City of Port Angeles to Purchase Street-Fixing Machine
The Port Angeles City Council has authorized the purchase of a street crack sealing machine, which will cost $61,000. City staff says more than 75% of Port Angeles' streets are in "poor" or "failed" condition, and that crack sealing can add three to eight years to the life of a street.
posted by Tom Harper at 10:39 AM
22 Comments:
It seems like a reasonable purchase.
I'd like to see more bike lanes on major streets around town. My particular commuting route has bike lanes on the 8th street bridges but not on the block between them so I have to merge into traffic and delay vehicles for a block each way, during rush hour.
As far as I know city policy is to not add bike lanes unless they're already doing other work on a section of street, and even then they have to consider whether there is enough room. That block between the bridges would probably end up losing all the parking for bike lanes so it's never going to happen.
And before you bitch about bicyclists not paying their share for the roads: I have a driver's license and drive my car too. I won't pay for another license to ride my bike until I get the same level of support that vehicles do.
On the other hand I'm right there with you bitching about bicyclists that don't know and follow the rules of the road.
Well, we read the article a year or two ago about how the city had deferred maintenance of its' streets, so that it could spend the money on other pet projects and studies.
I'm sure they are waiting for some grant or another.
The staff suck!
Yes, the staff suck, and Dan Gase will suck up to them in a BIG way.
So - did the city not seal pavement cracks in the past? Or, did they hire private companies such as Lakeside Industries to do this work? Who will operate the new equipment? Will the city have to hire staff to run the machine?
I presume the cost effectiveness of this idea was fully considered and discussed by the city council.
NOT!
The majority on the council simply smile and ask how high when staff tell them to jump.
I'm all for whatever will halt the proliferation of street crack in Port Angeles, the once thriving town of my 1970s formative years. What's not to like here?
11:28 - Yes, people who don't pay for "their fare share of the road" deserve to be bitched at!
Just kidding. You sound like a first class douche: speaking of inappropriate colon usage.
I think you are a teabagger, "attempting" to be progressive. And it just doesn't work, sorry.
Right there with ya dude! ...VOMIT....
I think highly unlikely that a "teabagger" would ride a bicycle.
You seem to see "teabaggers" everywhere. There are places on 8th Street which can help you with your paranoias and delusions.
"I'm all for whatever will halt the proliferation of street crack in Port Angeles.."
LOL! I'm not sure a pavement sealing machine will impress the tweekers much. I think Port Angeles will continue to have as much crack on the streets as it ever has, with or without this machine.
@ 11:46
If you're going to point out the grammatical errors of others then you'd best not make spelling errors of your own: "fare" vs "fair"
I'm not a teabagger or a progressive. Labels like that are useless.
So - under Glenn Cutler's/Mark Madsen-Kent Myers/reigns the streets and alleys in Port Angeles were completely neglected since 2005 in favor of spending money on a new $15 million dollar bus stop, a multi-million dollar fancy sidewalk along the waterfront, a new Lauridsen Bridge to replace one that was only forty or so years old and perfectly sound for the type of traffic it carried, a $750,000 trail footbridge, etc.
Is it a sign of hope that perhaps the new public works director perhaps noticed the neglect of the streets and alleys and wants to find ways to do his duty?
The other day I was downtown and saw a couple of teabaggers pretending to be normal people. I started yelling at them. "I know what you are! I know what you are!!" They said they were just trying to pay for parking. I yelled "don't try to be progressive! Vomit! VOMIT!!"
I figured this was okay because down the road some guy was yelling at window shoppers because they were just Max Mania under a different alias.
Welcome to Port Angeles folks!
@11:28 I'm right there with you. I used to commute to work via bicycle and gave it up because it was way too dangerous. Things have gotten better since then. More bike lanes, better awareness... Cars even stop for pedestrians nowadays!
I'd love to see more greenways, more dedicated areas for walking and bicycling. I'd be willing to pay taxes for that, but not as things stand now. Besides, I AM paying taxes... Property, sales, gas. This notion that bicyclists don't pay any taxes is ridiculous. The notion that bicycles take the same space or create the same wear and tear is ridiculous.
