Hinze has certainly perfected the "I'm sitting on a stick but refuse to react" stoic look that somehow conveys at the same time extreme boredom. She must've been studying Blakespear videos. Although in comparison tonight Blakespear seems giddy as one might who hit the bottle hard in preparation for another (ugh) meeting where the (ugh) public might dare voice opinions.
WHOOPS on Lynde's part, she asked for a discussion on the bluffs and beach preservation. Got the chilly, zombie-like delivery Blakespear's known for: "we'll discuss that in future" from Blakespear and will be taken to the woodshed in private.
The bike lane does not disappear in the ultimate streetscape. Staff is saying they do not want to build the ultimate Streetscape. Deaths will continue. Build the entire streetscape!
Jill misspoke review the streetscape plan. Remove some parking and put in a bike lane as shown on the streetscape plan.
build it or pay a few more $11 million dollar settlements and get ready to tell the parents of those slaughtered that you chose to purposely not build the needed bikelanes and the rest of the streetscape. $22 million to save all the potential blood would go a long way in building the rest of the streetscape.
Thanks for the future deaths of our citizens. I bet Roberta doesn't ride in the sharrow lanes any more.
And the business section on El Camino Real continues to be one of the worse streets in Encinitas. Someone/s have degrees in lameness. FIX THE DAMN THE DAMN STREET !!!!
To PROVE the insanity, and this comes right off of her campaign page...that she will work tirelessly to "stabilize the climate". HUH???? The whacked out leftists think they can change the climate???? Hell, they can't even fix the streets... These people are nuts.
Well I'm do not consider all the people in Leucadia that support addressing that dangerous fast highway nut cases. I consider them smart and logical. That current death trap is designed at 65mph freeway speeds and is sending I5 commuters at freeway speeds ripping right down our mainstreet running bikes, pedestrians, and families down that are trying to support our local businesses and make it to the beach without having to drive a car. I would call them logical caring citizens, but I guess you call them nutcases.
Anyhow, Encinitas had their streetscape completed over 30 years now and its much better than it was for pedestrian and hence paid for itself many times over since inception.
Leucadia 101 has been working on their streetscape since early 2000s and the City agreed to focus on completing the Leucadia streetscape which we knew would be costly but very beneficial project for the quality of life for all Encinitians and visitors alike. Like the downtown streetscape, the return on investment of the Leucadia 101 streetscape is huge and it would pay for itself in less than 10 years and that is without including the opportunity costs from saving the forthcoming law suites and payouts from future travesties like Roberta Walker and Stephanie Berger-McKenna.
and all that without even touching on the environmental improvements tied to completing the streetscape including addressing all the excess noise pollution, air pollution, waste pollution and blight causing impacts of that existing shitty road.
Thanks for asking that good question and have a good day!
You do realize that the current Streetscape bears virtually zero resemblance to the original design you've "been working on since early 2000s and that cycling groups are aghast at the danger in the current plan.
7:45 You're one of the nutcases. A St. to Swami's has two traffic lanes and sharrows in each direction for nearly its whole length. It also has two stop signs, five traffic signals and several crosswalks. It has no roundabouts. It has retail businesses on both sides of the street. It has parking on 101, in adjacent lots and on parallel and perpendicular streets.
Leucadia 101 is not and has never been a 65 mph road. It has about 20 T intersections, one + intersection, one very long traffic signal and no N-S stop signs. The retail businesses are on one side, and there's nowhere near enough parking. Streetscape will make Leucadia 101 a traffic nightmare. It won't pay for itself because there aren't enough retail businesses, there isn't and won't be enough parking, and the traffic jams will keep people away. Walkers and bicyclists aren't enough to support the businesses.
Nobody is getting mowed down. Do you actually live around here? You don't know what you're talking about, so it wouldn't seem you do.
Walker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
“Ms. Walker suffered catastrophic injuries…,” Susolik said. “Tragically, she will be suffering from the impact of those injuries for the rest of her life. The settlement will allow Ms. Walker to obtain the long-term care she will require to live comfortably with the care she needs.”
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
I don't know about you but I called that kind of slaughter being mowed down.
The first one cost the City $11 million. The seconded will likely cost between $5-$15 million. The future ones to come will cost the City millions considering the City has chosen NOT to address the problem.
Call it mowed down, slaughtered, sacrificed, smeared, pavement spread, splat, hit from behind it really doesn't matter. The fact is that road is a known death trap and people will continue to get mowed down and the City will continue to pay millions until its fixed.
God be with all the victims during your life of pain if you make it. We deserve better leaders.
6:50 It was an accident, you idiot! And she contributed to it. She wasn't "mowed down" and neither was anybody else. "Mowed down" connotes intent. An accident is not intentional. You are barely literate. The quality of your thinking is very low.
Thank god for Streetscape! Those 6x6 treated timbers, cobbled together, along with the mulch and 4x4 posts is awesome! The painted-on-dirt black parking stipe is classy! Wow - I am left slack-jawed by this spend. Thank you City of Encinitas! Oh - and for the "mowed down" drizzly-shit guy - please take notes on how many bicylists get "mowed down" by drunks pulling out of the awesome railside parking lots. Streetscape - wow.. I guess that to a city that gives $11 MUSD to a careless bicyle rider, that $40 MUSD for timbers, mulch, and a painted parking stipe gravel crap-sack dirt strip is good value.
The Sheriff's Department refused to release the Walker accident report - why? Isn't that supposed to be an impartial analysis of the events that culminated in the accident? After $11 million is shelled out of the publi9c coffer, the public has an inherent right to know the circumstances. Where is Blakespear on this - MIA!
Your thinking is illogical. Here is something for you to think about. If the City was not liable, why would they agree to pay $11 million?
STFU loser 8:27. You brain does not work just like Lwords. You are both are brain dead. Were you mowed over at some point? that might explain it. You may be entitled to millions.
The bottom line is we all know the street is a death trap and until its fixed more people will be mowed down and the City will lose millions. Care to go another round?
