| Safety is #1, "the life you save may be your own", your family, your friends, someone of value you know or don't know |
| Protest against highway 1 widening defy logic when the only time to widen highway 1 is now |
"Editor: On March 19, while traveling to work going north on Highway 1 I saw an ambulance come to a complete stop trying to pass cars struggling to get to the side of the road so it could pass.
On March 26 at approximately 7:45 a.m., again traveling north on Highway 1, stuck in our local gridlock, I heard the sirens behind me. Again, an ambulance was trying to make its way through the congestion of Highway 1 at this time. While I did not see the ambulance stop this time, I did see it slow to parking lot speed as it tried to navigate clear passage.
How frustrating. How unsafe. How unnecessary. Stop the nonsense. Widen the highway."
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Note photographs - protest of highway 1 widening from Pacifica Riptide by Bob Pilgrim, ambulance from Tribune, Chandigarh India.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
31 comments:
March 26th. The person in the back of the ambulance was dying.
The "gang of no" are still saying these two events never took place.
I really don't understand the reasoning of Todd, Peter Loeb and the rest of that group. We know people have medical emergencies and there are house fires. We know there is traffic congestion that delays emergency response. And we know any delay can mean a very bad outcome. Are they saying this never happens? Or there is no traffic? Or ambulances and fire trucks aren't held up?
Hutch
It's about controling city council and whispering in their ears. John Curtis, used to call Pete, and tell him what to say.
It's the old keep saying the same lies over and over and people start to believe them.
Peter Loeb says he has been doing what he knows is best for Pacifica for the past 35 years and city council should listen to him more.
Watch the wavelengths show with Bohner and Butler. Every topic they bring up they do a sly laugh.
Carmel has the same or maybe more artists and nimbys but the Carmel nimbys know a city needs revenue to pay for goods and services.
Only Pacifica should stay poor cause they like it that way.
7.5 million gallons of poop spilled out of the plant and by the plant managers own words,"we almost lost the plant that night"
Not one of the enviromental family said a word. When the city was fined, not a word. When My childrens earth sued them and won, not a word.
Are you saying the speeding cars flying through these super-wide intersections won't kill and maim people caught trying to cross the highway? Why do you refuse to address this possibility? Why don't you admit that is the real safety issue!!
10:19
And you can roll out of bed and break your neck. Or slip and fall in the shower.
The sky is falling the sky is falling. Chicken little has spoken!
Odd that some people worry about ambulances and firetrucks in traffic (surprise! we all do) but have no concern about pedestrians, including school kids, dog walkers, seniors and families, crossing a very wide, busy freeway. I guess their concern for their fellow man has limits and exceptions. Widening that road without including a design modification for a safe, elevated crossing at Vallemar and at Fassler is outrageous. That kind of high-handed, slipshod treatment from Caltrans is no surprise, they don't want pedestrians on their freeways and they don't plan for them, but from fellow Pacificans?
Maybe another public safety issue (they are not mutually exclusive, you know?) will coax Council out of its burrow. We know you're in there.
The pros and cons of the highway widening are self-evident, It is a threat to our business community, our quality of life and the safety of pedestrians. The real "gang of no to logic" will do or say anything in order to gain influence policy making in Pacifica when it stands between them and potential real estate profits.
Their irrational, radical point of view relying on name calling and personal insults through conduits like "Fix Pacifica" has won them an undeserved place at the table of public policy in Pacifica and needs to be strongly countered. Those Who are promoting a "can't we all just get along" position don't realize they've brought a knife to a political gunfight, actually more like a wet noodle. Time to wake up and smell the coffee Pacifica, these ne're do wells are playing hardball.
535 You think anyone with basic reasoning skills believes it's all about ambulances stuck in traffic? It's just the latest battle in the same old war. Always follow the money. Always.
No proof anyone has ever had a problem crossing the highway or that adding some lanes will make it dangerous. Just the latest ploy from the gang of no to throw a wrench in the process.
How about common sense? Or do you need an body count? Is that for pedestrians only?
Money money MONEY!
"Who turned the "gang of no" dogs out? 109, 535, 610, etc.-- so your twisted "con" game comments are back to "its a busy freeway", and scares about kids, dogs, seniors, and families. And Caltrans plotting against "all of the above", bad, bad, bad (laughably stated by an anonymous prior).