But the tide is turning, slowly. Unfortunately with more bicyclists you get more idiots. I used to always take bicyclists side. Now I'm agreeing with motorists over half the time. I've seen bicyclists run reds, cross the highway into traffic, ride on the sidewalk, turning into pedestrians... all without being aware of their surroundings. Bicyclists are getting as bad as drivers!
I think the complainers are right... both from bicyclists and drivers. The state has gotten a lot better, but they still have a lot to do to make bicyclists happy. Cars and bicyclists and pedestrians need to be aware of their surroundings and learn to respect each other. Someday we may have to consider a bicycle tax, especially as the tax from fossil fuels (hopefully) declines.
Port Angeles has a LONG way to go, before it will be ANY kind of place to raise a family.
Unless you like your kids to be, well.. 'nuff said.
I went to the Beer Fest in Victoria, yesterday. Wow! What an event. The place was packed. People were lined up 3 blocks long, waiting to get in.
Thousands of people being mellow, tasting all kinds of different beers. They gave everyone a bus ticket going in, so nobody had to worry about driving "impaired".
Sure different than the events I've gone to in Port Angeles.
Port Angeles is an abortion. It's backwards. Cursed. Doomed. Extinct. Fucked. A graveyard. Hopeless. Run by idiots. Only fit for junkies. No place for kids. Lost. A mess.
I think you get the idea. Maybe the Chamber of Commerce could run an "Alphabet of Ideas" contest to describe just how truly awful, bad and cancerous Port Angeles is, and will be.
4:34 in response to 11:28 - BULLSHIT! I've never had a bicycle "almost" hit me in Port Angeles.
Assholes. Fucking, unmitigated assholes.
A big fun beer fest in Port Angeles? I don't think that is going to happen while the likes of Cherie Kidd and others like her are around, she doesn't drink and likes her catlick church stuff.
So you can just forget big beer fests and whorehouses and blow jobs. After all, she would never admit to sucking on a dick. :-)
A few weeks ago I was riding my bike on 8th and some asshole in a big red truck passed me so close that I was able to easily pound on his truck canopy with my fist. Cliff something-or-other Construction is what it said on the side. I don't know if he was intentionally menacing me or just oblivious. Now I make an effort to "control the lane" in situations where it isn't safe to stay to the side and it's pretty routine for drivers to get pissed off and rev their engines as they are finally able to pass me. Of course I give them the finger they so rightly deserve.
Other drivers like to stop traffic for me when I'm the one with a stop sign, straddling my bike in the road and waiting to cross the intersection just like a car would, not standing beside my bike at the crosswalk like a pedestrian. It happens at least once a week and I have to signal them to keep going. It's great because all the people behind them see me as the cause of their being delayed. Yet again it's the bicyclist's fault.
Seattle has a great beerfest every year, just like the Victoria one. There was a beerfest over in Blyn recently but I skipped it since listening to roaring chainsaw carving isn't my idea of a good, relaxing time.
@ 8:42:
Oh, the wet tube-top contest makes up for it! Next year they will have a contest for the gals too!
I wave the "polite" drivers on as well. Unless they are the only car around. Never lived in a city that had good bike lanes nor good drivers, so I sort of like biking here for transportation.
Cliff Smith construction????
"There was a beerfest over in Blyn recently but I skipped it since listening to roaring chainsaw carving isn't my idea of a good, relaxing time."
Makes the point. Different cultural values.
Can you imagine the mayhem that would result if there was any kind of beer fest in Port Angeles? The young bucks that drive around with those huge "White Power" stickers on their lifted trucks would go nuts. They would have to call in the National Guard to gets things back in control.
You can't expect a "nice relaxing time" from a community that gets all revved up about screaming engines as entertainment!
Now, "Honey Boo Boo"? THAT'S entertainment.
Still waiting to see Port Angeles' highlighted in the national/international media with ABC's "20/20" episode about the Gales Addition bulldozer rampage.
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