9:01 - you should crawl on all fours, you soiled baby. Enough with your histerical ranks. "mowed down"? - ha - drive into a highway without looking at you're own risk. Death-trap! that is hilarious... suckitTard
10:06 - WTF? what's with the relentless "mowed down"? Are you a greenskeeper or something? I was one of the first people at the scene when James Swarzman was run over by a guy leaving a local bar in 2011. He was northbound on the 101 at W Jason. He was truly mowed down by a drunk driver. There were bike bits all over. James lay dying and his two riding companion were in shock - standing around, checking for a pulse, as all were waiting in darkness for care. A Sheriff's car arrived after 20 minutes. An ambulance 3o minutes later. Flight for life landed at ~60 minutes and departed at ~75 minutes. James was declared dead hours later in La Jolla. The city did not pay this fellow's family a penny. The 101 was exponentially more dangerous then and the response from the city was sub-standard. Yet - no pay-out. This Walker pay-out is a shifty, give-away from city insiders to a city "friend".
It sounds to me like Mr. James Swarzman should have called an attorney. There are so many more stories of bicycles that have been mowed down on that stretch. It will continue until its fixed.
I know the recent ones have suits in the works. $11 million is just the first in a long list. We better sell PV to help pay for all the mishaps for delaying fixing these hazards.
Dark days ahead. Ask Roberta's, Stephanie's, or Dr. Jennings Worley's families.
9:40 - Hey tard. Roberta was hit from behind just like Stephanie.
Walker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
“Ms. Walker suffered catastrophic injuries…,” Susolik said. “Tragically, she will be suffering from the impact of those injuries for the rest of her life. The settlement will allow Ms. Walker to obtain the long-term care she will require to live comfortably with the care she needs.”
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
Why would our Mayor back down from her earlier commitment?
I guess she could care less about the future people and kids getting smeared on this unsafe road?
WTF?
and do not even get me started on that jackass newbee - https://www.sbsun.com/2009/04/30/after-a-dust-up-over-development-mosca-skipped-over-for-sierra-madre-mayor-seat/
Encinitas leaders push for changes to Coast Highway after bike safety advocate suffers serious injuries Posted: December 11, 2018
Wow that was three years ago. Some fast track. We have been luck no one else has died in those 3 years. I fear this year will claim another life for the death trap remains intact.
thanks for no action City Council. I'm sure Roberta and Stephanie are stoked as they choke down their pain meds.
10:26 - and why is their med schedule your business, you fucknut? Ride your bike into a highway without looking at you're own peril - dum-dum. This is not the City's responsibilty. The city should not be liable for stupid.
10:26 etc: You are stupid enough to be Trump supporters. The two accidents happened in the sharrow lane. There are sharrow lanes from La Costa Ave south to Solana Beach. Walker got a big settlement because she's Blakespear's friend.
10:48pm - Trump supporter. Ha. Again showing your stupidity. Walker received a big settlement because:
Walker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
“Ms. Walker suffered catastrophic injuries…,” Susolik said. “Tragically, she will be suffering from the impact of those injuries for the rest of her life. The settlement will allow Ms. Walker to obtain the long-term care she will require to live comfortably with the care she needs.”
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
Stephanie will get a big settlement because:
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
More will receive huge pain and suffering payments do the conditions explained here:
11:27 You've repeatedly failed the logic and reality tests. All you can do is copy and paste long news stories. There are sharrows in cities all over the place. Why are you picking on Leucadia 101? How dumb and reckless does anybody have to be to ride a bike in traffic in the dark?
You see sharrows around on residential road with design speeds under 35 miles per hour. Hwy 101 was designed as a highway with a design speed of 65 miles per hour. That is why so many of us feel comfortable going 60+ on Hwy 101.
If you want people to drive slower and lower the fatality rate on the road redesign the road with a design speed lower than 40 mph. Its that simple.
Until then, people will continue to be mowed down and the tax payers will continue to pay out millions of their hard earned tax dollars, because sharrows on a road with a design speed of 60 mph + is not smart or per code.
The families suffer pain and suffering (ask Roberta).
That is why it's called Hwy 101. HIHGWAY !!!!!! GET IT? Stupid people ride a bike in the dark then they wonder what happened...Why oh' why do stupid people keep breeding? Like stupid people sitting on the beach at the base of a cliff thinking nothing can happen. F'ing people never seem to wise up.
Why would you say stupid people ride in the dark? Why wouldn't they? Do people drive cars in the dark? Bikes have lights and reflectors now genius. Its no different. Is it OK to walk at night or should everyone have to drive a car everywhere?
You bring up a good point in that the road name should be changed to reflect the change in the road after I5 was built in the 1950s and the state give the roadway to the City to serve as a local mainstreet. Most other Cities chose not to call their segment of the old PCH alignment a "Highway". Encinitas just chose their name poorly.
Hence the old PCH alignment is called in La Jolla- La Jolla Blvd. and Torrey Pines Road,
Del Mar named theirs Camino Del Mar
and Carlsbad - Carlsbad Blvd.
I submit to the City Council and Citizens of Encinitas that the Encinitas City Council put out a survey to change the name of the old Hwy 101 alignment to reflect its current needed use for our community. My suggestions are:
For the three different coastal areas:
Cardiff Mainstreet 101, Encinitas Mainstreet 101 and Leucadia Mainstreet 101, or just simply;
Cardiff 101, Encinitas 101 and Leucadia 101, or;
Camino Del Funky for Leucadia, Camino Del Surfy for Encinitas, and Camino Del Beachy for Cardiff?
What do you propose we call the local main streets?
Hwy 101 was not designed for 60 or 65 MPH through Leucadia, Old Encinitas and Cardiff. There are far too many T intersections, + intersections, stops, lights and roadside businesses for that to be true. And nobody was mowed down. Stop the bullshit, you moron.
