Carlotta: Lotta Cars
“It doesn’t join us to any common industry, or to any booming areas,” he said. “And the fact that it was initiated by a person concerned about the safety of kids going to school, and it doesn’t even incorporate a school speed zone and school crossing zone, doesn’t make sense.”
Caltrans project manager Richard Mullen said Monday morning that the project is on hold now so that his team can look into the residents’ concerns.
“I understand where they’re coming from,” Mullen said. “It’s a big impact to their community. We are taking a step back to see how we can minimize that, if at all.”
Mullen said, however, that the community has to work with the California Highway Patrol and the county on speed limit issues and school crossing zones. And everyone would have to be involved in flood control.
“We, too, are very concerned about the drainage,” he said. “We can’t fix it ourselves. It needs to involve the property owners, the Army Corps of Engineers, Fish and Game and County of Humboldt.”
If the residents don’t support the project in the end, some of them might refuse to sign agreements for the expanded easements. Instead, said Warren, they might force Caltrans to try to exercise eminent domain — if the highway wants his land, he says, they can try to take it from him in court.
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Comment / By unanonymous / Nov. 5, 2009, 5:40 p.m.
flood control! that town is a floodplain.
Comment / By Thirdeye / Nov. 5, 2009, 8:37 p.m.
It’s burg as in town, not berg as in mountain.
There used to be an outfit called Save Old Arcata Road opposed to the widening project. The widening made the road safer. Highway 36 is the most dangerous road in Humboldt County.
Comment / By Jeff Musgrave / Nov. 8, 2009, 1:10 p.m.
Safer?
How is making a road “faster” the same as making the road “safer”? This makes no sense.
Looking at the above comments, Caltrans must be pissed about this article.
Great job Heidi!
For information on another over-priced and unnecessary road fix that Caltrans is promoting using dirty tricks and deceptive information, visit:
http://saverichardsongrove.org/ http://saverichardsongrove.blogspot.com/
Comment / By Tim Daniels / Nov. 11, 2009, 10:39 p.m.
The shoulder can be widened without widening the lane. There are designs that can calm traffic, slow it down, while increasing room for pedestrians and cyclists. When is the last time you ventured through Cloverdale? They narrowed the traffic lanes on what used to be 101 using median islands, and bulb-outs, and reduced the speed limit to 25 mph. It’s much more friendly to walk and bike through town now.
http://www.beachcalifornia.com/cloverdale-california.html