Anonymous
March 9, 2023, 12:50 pm
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By an edhat reader
I thought the point of the Mission Street construction at San Pascual and Modoc Streets was to create a bike friendly route, but it currently looks like they only widened the sidewalk by a tiny amount.
What are they really doing there and when will it be done?
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The construction at that location is to create a more bike and pedestrian-friendly path, and also to comply with ADA requirements. It may seem like it is taking a long time, but I can tell you from first-hand experience that these projects do not magically complete themselves overnight. Quite the contrary from the publics point of view. The project will be done soon enough, but keep in mind that the recent weather has hampered many a local project (and everywhere else that has been hit with heavy rains/snow). In no time at all we can all enjoy the finished product that will be rendered at the end of the day.
FYI: If you ever are going to have a project done to your own home, you need to double the amount of time that is expected to complete the project. Why? I don’t know exactly why, but that is what happens on about 90% of the projects. Like they say: %&it Happens!
That’s no longer a sidewalk between Modoc and San Pascual, that’s now a MULTI USE PATH. Aka, a bike path that pedestrians can also use. Wait til you see what they’re gonna do at the intersection with San Pascual! It’s nonsensical
The City has done an absolutely terrible job with public outreach for this project. The website is horribly out of date, and it is difficult to tell what is what from the few images they have posted.
This boondoggle has been discussed on Edhat for two years. It is a grossly expensive sell out to the bicycle lobby at the sacrifice of local residents and the community at large. The multi use pathway means that pedestrians and bicycle riders will “share the space” (which is only slightly wider than the preexisting sidewalk) because bicycle riders are too lazy and selfish to get off and walk to San Pascual (maybe 50 yards). But when this is finished it is a bridge to nowhere anyway as once under the freeway Mission narrows so much that it is a hazard to motor vehicles and trucks, no room for bikes for sure. The cost of this was hundreds of thousands of dollars, the elimination of seven or so decades old Jacaranda trees, a few parking spaces and the safety of locals trying to walk on this heavily used path. Oscar Gutierrez failed to protect the people of his district and sold out to the bicycle lobby and the city technocrats. He should never be elected to any other office.
Add to this list of bad things about this project that they did not even remove the ugly telephone poles that were exposed by the cutting down of the trees. Had they done this bit of esthetic improvement to this street it would have ameliorated the evil of this project a bit.
Boondoggle, indeed. I drive through it every day, and years ago was posting photos here of the before and after with the lovely trees, who stood as valiant stumps for a year, trying to resurrect. It does not make a clear wider bicycle path, ostensibly the whole point. Yet another sacrifice to the NWO Agenda 21 bicycle madness. I’ve lived here long enough to see the one-way streets go in, and now they are converted to one-lane. So while the cars creep slowly along the bicycle lane is empty as far as the eye can see. “The state of a city’s government is revealed by the state of its streets.”