I'm not 8:02 but anyone that believes in man made gullible warming is delusional. The lies from goofy eyed clowns have been going on for over 25 years. Lie after lie. So genius, tell all of us about raising seas, acid rain, the ozone getting larger, dying polar bears etc. Come on, give it your best shot.
I do not need to confirm anything. The City signed the settlement agreement and paid $11 million dollars for what they believe is their fair share of liability tied to that accident. I would like to see the police report. Any idea how they can bury that piece of public document for so long?
OK, 3:57, you can't confirm that Walker had lights and reflectors on her bike when she was hit from behind in the pre-dawn darkness on Leucadia 101 on 12/8/18.
Onsite witnesses gave statements to the sheriff: no lights, dark clothing, pitch black out. $11M is no fair share, it's a friend's payoff.
In addition to the mayor's hysterical kneejerk restriping she made sure to take care of her pal come payday. Will she treat the guy killed by her wacko bollarding on Leucadia Blvd. as well?
Surely removing the bollards at the site of his death is as huge an admission of guilt as anything the mayor blabbed about after Walker's accident. The Leucadia Blvd. man deserves whatever he can get from us, I would not blame his family a bit.
There's no spinning what is so obviously the Walker case.
How can you say that 1:21? I think you better go look at the old state hwy 101 studies and plans that were completed back in the 1920s and 1930. Indeed that highway that connected LA to TJ previous to I5 was in fact designed for freeway speeds. The Highway design speed is 65 mph.
Highway 101 through San Diego County was originally aligned in 1926. Some parts were realigned in 1933. For example, the 1926 alignment was what is now the narrow, very steep, winding road from the Torrey Pines State Beach parking lot up through the bluff to the mesa above. I doubt any car could take that hill up or down at 65 mph today, let alone in the '20s or early '30s.
Top speed for Model T Fords produced from 1908 through 1927 was 35 mph. For Model A Fords made from 1927 through 1931, top speed was 65 mph.
I seriously doubt any driver was whizzing past Noah's Ark, the Log Cabins Motel, the Shamrock Cafe and the La Paloma Theater pedal to the metal at 65 mph any time in 1927 or the 1930s.
Well they sure were going over 60 mph in the 40s through 2020 and continues into 2021. Its the same straight fast roadway designed for 65 mph speeds. It needs to change to slow the speeds.
It was not designed for 65 mph when cars' top speed was 35 mph! How many speed tables are there now between La Costa Avenue and Encinitas Boulevard? Are you saying drivers are zooming to 65 mph between the 30 mph speed tables? Do you actually live around here?
OOO those speed tables really do something. Not. The fricken pot holes from the City not maintaining the streets have a greater impact than those micro bumps.
The pocket rockets love them at about 70 mph. It help them pull the front wheel up.
4:51 - Your writing is backwards like your thinking. I do not need to show you the proof, the lawyers did that and will continue to do that in the next suit. If you want to know the facts look them up yourself.
Stephanie's suit will settle in the millions and the poor dead Phd will settle somewhere between $10 to $50 million.
These leaders lack of addressing known hazards are costing us tax payers big time, not to mention all the pain and suffering to the victims.
Joe Mosca you are a fricken idiot. No one in Encinitas wants to or likes to riding buses. They do it because they are poor. You Idiot. Adding a bench or a crappy bus shelter will do nothing to ridership.
Agreed. But don't worry about these fudge packers, watch out for the real racists out there: https://www.takimag.com/article/saying-no-to-black-people/print
Joe Mosca you are a fricken idiot. No one in Encinitas wants to or likes riding buses. They do it because they can not afford to drive. Adding a bench or a crappy bus shelter will do nothing for ridership.
WTF -- The City Council just explained that the alternatives that were presented did not achieve the top priority goal to establish a continuous class II bike lane. They all agreed that a continuous class II bicycle lane in the southbound direction is highest priority yet they just approved a motion for alternative two that does not accomplish that key objective.
Could we have a more fricken dysfunctional City Council?
No wonder people are getting mowed down on our streets.
I say recall Mosca. He started all this BS about revamping the streetscape and now is a complete shit show, and of course BIA gobbled it up because she has never seen a train-wreck she did not want to join.
If you do not know what I'm taking about watch this full on Shit Show starting at minute 47 min. in the presentation here - https://encinitas.granicus.com/player/clip/2418?view_id=7&redirect=true
You are so stupid 10:57. Stay off the road. Per law, Sharrows are for streets with average speeds of less than 35mph.
City's lose law suits when the sharrows are on road designed as a highway with highway speeds well above 35 mph.
Its a liability to the tune of $11 million dollars per accident and there will be more.
This is what the results are from 2018
According to court documents and reports from close friends, Walker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
Prior to the accident, Walker, previously a policy advisor to former County Supervisor Dave Roberts, had been an outspoken supporter of the city’s proposed Leucadia Streetscape project, citing much-needed improvements for cyclists and pedestrians along a stretch of Coast Highway 101.
Just days after the accident, bicycle-safety advocates and friends of Walker attended an Encinitas City Council meeting, urging city officials to take immediate action and to expedite the Streetscape project and roadway upgrades.
“One profound irony of this accident is that Ms. Walker herself had advocated for a dedicated bike lane in multiple City Council meetings,” Susolik said.
Hundreds of cyclists, residents and local leaders attended a “Ride for Roberta” event hosted by Councilwoman Kellie Shay Hinze, then-executive director of Leucadia 101 Main Street, a sister organization of Cardiff 101.
“Ms. Walker hopes that this settlement will send a message to all cities and counties in California to maintain their bike lanes with the utmost regard for the safety of bicyclists so that this type of accident resulting from dangerous roadways never happens again.”
NCINITAS — San Diego County Sheriff’s investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating the driver of a Mercedes Benz, who struck a bicyclist on Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia on Aug. 11 but did not stop.
Meanwhile, friends and family are pouring out support for the woman struck by the car, who suffered a severe brain injury during the incident.
