| Greener keener on stalled traffic |
| Sometimes I don't listen to real experts |
"Learning the alphabet soup of government and more details about grant writing, newly elected Pacifica City Councilman John Keener checks in with the Tribune about how those first few months are going.
.... Have your ideas changed about what you think is the biggest issue facing Pacifica? No, I think the most important issue facing us is widening Highway 1. Next in line, in my view, is the general plan update.
What have you learned since taking office? What has been reinforced is listening. Nearly everyone is more expert in their field than I am. So, I want to take advantage of such expertise by learning all that I can. Read article.
Note photographs. Car crash from WFSB, Connecticut News 3, face page leading to website only. Stalled traffic from Alamy, The Telegraph, UK, 4/18/12, article .
Submitted by Jim Wagner
Posted by Kathy Meeh
19 comments:
Another empty chair on city council.
7:20 Let's see how "empty a chair" Keener is after his term in office compared to say - Len Stone. But of course you're well thought out snap judgement indicates you've got a short attention span so thanks for playing.
8:29
Keener the greener won cause he opposed Highway 1 widening and bowed down and kissed ass to the noobees and nimbys.
859 That's brilliant. I wondered how he got elected. Thanks.
So the most important concern is stopping the highway repair. Not our infrastructure that is crumbling, our budget mess, or our economic malaise. Brilliant. The power of the nobies at it's zenith.
Ok ok ok Carl. All of them. Happy?
Wasn't Keener involved in some movement to stop a development in Newport Beach? I believe that is where he is from.
If Keener still wants to stop the Highway widening, then he wasn't out this weekend. It took me 1 1/2hours to get from Park Pacifica to Half Moon Bay at 4:15 pm Saturday night and 45 minutes to get from Sharp Park Road to Park Pacifica Sunday at noon. Most of the coastside traffic is not coming this way on the weekend so throw that increase in always. Mr. Keener, time to stand up to your nimby friends so the rest of us can live a more peaceful existence.
Anonymous 1:08pm said "It took me 1 1/2hours to get from Park Pacifica to Half Moon Bay at 4:15 pm Saturday night and 45 minutes to get from Sharp Park Road to Park Pacifica Sunday at noon."
Do please explain how widening the highway around Vallemar will change the timing to get from Park Pacifica to Half Moon Day. A long weekend, warm summer like weather and a beautiful day to be on the coast caused traffic all up and down California.
I came up from Santa Cruz yesterday, and the Southbound traffic was bumper to bumper all the way to Half Moon Bay, so the widening would not have made any difference.
Saturday at 4:10 I got on I-80 at the Albany racetrack. I was in bumper to bumper traffic until I cleared Hospital Curve In S.F. Clear sailing all the rest of the way home. the only wait time I had in Pacifica was for the right-hand turn light at Fassler. A 45 min. trip that became a two hour ordeal.
The reason was that Cal-trans and the bridge designer did not take the position of the winter sun into account when they laid out the bridge. Nobody could see more then one car ahead of them.
I still have a massive headache and very tired eyes.
The long line of traffic on Hwy 1 is due to the bridge replacement at Linda Mar, everyone with eyes knows that. Combined with warm weather weekend it made for gridlock. Why not blame Caltrans for the poor planning?
Also where is the Pacifica Police on days like this? The could help with traffic management as the lights aren't timed (I suppose) for the heavier traffic on Hwy 1.
Will you all stop complaining. Peter Loeb said we don't have traffic.
I tried to drive south on Highway 1 to the gym on Crespi around 2 PM today. I got on at Sharp Park, and traffic was so slow that I gave up and turned around at Fairview.
Friggin' hippies.
Thomas how did you do? Were the ponies good to you?
I'll never tell!!! The IRS is everywhere
Steve Sinai - it ain't the hippies who were out on the highway today. They know better than to drive down the coast on a sunny Sunday of a 3-day weekend. And as others have said, widening the highway would do nothing to ease this traffic congestion, much of which was caused by the detour around the San Pedro bridge construction. Just imagine the years-long traffic jam that would be created by construction to double the width of the highway between Vallemar and Rockaway.
Jeese, Don't ask Steve or any of the other Fixxies to use their imagination for anything. It gives them hives.
2:21
Some people should never mention Donuts. Not now not ever
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