Yes our continuing San Mateo County Measure A tax monies will be spent on fixing our highway, rather than just building trails and bicycle lanes. The State of CA Dept. of Transportation, Caltrans, has now fully researched and vetted the project, so its at the final stage, build. The highway widening includes traffic lights, and the design is good (simple and efficient). The State (Caltrans) builds reliable roads throughout CA, so there is no reason to believe Pacifica is "special" (as in "the sky falling").
If the "gang of no" were really concerned about the cost of updating the 1.3 miles of our highway, they would not be driving-up cost with their delays and lawsuits, would they?
Can't you just see Kathy looking over her shoulder at kids in the back seat and saying..Don't you make me stop this car! Oh yes.
Why don't the no-burys take a quick trip down to that bastion of progressiveness HMB and see how all the kids and adults and seniors are able to manage getting across the highway at the Hwy 1 and 92 interchange. Try the trip at lunch. Dinner. Rush hour.
We all like to tout how great HMB is. They fixed their section of Hwy. In fact, if you really want to debunk the "the new repair will destroy Pacifica" please take notice that HMB did basically the same thing. Why are we so special that it won't work here?
El Camino Real in San Bruno. Over 1000 units put in across from Tanforan and traffic moves through the area better than before. The Tanforan owners and the senior and market rent apartment builders all got together with Caltrans and the city and figured out a logical solution.
That is what is wrong with Pacifica, the "gang of no" know it all and City Council is hypontised by them.
Because Mr Peabody, the gang of no, nimby nobe's don't really care what this project looks like, or about school kids crossing, a couple of businesses closing or less traffic. Those are just tools in their real goal of stopping this at any cost because they believe a wider highway will induce growth. That's what is behind the lawsuits and "alternative" non workable options they keep throwing up.
Now I see they are opposing a new project on Gypsy Hill for 26 units I think. Before that it was The Rock. And more recently Todd Bray delayed a hotel expansion for no good reason. They oppose all growth and every project.
And they wonder why we call them the gang of no.
Hutch
Not one of them said a word about the sewer plant. The only griping they did is the Vallemar "gang of no" would complain the wind blows the sewer plant smell into Vallemar.
None of them answer when you ask them about the city's pension problem $35 million,How is the city going to pay for a $30 million dollar library, or $50 million to fix the poop plant.
When tough questions are asked over on Riptide they avoid the question or post gibberish to bury the post and or questions.
Someone compared Pacifica to Carmel. At this point Pacifica wishes it was Seaside!
137, we're late. The gang of no "kids in the back seat" told lies about the city again (this time the highway improvement), and they had to stay after school.
Kathy, if you're going to drive liars around, you're going to need a
much bigger vehicle. Section it off for both sides of any and every Pacifica issue. Don't forget the doggie-door.
Yeah, stinking up Vallemar with a WWTP sure didn't bother the hippies in West Sharp Park. And, oh look, absolutely nothing has been done with the quarry or Beach Blvd. Saved from development, again!
Wait who said it was the sewer plant that stunk in Sharp Park?
I always thought that was the hippies?
It still stinks. Underground all the wires you want, it still stinks. Especially on overcast, windless days.
Ha, Fog or no fog, Sharp Park hasn't stunk since we palmed off that sewer plant on Vallemar.
Sure. It must be a state-of-the-art pit. Scientists say we adjust to foul odors in our regular environment and no longer notice them. And of course a better site for the fabled 'luxury boutique hotel' doesn't exist. That active pump in the basement is an added amenity rarely found in LBHs. It has to stay. perfect for a public building like a library.
It's called acclamation 849. I remember it in the 80's in Sharp Park. But you still got a whiff now and then and whenever friends visited they would ask what that smell was.
No more smell in Sharp Park since they moved the sewer plant. Thanks Vallemar.
Humans can acclimate to just about anything.
The Sharp Park Waste Water Treatment plant was sold to the city as being "state of the art" also.
Pacifica sued the company that built the old Sharp Park plant and settled for $2million. It turned out that what was supposed to be a wastewater treatment plant was actually an off-the-shelf water treatment plant (different type of treatment). It never worked properly for wastewater treatment.
The city got the 2 million and the residents suffered with the smell.
Then got another plant with the smell.
The taxpayers paid for both sewer plants.
Who won here?
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