Deputies responded shortly after 10 p.m. to the intersection of North Coast Highway 101 and Basil Street, where a 30-year-old woman on a bike in the southbound designated bicycle “sharrow” lane was hit by a car, according to sheriff’s Cpl. Brenda Sipley. The driver did not stop at the scene and fled southbound.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
What's the point of repeating the injury reports? Nobody is saying they weren't injured. They were both riding in the dark. Did they have lights and reflectors and reflective clothing? The speed limit now is 30. Then it was probably still 35. If sharrows made cities liable, no city would have them!
I guarantee you that someone will be run down on s. hwy 101 in cardiff as well and the City will be lose millions. The Ciy actually removed a perfectly good class II bicycle lane snd pushed the bicyclists out into a vehicle travel lane.
Completely retarded and that is why all the real bicyclists know BIA is bad for bikes.
Fund the entire streetscape and quit fucking around. This is urgent and you wasted three years since the last slaughter.
the future payments for not addressing the hazard are much greater than the cost of the entire streetscape. I think Joe Mosca should ask Roberta and Stephanie what they think. Don't you?
Not one of these clowns has ANY experience in road and safety design. Hell, a laborer putting out traffic signs has more knowledge than the city council buffoons. On another topic, I saw the latest idea from the "buffoon group" on table scrap containers. Myyyy Gawd...what nut case came up with this idea? It's the size of exterior private mailbox. If you are the one that came up with this then you, are indeed retarded.
Oh no no, 8:29. Your comments have Hinze backward. She continues to mimic the mayor and will never break from the herd. She is constitutionally incapable of leadership. She's been on the council how many years now and still can't act alone.
She had described the $30 million dollar I-Bank loan as "flexible to use for other projects" so worse than no leadership capabilities, she can't even think. What was it she said about the 3rd-party housing financing scheme? "It seems too good to be true" and "It makes my head hurt." You're going to need to wait till hell freezes over for anything that even resembles leadership from that one.
Look elsewhere on the council for help, but to whom???
Among other wonders, the council just discovered the Streetscape plan that's been in place since Jan 13, 2010 does not have a continuous bike lane through the whole corridor.
The plan won't eliminate car vs. bike accidents. It's more likely to increase them because bicyclists will have to ride in the stupid, too-small roundabouts with the cars and trucks.
Where they can ride on the sidewalk and crosswalks with pedestrians, they can collide with walkers instead of cars and trucks. Those injuries will be less severe. Really smart, eh?
Well ya know 2:27 as long as most voters are asleep at the wheel the mayor plans to virtue signal her "improvement" all the way to the senate. She'll then do the same here as she did with her Cardiff cycle track when the bodies started piling up: blame the victims. Soulless piece of work, that one.
2:27 pm - No you have it wrong. The City Council just can not read plans and has no clue what's its doing so you know they will just completely F it up and make it even more unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. Switching back and forth between sharrows is making it worse not better. Geeze, just complete the road diet and take some needed parking where you need to keep it four lanes near Leucadia Blvd. Is it that hard to read plans and figure out how to stripe a 7 foot wide bikelane?
Whats with those ridiculous poorly designed "parking pod"? Could they be any less efficient?
Lets take 300 feet by 30 feet and parallel park 8 cars. What fricken retarts. Most people were parking reverse angle parking which is much more efficient.
Lastly, Who T F approved paving over paradise on the east side of Vulcan Avenue and gifting all that public land to serve as parking for the high density apartment owners on the east side of Vulcan Avenue? I would like to know a name to give all that recognition for wasting millions of dollars worth of public space.
Why pave over paradise and give away public land, when the eastern side of Vulcan Ave could be a nice Class I bike and pedestrian path like SANDAG built in Cardiff? Implementing free public public parking is subsidizing those property owners and wasting all that valuable public land that should be used for pedestrian and bicyclists amenities. Not to mention its ugly as sin and promotes bad public behavior need the RR tracks. Do we have anyone at City Hall with a lick of common sense?
Why own a large property in the middle of downtown Encinitas worth millions and have "finger painting classes". If these people in office had a business, they'd be out of business in a short time. Sell that property and stop being fools for finger painting.
1. The people who live on Vulcan have no where else to park but in the RR ROW. 2. The CRT will go between the tracks and 101. That's already in the plan. 3. You're not recognizing the basic problem: There's not enough room between the west side of Vulcan and the west side of the commercial zone on 101 for all the stuff the various interests want to put there. If the situation had been addressed from the start with that in mind, we'd come closer to a solution. 4. It'll get a lot worse when the tracks are doubled.
IN answer to 6:00's question of who gave away east Vulcan to developers. It was voted on by a city council when Gus Vina was City Manager. Obviously Kranz voted for it, but I recall two citizens jumping up and objecting to this idea. These citizens were Ginger Perkins and Donna Westbook, who argued that the City should NEVER give away land to developers and that it could be used for a bike lane instead of 101. A bike lane on Vulcan could have made more sense for Encinitas residents to bike to the train station and for bikers who work at city's largest employer--the City of Encinitas. Vina loved to give away city property to developers or take away private property and give it to developers so that they could justify more houses in projects than they were entitled to. For details, ask Marco.
East of Vulcan is private property, most of which became apartment houses before the city incorporated in '86. West of Vulcan is the railroad right-of-way over to the edge of the 101 pavement. The ROW is 100 feet for almost its whole length from La C Ave to Enc Blvd.
The CRT will go west of the tracks. The second set of tracks will go east of the current tracks and displace the parking that's recently been put there.
There's not enough room west of the tracks for the parking pods and the CRT, which gets us back to the basic point: There's not enough room in the Leuc 101 corridor for all the stuff various interests want to put there.
The only thing that comes close to solving the problems is to trench the tracks as Solana Beach did. No local, county, state or fed politician had or has the cajones to pursue that solution.
They gave away the easement--which is a right that belonged to the City. Just ask a few property owners in this town what happens to THEIR property when a developer wants to take it over.
