Saturday, September 5, 2020

First lawsuit over Blakespear's bike hazards

There will be more. But I don't think Blakespear will back down until she kills somebody.

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  1. The no backdown includes all the city council.

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  2. Mayor Blakespear is the blame for all of these lawsuits and hazardous city conditions. Even her BFF is sueing the city for her bicycle accident. BLAME BLAKESPEAR! How about this; spend more money on fixing our roads and less on dangerous experimental bike lanes.

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  3. Now they can't remove these hazards, as it would constitute an admission of their inherent danger. Elect a clown for Mayor and you've got a circus.

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  4. First Unsafe Street that cause Roberta Walkers injuries by being mowed down, yet the City does nothing and the same accident will likely happen in the near future. Where is the needed streetscape?

    Now more and more law suites from this. they will fix it, its just a matter of time and big money.

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    1. Walker was not "mowed down." She was riding in the sharrow lane in the dark before sunrise, a truck overtook her from behind and hit her. The driver was not charged.

      There are sharrow lanes through downtown Encinitas, across the Cardiff flats and southbound through Solana Beach.

      If Leucadia 101 Streetscape is built, there will be two southbound traffic lanes from Phoebe to Leucadia Blvd., which means the right lane will be a sharrow.

      Walker was between Phoebe and West Glaucus when she was struck in the sharrow lane that will still be a sharrow lane if Streetscape is built.

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    2. Walker was mowed down and you do not know shit.

      Wrong about streetscape completely. It will be one lane in each direction with a separate bike lane.

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    3. Look at the drawings, 7:59. Ignorance doesn't pay.

      Two lanes southbound from Phoebe to Leuc Blvd.

      Walker was not "mowed down." Tragic she was hit, but she shares the fault.

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    4. Seems like its being kept pretty hush hush. The latest info I could find was a coast news article from April 1st of last year. It stated that damage claims were filed which is a required first step before a suit can be filed. The city had 46 days to either accept liability or reject the claims. Would be interested to know if anyone knows if the cities response is available to the public. The claim is putting all responsibility on the city saying “There existed a dangerous condition of public property, including but not limited to the following: the pavement markings that were present were confusing and distracting to both drivers and bicyclists; the signage that was present was confusing and distracting to both drivers and bicyclists; there was an absence of proper pavement markings and signage; and there was no separate bicycle lane creating a dangerous condition on public property.” The article also states “Walker, an avid cyclist and advocate of city bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects, was hit about 6 a.m. Dec. 8. Not to sound insensitive to Robertas injuries...I’m sorry this happened. However I do feel it is important that everything is looked at in this case as it could open a Pandora’s box for future lawsuits against the city as more and more cyclists are attracted to the area. Firstly I have a hard time believing that Roberta an avid cyclist and advocate of bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects was confused about any road markings or signage along coast highway. From what I’ve read she regularly rode this stretch of coast highway. It is possible that the driver of the truck was confused. I’m sure the sheriffs collected a detailed statement from him that could help clarify a lot in this case. I don’t believe any such statement has been made publicly available as of yet. I was on the scene within a couple of minutes of the accident as it happened directly in front of my house. I stood within a few feet of the driver of the truck for close to 30 minutes and he did not appear to be intoxicated. I would assume he would have been arrested if so (don’t believe he was) and he most likely was given some sort of sobriety test at the scene. Assuming he was not intoxicated I assume it would be considered an accident with the investigation shifting towards who was actually at fault. The driver, Roberta or the city. Or combination of 2 or all 3. A few days after the incident I saw sheriff’s deputies conducting an investigation at the scene so I walked over and offered to be interviewed and provide pictures I had on my phone. The first question I was asked was whether or not I saw a light on her helmet. Or reflectors on the bike. I told the officer I did not see any. It’s possible that some reflectors could have been detached from the bike during the impact but cant say for certain. She still had her helmet on and I did not notice any light on it. If a thorough investigation was conducted that info should be in the report and entered as evidence in any emerging trial. The accident occurred just before sunrise. If it is revealed that Roberta’s bicycle was not equipped with the required equipment for riding at night then I’m not sure the city could be held responsible. I did read a report a while back stating the she did have a light on her helmet and reflectors but I can’t find that report now. I did find it odd that this was reported as have not been able to find any accident report available online. I guess we will see if and when it goes to trial.

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    5. Ick. There is nothing worse than Janet ramble. Who cares what you feel?! Shut TFU! No one cares what you think or feel because you have no logic. Now go yell at someone for not wearing a mask or parking in front of your house.

