll vote for Hutch too! and I do too think so too that Mike is doing a great job. We need like minded persons to Fix Pacifica by cutting the baloney.
Four more Mikes would be nice. Stone and Nihart should get started on those bigger political plans right now before they do themselves any more damage. Start now, please. If that tape of Monday night's meeting gets out, they're finished.
Let me know if I understand this HWY 1 Widening Project. The "Freeway" ortion og the road is currently TWO lanes right through the Schoolhouse Cut to the Vallemar stoplight. Then the proposal is to go to THREE lanes up to the Rockaway stoplight. Then back to TWO lanes to the Linda Mar light where the roadway becomes one lane (in each direction). That;s going to cure the bottleneck problem?
Just notice the other day, one of those sticks with the surveyor's tape right be the little house just north of The Pacific Beach Hotel. Made me wonder whether the homeowner had a survey done or is someone with Caltrans is studying the feasibility of eventually bringing three lanes all the way to Linda Mar? After that, not hard to imagine the two lane freeway being changed to three lanes as there appears to be sufficient room. Only obstacle left will be the Schoolhouse Cut, Ah, just take out that bike path and the new police station; that ought to take care of it. Seriously, I did read a comment the other day that "the real goal is to open up the Coastside to more development." That might be a bit tough to do. At one time, the Rancho del Tierra (sic) property was owned by WestCal, which was the real estate subsidiary of Westinghouse Corporation. They had some future plan for development, but that didn't go far. Also, Henry Doelger, that famed developer of Westlake had an option on some land just north or just south of the City of Half Moon Bay. He died; the deal died with him. The only large parcel available of which I'm aware is the Coyote Ranch area at the top of El Granada Blvd. I don't think the residents would take kindly to all that traffic heading up their street, so little chance of much development there. Other than doing dense in-fill in established subdivisions, not of land left to build on without rezoning and that could take years and years.
@8:34 again. Wow, I just re-read my earlier post and got to apologize for all the typos. At 8:30 a.m., you'd figure a guy would be awake. Guess not enough coffee this morning. Ignore the typos and you can figure out what I was trying to say.
There's plenty of time to open up the mid-coast to development. No hurry. And it doesn't have to be, nor is it likely to be, those big housing developments from the past that we all envision. Not at all. Caltrans thinks very longterm
as do regional planners. Better minds than ours are on the job and big money watches and waits.
@834 Motives are usually pure speculation, but it's pretty hard to deny that better roads "open up" an area. More people brings more business and so on.
Seriously what has Mike O'Neil done?
Everyone thinks he is the second coming of Jim Vreeland.
to @4:29 p.m.: Maybe O'Neill can walk on water like Vreeland. Easter Sunday would be a good time for it; seems appropriate.
@429 O'Neill voted against those sugary police contracts and that's good enough for me. If any of them are in the Vreeland mold, my money's on Nihart. I swear she's started channeling him in meetings with those scripted little exchanges.
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