10:24- The people who live on Vulcan have no where else to park but in the RR ROW.
Reply: Hey 10:24, heres a concept they can park on their property, or pay for parking but the public should not be substidizing parking.
It bad for the earth. Free subsidized Parking increases run off, promotes driving vehicles, lowers demand for NCTD and other transit services and lowers demand for active transportation like bicycle riding and walking.
Who the fuck would support such a thing? They must hate public transit, bicycling and walking, right?
The City needs to block off the parking and convert that space to a bike and pedestrian trail! Do it now.
When do we put on trial the clowns that filled the skate parks with sand a year ago?
Also I recall a fake scientist from scripps in san diego calling for the same nimrods to close the beaches due to covid spreading from the ocean spray?
I volunteer to do my civic duty and be on the jury and vote for the death penalty.
5:53 It's truly astonishing that in an age that anybody with a computer and web access, you can look up and find accurate information about virtually everything.
Yet there are some people who must be so deeply stupid that they ignore the facts that are so easy to find.
Read this and scores of other evidence that says the same thing. Cure your stunning ignorance:
11:40...are trying to convince people that "the warmers" haven't been saying the east and west coasts would be underwater for the last 30 years????? Then genius, you must have been asleep in a coffin. That is "exactly" what the liars have been saying for 30 years. And I'm ignorant????????? How do you feed yourself? A straw, by the hand of others? You probably don't think biden has Alzheimer's either. You FOOL...
11:32 You are a fucking idiot. The evidence of global warming, climate change and sea level rise is everywhere and overwhelming. Only pea brains like you deny it.
2:02 Prove the sea levels are raising. I'll wait while you try. Man made global warming is a lie and has been for decades. While stupid people will fall for anything, this is a perfect something for them to believe in. Oh' wait...that would be you.
You should be ashamed to be such a moron. You are willfully ignorant. The evidence is everywhere and overwhelming. You don't have the brains to read it.
O.K genius 12:47, for thirty years the lie of raising seas has been screamed from the leftist whacko roof tops. And what a big surprise...NO RASING SEAS. It was a lie thirty years ago and is a lie today. It's whackos like you that will believe in anything. Wake upppppp....no raising seas...it's a lie. Just like all the other lies the frauds tell everyone Take away their grant money and you won't hear anything. Man made global warming...the man made LIE
That fake scientist from scripps should be held liable for all the damage done. Outside separated at the beach was as safe as you could get. It shows the level of idiots leading this shit show.
Julie Thunder just published an OpEd documentiong the significant increase of crime in Encinitas. There must be something to it since Blakespear dragged out the sheriff at the meeting last night to testify what a safe community we live in. The mayor's image control campaign must be active 24/7.
Hinze has certainly perfected the "I'm sitting on a stick but refuse to react" stoic look that somehow conveys at the same time extreme boredom. She must've been studying Blakespear videos. Although in comparison tonight Blakespear seems giddy as one might who hit the bottle hard in preparation for another (ugh) meeting where the (ugh) public might dare voice opinions.
ReplyDeleteAnnika Walden in favor of streetscape failed to identify herself as "executive director" of the L101, which takes its marching orders from the city.
ReplyDeleteMarcheta to Basil: $9 million!
ReplyDeleteThe stupidity continues with staff suggestions for the north end.
Gridlock to come.
You mean "professional staff," 7:06. Don't you feel better now? ;)
DeleteWHOOPS on Lynde's part, she asked for a discussion on the bluffs and beach preservation. Got the chilly, zombie-like delivery Blakespear's known for: "we'll discuss that in future" from Blakespear and will be taken to the woodshed in private.
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight. Some areas will be safe with Class II, but some area will stay a death trap area with Sharrows with the high speed areas.
ReplyDeleteI do not thing Roberta and others would agree. Do you?
So the deaths will still remain from Jupiter to Leucadia Blvd in the south bound. Thats great. How much will another $11 million in blood money build?
ReplyDeleteWell the bike lane has gone missing and the Mayor needs answers!
ReplyDeleteThe bike lane does not disappear in the ultimate streetscape. Staff is saying they do not want to build the ultimate Streetscape. Deaths will continue. Build the entire streetscape!
ReplyDeleteJill misspoke review the streetscape plan. Remove some parking and put in a bike lane as shown on the streetscape plan.
Hey BIA- Whats the plan going forward?
ReplyDeleteWho knows?
Oh I know, build the streetscape that was approved last year!
build it or pay a few more $11 million dollar settlements and get ready to tell the parents of those slaughtered that you chose to purposely not build the needed bikelanes and the rest of the streetscape. $22 million to save all the potential blood would go a long way in building the rest of the streetscape.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the future deaths of our citizens. I bet Roberta doesn't ride in the sharrow lanes any more.
Wow. Exciting BIA, more deaths to follow.
Cherlie died but the streetscape is not done and more people will continue to die!!
ReplyDeleteNot good! More blood to spill and pain to be felt by crying parents.
Charlie died?? You mean Marvy Charles?
Delete8:59- No I mean Charles Marvin. Someone who supported bettering the quality of life for Leucadians.
DeleteThe only one ranting Marvy is that twisted Lword, RIP.
But Lword's brain has been dead for years. So would you even consider her living?
Enjoy your time here. It's shorter than you know.
-Peace
Sorry to burst your bubble, but "Marvy Charles" came from an old EG. Many of us referred to him that way.
DeleteRIP, indeed.
*Charlie
ReplyDeleteRIP Charlie.
And the business section on El Camino Real continues to be one of the worse streets in Encinitas. Someone/s have degrees in lameness. FIX THE DAMN THE DAMN STREET !!!!
ReplyDeleteFix the damn streets is right. The streets in Encinitas when from really nice to total crap under the lack of leadership of BIAspear.
ReplyDeleteWhy did she sacrifice our roads for her homeless building, PV, and stack and pack campaign?
BIA is bad!!!
NOOPO!!!