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  5. Who else remembers when Encinitas Undercover wasn't an even shittier version of Encinitas Votes?

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    1. Threatened much? Comments like yours give me hope.

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  6. Given the S. Cardiff fiasco/mega liability is there anyone left in this town beside this council who thinks the city should be trusted with Streetscape? Can be trusted?

    This mayor and her mini-me council need to go along with at least one other trusted advisor who comes to mind.

    ABC
    ABT
    ABK
    ABM

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  7. 8:08- clueless as usual. you are probably looking at old drawings. The final design is one lane south except at Leucadia Blvd.

    I hope you stay inside all day today.

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    1. 7:27 You don't know what you're talking about. The drawings show two lanes southbound from Phoebe to Leuc Blvd. You haven't looked at them.

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  8. I agree that the current City Council needs to go. The current Mayor's support for inviting and supporting more homeless, promoting overdevelopment of our coast line, and telling the citizens to F off and have huge lawsuits is pinnacle.

    2nd to those items is the streets are a mess and really unsafe. The streetscape is needed or more will continue to be killed and maimed.

    I'm voting again all incumbents and just hoping the new Council will have more common sense about priorities for our City.

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    1. You left out changing zoning to ghetto apartments in parts of the city. All of us in Olivenhain will vote them out and perhaps the next will have some logic/sense.

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  9. Don;t forget they are all Biden voters burning down cities, murdering and maiming innocents, closing businesses and schools. Self serving power starved democrats want yours and your children's lives completely destroyed.

    I was a democrat before this cycle.

    I will now vote for orange man and anyone with an even slight red or orange hue.

    Half a brain cell beats getting your business and/or house/cities burned down I suppose.

    #walkaway from the losers+++



    Zero fks given to all you clownworld democrats.


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    1. I am 9:20. I believe the bullshit Trump spews and all the nonsense I hear on Fox. I am an idiot.

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    2. 11:39 - No, I am the real 9:20 and truth-be-told, I've never voted before. The meth rotted more than my teeth... but I found religion and I'd like to get some of that pool boy service 'cus that what real religion is about these days - prosperity and getting your freaky nut waxed.
      Trumpy is a total asshole, liar, coward but I will vote for him because he is everything I aspire to be.

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  10. The blank eyed leftist destroy EVERYTHING THEY DO. Just look at newsom and California. He is a fool.
    Seattle, Portland, L.A, D.C, N.Y City, as examples. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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    1. Those cities provide like all the money to the broke ass republitard states. Just about every republican state is broke and supported by liberal states. Thats why the economy sucks ass with every single republitard admin. The mental disorder is yours as a trump cuck. You can wrap yourself in the dudes name all you want but your wife don’t want to fuck him while you watch, just ask her.

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    2. 10:42 You should take economics again in a school that has majors besides liberal arts. If you think California and New York support the rest of the country you are an idiot.

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    3. 3:13,

      Top 5 donor states are all blue states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Colorado.

      Top 5 moocher states are all red: Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio.

      Blue states are the economic growth engine of the US economy. They have invented life-saving medical drugs and technologies, computers, smart phones, the internet, mass production electric cars, airliners, drones, social media, the servers and networks that make this blog possible, and rockets that can land themselves.

      Red states have contributed meth, racism, high school dropouts, suicides, Trump, and disabled vehicles as yard decoration.

      https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/

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  11. 10:42 Nice. Do you talk to your mother like that? Gawd you are a sad loser. Probably never had a good beating to get you to thinking about manners. Just wait loser boy, you'll mouth off to the wrong guy some time and the beating will be had.

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    1. Nope, never had a good beating, been fighting my whole life, I give the beatings. Ill talk the same trash to your face while banging your wife and you will like it cuck boy. Should i paint myself orange so you can get the full experience?

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    2. And there it is. No manners and certainly not anyone the average person would want to be around. A sad pathetic insecure loser with nothing in their lives but bad thoughts and no friends.

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  12. Anyone who has seen the completely empty parking lot at the Leucadia Post Office during the nighttime or early morning hours can tell what occurred.

    You can bet Roberta did not go down her street to the stop sign and turn 90degrees to get on the 101.

    Angling across the empty post office parking lot would be a natural for anyone. No blame there.

    Using that route to blast out onto the 101 in the barely lit early morning is where the blame should lie.

    I feel for all she has had to deal with from this one bad decision. It was hers alone. Not the city. Not the driver of the truck.

