Truck Route to Bypass Downtown Port Angeles?
At a City Council hearing this past Tuesday, City Engineer Mike Puntenney unveiled the capital improvement plan and transportation improvement program, which includes replacing the Lauridsen Boulevard Bridge. Attendees expressed concern that this new bridge would pave the way for a Race Street/Lauridsen Blvd. truck route that would send trucks past the library, the skate park, the Dream Playground, Civic Field and Jefferson School.
The public hearing will be continued to June 19th.
The public hearing will be continued to June 19th.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:49 AM
34 Comments:
Appears to me that because of the log yard, paper mill, Westport, ferry, and other industries on or near the waterfront that most big trucks will still have to be downtown area anyway.
I'm not clear on how spending money on a new truck route will fix anything, better hire an outside consulting firm.
Or move downtown businesses to higher and safer ground and use the waterfront as an industrial area.
finally, we need a by-pass as bad as we need a knew president.
The PDN article said:
"West said the Port Angeles Forward Committee around 2008 had “strongly recommended moving forward with the alternate route, which was followed by city staff incorporating it into the comprehensive plan.”"
Well, that explains a lot. The 2008 council,led by Mayor KR and City Manager Madsen, also brought us HarborWorks.
Nathan West is a product of these people and should be removed immediately from his post. So should the public works director.
As has been said before, city Staff is plodding along, doing what they want regardless of what the people or council want.
In reading the story, we see they are proceeding with implementing THEIR plans. There was no retreat offered. Just the usual "bla-bla".
To his credit, DannyBoy Digulio seems to have learned from what has happened previously, and warned that we be mindful of how these project proceed one piece at a time, until there is no turning back.
Port Angeles deserves the city government it votes for. Whine as you wish, you always end up paying the bill.
Once we bankrupt PA Michigan style, and fire all the city workers Wisconsin style, I hope Nippon hires BBC to reorganize things around here. Which would pretty much involve hiring ten bull dozers and ten dump trucks. Six months?
Geez, ten bulldozers? Okay, but make it twenty dump trucks and an ass kicking conveyor.
Really, you fools just don't get it, waterfronts in this modern age are best used as industrial areas.
Wait, they were best used as industrial areas 200 years ago also. What goes around comes around, if you are ever willing to learn from history.
But you fools love to buck history. Carry on.....
"Really, you fools just don't get it, waterfronts in this modern age are best used as industrial areas."
Yes, I can think of examples all over the world where the city is best known for its' industrialized areas, particularly their waterfronts.
I see that is the case in Victoria, nearby. No tourists, or business activities in the Inner Harbor. Same in Hawaii. They show us that waterfront property IS best used for logyards and such. If only those stupid city folks would come to Port Angeles, and learn how to be successful.
Someone on Fox the other day was saying that law enforcement union thugs are behind most useless road projects.
What downtown needs is some type of useful alert system. Drivers are just too brash these days. I know those beeping things are helpful, but some of us are hard of hearing. My husband and I sure wish they would make them louder and install more. Several communities on the east coast, to prevent people from bumping their heads on those heavy retail glass doors, shopkeepers are mandated to install those beeping devices when the doors are ajar. My sister in West Orange says they are ok, but just not loud enough.
Where is Sherlock Holmes when you need him? Or a Forensic Psychic? Those aren't that expensive are they? Seems if they brought some intuition to the area, can't hurt.
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Wonder what he cropped out of the photo? Will we really have wireless everywhere soon?
An ounce of prevention is worth...
...no, you can fool me...no....oh, shit.
We are not Victoria !!!
Never mind, it's stupid to talk to others, I'm going back to my cave.
It's so nice to know that our City leaders (or at least our City staffers) are still following through on a "vision" that came out of the corrupt, discredited and long-gone Rogers-Madsen crowd. With that sort of forward-thinking mentality holding sway in City Hall, we may have them fancy new indoor outhouses in PA within a year or two!
Port Angeles is just such a waste of space.
The proposed truck route is a fucking joke. Keep 101 as the truck route and move the downtown businesses to higher ground.