To PROVE the insanity, and this comes right off of her campaign page...that she will work tirelessly to "stabilize the climate". HUH????
ReplyDeleteThe whacked out leftists think they can change the climate????
Hell, they can't even fix the streets...
These people are nuts.
10:35, I didn't believe you so I went to her website. Sure enough, she thinks she can "stabilize the climate".
ReplyDelete"stabilize the climate"...ya' sure. While she is at it, maybe she can stop volcanos from erupting and stupid people from breeding.
DeleteWhy do so many nutcases obsess over Leucadia 101? What about A St to Swami's? No danger there?
ReplyDeleteWell I'm do not consider all the people in Leucadia that support addressing that dangerous fast highway nut cases. I consider them smart and logical. That current death trap is designed at 65mph freeway speeds and is sending I5 commuters at freeway speeds ripping right down our mainstreet running bikes, pedestrians, and families down that are trying to support our local businesses and make it to the beach without having to drive a car. I would call them logical caring citizens, but I guess you call them nutcases.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, Encinitas had their streetscape completed over 30 years now and its much better than it was for pedestrian and hence paid for itself many times over since inception.
Leucadia 101 has been working on their streetscape since early 2000s and the City agreed to focus on completing the Leucadia streetscape which we knew would be costly but very beneficial project for the quality of life for all Encinitians and visitors alike. Like the downtown streetscape, the return on investment of the Leucadia 101 streetscape is huge and it would pay for itself in less than 10 years and that is without including the opportunity costs from saving the forthcoming law suites and payouts from future travesties like Roberta Walker and Stephanie Berger-McKenna.
https://thecoastnews.com/city-of-encinitas-agrees-to-11-million-settlement-in-walker-lawsuit/
https://thecoastnews.com/deputies-investigate-hit-and-run-that-left-woman-fighting-for-her-life/
and all that without even touching on the environmental improvements tied to completing the streetscape including addressing all the excess noise pollution, air pollution, waste pollution and blight causing impacts of that existing shitty road.
Thanks for asking that good question and have a good day!
You do realize that the current Streetscape bears virtually zero resemblance to the original design you've "been working on since early 2000s and that cycling groups are aghast at the danger in the current plan.
Delete7:45 You're one of the nutcases. A St. to Swami's has two traffic lanes and sharrows in each direction for nearly its whole length. It also has two stop signs, five traffic signals and several crosswalks. It has no roundabouts. It has retail businesses on both sides of the street. It has parking on 101, in adjacent lots and on parallel and perpendicular streets.
DeleteLeucadia 101 is not and has never been a 65 mph road. It has about 20 T intersections, one + intersection, one very long traffic signal and no N-S stop signs. The retail businesses are on one side, and there's nowhere near enough parking. Streetscape will make Leucadia 101 a traffic nightmare. It won't pay for itself because there aren't enough retail businesses, there isn't and won't be enough parking, and the traffic jams will keep people away. Walkers and bicyclists aren't enough to support the businesses.
Nobody is getting mowed down. Do you actually live around here? You don't know what you're talking about, so it wouldn't seem you do.
*I and lawsuits
ReplyDelete12:54- Really?
ReplyDeleteWalker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
“Ms. Walker suffered catastrophic injuries…,” Susolik said. “Tragically, she will be suffering from the impact of those injuries for the rest of her life. The settlement will allow Ms. Walker to obtain the long-term care she will require to live comfortably with the care she needs.”
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
I don't know about you but I called that kind of slaughter being mowed down.
The first one cost the City $11 million. The seconded will likely cost between $5-$15 million. The future ones to come will cost the City millions considering the City has chosen NOT to address the problem.
Call it mowed down, slaughtered, sacrificed, smeared, pavement spread, splat, hit from behind it really doesn't matter. The fact is that road is a known death trap and people will continue to get mowed down and the City will continue to pay millions until its fixed.
God be with all the victims during your life of pain if you make it. We deserve better leaders.
6:50 It was an accident, you idiot! And she contributed to it. She wasn't "mowed down" and neither was anybody else. "Mowed down" connotes intent. An accident is not intentional. You are barely literate. The quality of your thinking is very low.
DeleteThank god for Streetscape! Those 6x6 treated timbers, cobbled together, along with the mulch and 4x4 posts is awesome! The painted-on-dirt black parking stipe is classy!
DeleteWow - I am left slack-jawed by this spend. Thank you City of Encinitas!
Oh - and for the "mowed down" drizzly-shit guy - please take notes on how many bicylists get "mowed down" by drunks pulling out of the awesome railside parking lots.
Streetscape - wow.. I guess that to a city that gives $11 MUSD to a careless bicyle rider, that $40 MUSD for timbers, mulch, and a painted parking stipe gravel crap-sack dirt strip is good value.
The Sheriff's Department refused to release the Walker accident report - why? Isn't that supposed to be an impartial analysis of the events that culminated in the accident? After $11 million is shelled out of the publi9c coffer, the public has an inherent right to know the circumstances. Where is Blakespear on this - MIA!
Delete8:27- You are a fricken retard or the truck driver's attorney that mowed over Roberta.
ReplyDeleteIt was an accident if you were the truck driver that mowed over the bike.
It was a devastating incident for the bike being mowed over (Roberta and Stephanie).
Also there have been plenty of others run down and the victims of that high speed highway. Most do not have articles written about them.
https://patch.com/california/encinitas/man-convicted-in-deadly-leucadia-hit-run-bicycle-case
Your thinking is illogical. Here is something for you to think about. If the City was not liable, why would they agree to pay $11 million?
STFU loser 8:27. You brain does not work just like Lwords. You are both are brain dead. Were you mowed over at some point? that might explain it. You may be entitled to millions.
The bottom line is we all know the street is a death trap and until its fixed more people will be mowed down and the City will lose millions. Care to go another round?