    I hope she will recover fully and being young and strong, she has a good chance.

    It should obvious to all who was at fault, if there was not an election year upon us.

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  13. Sorry to go off topic of this thread, but Friday out front of of Seaside Market, I passed a t-rump tent set up on the sidewalk, how is that even allowed?, and there was Crista\, or her twin from another mother, acting out in her usual despicable partisan manner waving at and trying to engage drivers passing by.

    Surprised? Not in the slightest.

    How some can choose to continue support such a disgraceful inhabitant of the Peoples House is beyond me.

    How can anyone support this Moscow Candidate after all the too many to count examples of his lack of character is beyond me.

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    1. How can anyone support sleepy Joe Biden is beyond me, unless another Venezuela is your desire. When Trump wins there is nothing stopping you from moving to Venezuela or another Socialist country.

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    2. Let me see if you can be educated. First off, I don't listen to President Trump as his NY humor is not my cup o' tea. But the items he has accomplished is by far superior to last fool. The America hating left makes up lie after lie about the President who by the way donates his paycheck to charities, do you?
      If you believe the lies made up about him then I suggest you stop listening the sheman and cnn.
      Get your facts right and get your mind right. Mr. Trump works for "NOTHING", he takes no salary.
      What has he done to you? What has he done that is disgraceful? He takes on Russia and you refer to him as the Moscow Candidate? What is wrong with you.
      You probably liked obama, one of the worst this country has ever had, worse than carter. The same obama administration behind the Russian Hoax and gun running to Mexico. Grow up, wake up and get your mind right.
      Liberalism is a mental disorder

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    3. Trump has humor? What mind-numbing drugs are you on? The depth of your stupidity and ignorance is bottomless.

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    4. So, why don't you see binden/harris boat parades, booths set up around the city. Because even people with the liberalism disorder don't believe in the mummy with dementia or the mummy's running mate, the East Indian.
      And by the way, obama was not the first black President. Why wasn't he referred to as the first half President?
      The left can't even get that right. Now the crack pot gavin newsom is under investigation for tax evasion and fraud. Everything they do they destroy.


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    5. 6:15, the fat orange turd is losing. Make peace with that.

      We don’t need boat parades or flags because we think your cult of personality is scary and stupid. It makes us want to do the opposite—be subdued, serious, and smart as we Flush the Turd on Nov Third (copyright 2020, all rights reserved).

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    6. Yes 7:05...just like the subdued riots and killings in the leftist run cities burnt to the ground. Smart?...ya' right.
      Go ahead genius, vote for the mummy who hasn't a clue what planet he inhabits. I cannot wait for the debates.
      Then, even a brain dead liberal will notice the dementia riddled biden. This will be best.

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    7. Make peace with the loss now.

      It’ll be easier on you.

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    8. biden reminds me of the I love Lucy episode where Lucy states she has no idea where she is or who she is. She was faking, biden isn't.
      The left claims harris to be the first black vice presidential candidate. Another example how the left can't get anything right.
      Beware the left, beware the Encinitas mayor and councils office where they will re-zone anything to ruin your neighborhood with ghetto apartments.

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    9. 7:06:

      Good rule for life:

      If you're calling someone names, you've already lost the argument.

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    10. 1:31,

      Bill Cosby shamed other comedians for swearing and doing edgy material.

      He was clean as a whistle.

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  14. LOL at the lack of self awareness of the Drumpf bashing folks like their world is so much worse off because Drumpf is presudunt. What a crock. The bigger crock is that as gruff and lame Drumpf is have any of you taken a close look at the persons the Democraps are putting up to take his place and the hoaxes and lies they perpetuate daily about the orange man like it's Gospel?

    You people are hopeless and need to find how to live in the present and not blame your being a complete failure in life because muh Drumpf.

    What did you do 4 years ago and who will you blame 4 years from now?

    Complete fools are you all.

    Severe.

    Lack.

    Of.

    Self.

    Awareness.

    Pity the fools

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    1. 7:14 - you're hilarious. You're rolling out the same crap from 2016... " I do not like Trump but I hate Hillary".
      Can't you come up with something new? You are BORING!

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  15. Warning

    Coming to Encinitas Main Street.

    No amount of marxist city hall protests will stop it.

    Bank on it.

    https://twitter.com/drrollergator/status/1302741208570236935

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  16. mayor still in her bunker proclaiming the wonders of her safer, improved cycle trap erm track?