Well, 101 goes up Lincoln but if you remap it to go up the Tumwater truck route, the alternate 101 that would make a lot more sense.
But the nitwits guiding us for some reason thinks that it's important for them to save downtown businesses. So move them, it doesn't it would cost less to do that than to try to make a truck route that would become a joke when most truck traffic has to go to the waterfront area anyway.
Your leaders appear to be well educated and intelligent, those two words have diddly shit to do with wisdom.
Let's not lose sight of the real program here. This is about grant money that Glenn Cutler wants to give to the usual suspects. It has nothing to do with logic or reality.
Look how much they wasted on the "Gateway" project. 99% of the time, the place is dead empty.
But, that millions in grant money went to.. well, you know who.
Yes, Cutler is the enemy. The last figurehead standing from the Dark Ages of Rogers, Williams, Madsen, etc. Get rid of him and the city will be much, much improved.
As we can see from the article on the city moving ahead to build it's truck route up Race Street and across Lauridsen, the city doesn't care what its' residents want.
Cutler may not be an "enemy", but he sure doesn't care what the residents think or want. And the City Council gives Cutler what he wants, every time.
"The City Council gives Cutler what he wants every time." Unfortunately, that is true. But seldom are the votes unanimous anymore. Next election, replace Patrick Downey with somebody more like Sissi Bruch, and maybe the majority of the council members will have the backbone to stand up to Cutler and his ilk.
Down with Downie!
Truck Route to Bypass Downtown Port Angeles?
I think it's a great idea!
BTW, I do live in town.
Funny how years pass, and city council members come and go. But the staff endures them all, and continue with their agendas, no matter what.
People come along to run for office. They always promise THEY will be the agents of "change". THEY will not continue with "business as usual".
But, once in office, they fall into line, and things don't change.
And, Cutler knows this. Relies on this. He doesn't care. He doesn't have to care.
The only way the taxpayer can get rid of Cutler and all his cronies at City Hall, is to kick out the Unions and fire them all. We need a city manager like Wisconsin's governor.
"The only way the taxpayer can get rid of Cutler and all his cronies at City Hall, is to kick out the Unions and fire them all."
Wow. This really says it all. The "Race to the Bottom" in this country is well underway, led by people like this.
Care to let us all know how, exactly, the Unions are responsible for Cutler's actions?
Anonymous said...
"The only way the taxpayer can get rid of Cutler and all his cronies at City Hall, is to kick out the Unions and fire them all. We need a city manager like Wisconsin's governor."
This is just another person who has no clue.
HERE'S A COOL DEAL. I just might do that on the 30th. You can also sign up for a free birthday dinner at Smugglers Landing.
The Cutler-Union connection is unclear. Whether the city employees belonged to unions or not, Cutler would still be a bully and a creep.
A big business jet just flew in, you peons get back to work, they expect you to help pay for their airport expansion.
Hmmmm, let's see. All this crime and all these scumbags openly wandering around our town on foot and their cars, if you call them that, flapping their jaws, causing tension (I'm talking certain areas of certain areas - violent crime is trending down nationally, lets keep this in perspective) and teabaggers and Romney, are openly trashing cops, teachers, and firefighters. Wow.
haha, you folks are all so out of touch
@ 6:16 AM.... And you are?
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. You may think you’re smart but I say you are just educated.
BBC you are an idiot
Billy, I think you're giving Anon 6:16 WAYYY too much credit. I don't see anything smart about their comments.
He's back!!! Be sure to catch Larry Williams' letter to the editor in today's PDN. His letter is a lecture on - and I can barely keep from laughing out loud as I type this - Biblical principles. Hah!
I guess the Bible doesn't have anything to say about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, or anything about humility and modesty, because Larry Williams is one of the most rude and arrogant people I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. And now he's a Biblical scholar? Uh, yeah, sure.
Like Sinatra once said, keep those cards and letters coming, Larry - we can always use a good laugh!
Hallelujah!
oh, Gawd. Another reason not to subscribe to the PDN: a LTE from Larry.
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