9:01 - you should crawl on all fours, you soiled baby. Enough with your histerical ranks. "mowed down"? - ha - drive into a highway without looking at you're own risk. Death-trap! that is hilarious... suckitTard
Delete10:06 - WTF? what's with the relentless "mowed down"? Are you a greenskeeper or something? I was one of the first people at the scene when James Swarzman was run over by a guy leaving a local bar in 2011. He was northbound on the 101 at W Jason. He was truly mowed down by a drunk driver. There were bike bits all over. James lay dying and his two riding companion were in shock - standing around, checking for a pulse, as all were waiting in darkness for care. A Sheriff's car arrived after 20 minutes. An ambulance 3o minutes later. Flight for life landed at ~60 minutes and departed at ~75 minutes. James was declared dead hours later in La Jolla. The city did not pay this fellow's family a penny. The 101 was exponentially more dangerous then and the response from the city was sub-standard. Yet - no pay-out. This Walker pay-out is a shifty, give-away from city insiders to a city "friend".
DeleteIt sounds to me like Mr. James Swarzman should have called an attorney. There are so many more stories of bicycles that have been mowed down on that stretch. It will continue until its fixed.
DeleteI know the recent ones have suits in the works. $11 million is just the first in a long list. We better sell PV to help pay for all the mishaps for delaying fixing these hazards.
Dark days ahead. Ask Roberta's, Stephanie's, or Dr. Jennings Worley's families.
9:40 - Now you're showing your true colors. Nicely done. No sense at all. You might be Lword kid or something?
ReplyDeleteLets hope your family does not get mowed down on that road. We taxpayers will pay millions for even morons like you.
9:40 - Hey tard. Roberta was hit from behind just like Stephanie.
ReplyDeleteWalker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
“Ms. Walker suffered catastrophic injuries…,” Susolik said. “Tragically, she will be suffering from the impact of those injuries for the rest of her life. The settlement will allow Ms. Walker to obtain the long-term care she will require to live comfortably with the care she needs.”
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
https://www.kusi.com/encinitas-leaders-push-for-changes-to-coast-highway-after-bike-safety-advocate-suffers-serious-injuries/
ReplyDeleteWhy would our Mayor back down from her earlier commitment?
I guess she could care less about the future people and kids getting smeared on this unsafe road?
WTF?
and do not even get me started on that jackass newbee - https://www.sbsun.com/2009/04/30/after-a-dust-up-over-development-mosca-skipped-over-for-sierra-madre-mayor-seat/
ReplyDeleteEncinitas leaders push for changes to Coast Highway after bike safety advocate suffers serious injuries
Posted: December 11, 2018
Wow that was three years ago. Some fast track. We have been luck no one else has died in those 3 years. I fear this year will claim another life for the death trap remains intact.
thanks for no action City Council. I'm sure Roberta and Stephanie are stoked as they choke down their pain meds.
10:26 - and why is their med schedule your business, you fucknut? Ride your bike into a highway without looking at you're own peril - dum-dum. This is not the City's responsibilty. The city should not be liable for stupid.
Delete10:26 etc: You are stupid enough to be Trump supporters. The two accidents happened in the sharrow lane. There are sharrow lanes from La Costa Ave south to Solana Beach. Walker got a big settlement because she's Blakespear's friend.
Delete10:40- sounds like you need to take your meds.
ReplyDelete10:48pm - Trump supporter. Ha. Again showing your stupidity. Walker received a big settlement because:
ReplyDeleteWalker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
“Ms. Walker suffered catastrophic injuries…,” Susolik said. “Tragically, she will be suffering from the impact of those injuries for the rest of her life. The settlement will allow Ms. Walker to obtain the long-term care she will require to live comfortably with the care she needs.”
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
The City of Encinitas has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a claim with Roberta Walker, the former executive director of Cardiff 101 Main Street who filed a lawsuit against the city after she was struck by a pickup truck while cycling in Leucadia, according to the plaintiffs’ attorney Ed Susolik.
Just before sunrise on December 8, 2018, Walker, a longtime cycling advocate, was riding her bicycle in a “sharrow” lane on North Coast Highway 101 when she was hit from behind by a truck headed southbound near Phoebe Street intersection in front of the Leucadia Post Office.
Stephanie will get a big settlement because:
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
More will receive huge pain and suffering payments do the conditions explained here:
https://www.kusi.com/encinitas-leaders-push-for-changes-to-coast-highway-after-bike-safety-advocate-suffers-serious-injuries/
The Mayor and Kranz edmit its a hazard and needs to be corrected.
Wake up tard! or better yet gets eome sleep. Your logic is failing.
*admit
ReplyDelete11:27 You've repeatedly failed the logic and reality tests. All you can do is copy and paste long news stories. There are sharrows in cities all over the place. Why are you picking on Leucadia 101? How dumb and reckless does anybody have to be to ride a bike in traffic in the dark?
ReplyDeleteFinally a good question.
ReplyDeleteYou see sharrows around on residential road with design speeds under 35 miles per hour. Hwy 101 was designed as a highway with a design speed of 65 miles per hour. That is why so many of us feel comfortable going 60+ on Hwy 101.
If you want people to drive slower and lower the fatality rate on the road redesign the road with a design speed lower than 40 mph. Its that simple.
Until then, people will continue to be mowed down and the tax payers will continue to pay out millions of their hard earned tax dollars, because sharrows on a road with a design speed of 60 mph + is not smart or per code.
The families suffer pain and suffering (ask Roberta).
That is why it's called Hwy 101. HIHGWAY !!!!!! GET IT?
ReplyDeleteStupid people ride a bike in the dark then they wonder what happened...Why oh' why do stupid people keep breeding?
Like stupid people sitting on the beach at the base of a cliff thinking nothing can happen. F'ing people never seem to wise up.
Why would you say stupid people ride in the dark? Why wouldn't they? Do people drive cars in the dark? Bikes have lights and reflectors now genius. Its no different. Is it OK to walk at night or should everyone have to drive a car everywhere?