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  17. Mayor still supports overdevelopment of Encinitas. Pack em in like Pacific Beach with plenty of bars and smoke shops, invite the homeless- we need to smell more like Santa Cruz, and supports unsafe roads with bikes getting maimed on PCH throughout town. Vote this proven failed Mayor and her flunkies out.

    I am voting out all incumbent losers. Blakespear and clan and Trump. They all make terrible decisions and suck.

    Yup thats right - Blakespear sucks just as much as Trump. Failed leadership.

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    1. Could you explain "failed leadership" concerning President Trump? Come on, name some, heck name one. The guy is one it. Works all the time, takes no pay check. Any you, genius. Do you work for free or even have a job.

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  18. Can someone share this with the hysterical screaming karens over there at EV

    Coming to street near yo
    Over this fake science garbage lol

    https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1302932100639789056

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    1. 8:50 - you are repeatedly using "Karen's" to describe people advocating masks, acknowledging covid-19 deaths, etc.
      You clearly do not know what a "Karen" is.
      You're stupid - i get it - but at least make an effort to appear like a normal closed minded troll.
      Thank you.

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    2. Absolutely 10:09


      I prefer treating people like people.

      Not destructive or lethal germ vessels with the potential to kill me on contact.

      There is statistical data driven proof that both masks and lockdowns are the worst mistake in the history of policy mistakes (other than stupid/unnecessary wars course).

      You would think karens or bobs like you would understand but you're too busy reading far left wing blogs like NYT, LAT and the Washington compost.

      Go ahead and keep karening bob and be sure when you are driving your car the mask in on and the windows are up because life is fearful. Very, very fearful.

      Good day KAREN ~!

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    3. 11:30 Your ignorance and stupidity are mind boggling. You are the dregs of the gene pool.

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  19. To the people still fear mongering about Corona...were you born a simpering bitch, or did that happen over time?

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    1. Dead Americans:

      Revolutionary War: 25,000
      WWI: 117,000
      War of 1812: 15,000
      Korean War: 36,000
      Vietnam: 58,000
      Sept 11: 3000
      War in Iraq: 4500
      Afghanistan: 2200

      TRUMP VIRUS: 190,000 dead Americans and counting.

      You can't hide from the failure.

      Flush the Turd November Third.

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    2. Yes genius, blame President Trump. Don't blame the communist chinese.

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    3. The virus is global. Our response is the problem.

      Every other developed nation with adult leadership handled it just fine and their schools and businesses are open.

      Your fat orange turd fucked it up and killed Herman Cain, his own brother, and 190K other Americans.

      China didn’t cause our response to be the worst in the developed world.

      That’s why it’s the Trump Virus.

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    4. Yes genius. President Trump made the virus, spread the virus and killed all those people...right? And next when flu season is upon us it will be President Trumps fault thousands die from the flu. The riots, car accidents, black on black crime, you name it...the President did it.
      Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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  20. To the mayor-in-hiding and her mini me council: how much do you estimate taxpayers will be on the hook for this and other cyclist lawsuits threatened?

    Will our finances still be in "fine shape" by the time you come out from under the covers and survey the damage?

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    1. I'm no fan of the leftists running encinitas but if you can't ride a bicycle in a straight line then...should you be riding a bicycle? I "hate" everything about the America hating leftist and lies of man made global warming, the ozone and low income housing being forced on the California populations.
      But I must admit, we have nice streets in Encinitas compared to the City of San Diego.
      Black asphalt matters.

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  21. 7:00am- You sound like the dumbest person in Encinitas.

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    1. 6:26 You're projecting your dumbness. 7:00 is exactly right.

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  22. To the mayor-in-hiding and her mini me council: how much do you estimate taxpayers will be on the hook for this and other cyclist lawsuits threatened?

    Will our finances still be in "fine shape" by the time you come out from under the covers and survey the damage?

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  23. kranz performance at tonight's council is gagworthy. he suddenly woke from his stupor of 8 years and remembered he has to try TO get reelected.

    note to tony: TOO LATE.

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  24. Plaintiff's remarks : "AIIIIIEIIIIIIIIIIII - *SPLAT*

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  25. I avoid the section entirely. Pretty easy to do.

    Cycling is pretty easy, and it's done more safely if you don't ride with try hards, stubborn MAMIL cyclists, and choose the safer routes.

    The normalization of bad driving is never going to be addressed appropriately in my lifetime, so the answer is take up mountain biking instead.

    Good luck to all the cyclists on the 101.

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