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good point in that the road name should be changed to reflect the change in the road after I5 was built in the 1950s and the state give the roadway to the City to serve as a local mainstreet. Most other Cities chose not to call their segment of the old PCH alignment a "Highway". Encinitas just chose their name poorly.
Hence the old PCH alignment is called in La Jolla- La Jolla Blvd. and Torrey Pines Road,
Del Mar named theirs Camino Del Mar
and Carlsbad - Carlsbad Blvd.
I submit to the City Council and Citizens of Encinitas that the Encinitas City Council put out a survey to change the name of the old Hwy 101 alignment to reflect its current needed use for our community. My suggestions are:
For the three different coastal areas:
Cardiff Mainstreet 101, Encinitas Mainstreet 101 and Leucadia Mainstreet 101, or just simply;
Cardiff 101, Encinitas 101 and Leucadia 101, or;
Camino Del Funky for Leucadia, Camino Del Surfy for Encinitas, and Camino Del Beachy for Cardiff?
What do you propose we call the local main streets?
Hwy 101 was not designed for 60 or 65 MPH through Leucadia, Old Encinitas and Cardiff. There are far too many T intersections, + intersections, stops, lights and roadside businesses for that to be true. And nobody was mowed down. Stop the bullshit, you moron.
ReplyDeleteIs 8:02 the same idiot who doesn't believe in global warming and climate change?
ReplyDeleteNo.
DeleteYou might ask yourself, who is the idiot?
I'm not 8:02 but anyone that believes in man made gullible warming is delusional. The lies from goofy eyed clowns have been going on for over 25 years. Lie after lie.
DeleteSo genius, tell all of us about raising seas, acid rain, the ozone getting larger, dying polar bears etc.
Come on, give it your best shot.
Can 8:02 confirm that Walker had lights and reflectors on her bike when riding in the pre-dawn darkness on Leucadia 101 on 12/8/18?
ReplyDeleteI do not need to confirm anything. The City signed the settlement agreement and paid $11 million dollars for what they believe is their fair share of liability tied to that accident. I would like to see the police report. Any idea how they can bury that piece of public document for so long?
DeleteOK, 3:57, you can't confirm that Walker had lights and reflectors on her bike when she was hit from behind in the pre-dawn darkness on Leucadia 101 on 12/8/18.
DeleteOnsite witnesses gave statements to the sheriff: no lights, dark clothing, pitch black out. $11M is no fair share, it's a friend's payoff.
DeleteIn addition to the mayor's hysterical kneejerk restriping she made sure to take care of her pal come payday. Will she treat the guy killed by her wacko bollarding on Leucadia Blvd. as well?
Surely removing the bollards at the site of his death is as huge an admission of guilt as anything the mayor blabbed about after Walker's accident. The Leucadia Blvd. man deserves whatever he can get from us, I would not blame his family a bit.
There's no spinning what is so obviously the Walker case.
How can you say that 1:21? I think you better go look at the old state hwy 101 studies and plans that were completed back in the 1920s and 1930. Indeed that highway that connected LA to TJ previous to I5 was in fact designed for freeway speeds. The Highway design speed is 65 mph.
ReplyDeleteYou are showing your ignorance, Dumbshit.
Highway 101 through what is now the city of Encinitas was not designed for 65 MPH. If you insist it was, show the proof.
ReplyDeleteNo need to, the lawyers continue to do that in the suits.
DeleteHighway 101 through San Diego County was originally aligned in 1926. Some parts were realigned in 1933. For example, the 1926 alignment was what is now the narrow, very steep, winding road from the Torrey Pines State Beach parking lot up through the bluff to the mesa above. I doubt any car could take that hill up or down at 65 mph today, let alone in the '20s or early '30s.
ReplyDeleteTop speed for Model T Fords produced from 1908 through 1927 was 35 mph. For Model A Fords made from 1927 through 1931, top speed was 65 mph.
I seriously doubt any driver was whizzing past Noah's Ark, the Log Cabins Motel, the Shamrock Cafe and the La Paloma Theater pedal to the metal at 65 mph any time in 1927 or the 1930s.
Well they sure were going over 60 mph in the 40s through 2020 and continues into 2021. Its the same straight fast roadway designed for 65 mph speeds. It needs to change to slow the speeds.
DeleteIt was not designed for 65 mph when cars' top speed was 35 mph! How many speed tables are there now between La Costa Avenue and Encinitas Boulevard? Are you saying drivers are zooming to 65 mph between the 30 mph speed tables? Do you actually live around here?
DeleteOOO those speed tables really do something. Not. The fricken pot holes from the City not maintaining the streets have a greater impact than those micro bumps.
DeleteThe pocket rockets love them at about 70 mph. It help them pull the front wheel up.
4:51 - Your writing is backwards like your thinking. I do not need to show you the proof, the lawyers did that and will continue to do that in the next suit. If you want to know the facts look them up yourself.
ReplyDeleteStephanie's suit will settle in the millions and the poor dead Phd will settle somewhere between $10 to $50 million.
These leaders lack of addressing known hazards are costing us tax payers big time, not to mention all the pain and suffering to the victims.
6:08 It obvious you haven't done the research and don't know what you're talking about. You made the claim. Back it up with proof.
ReplyDelete6:08 - No Thanks. I have no desire to waste my time on a loser like you. I'll wait for the next suit to settle to again prove my point. Later hater.
ReplyDelete7:41 You're contradicting yourself. You're 6:08!
DeleteJoe Mosca you are a fricken idiot. No one in Encinitas wants to or likes to riding buses. They do it because they are poor. You Idiot. Adding a bench or a crappy bus shelter will do nothing to ridership.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. But don't worry about these fudge packers, watch out for the real racists out there: https://www.takimag.com/article/saying-no-to-black-people/print
ReplyDeleteJoe Mosca you are a fricken idiot. No one in Encinitas wants to or likes riding buses. They do it because they can not afford to drive. Adding a bench or a crappy bus shelter will do nothing for ridership.
ReplyDeleteWTF -- The City Council just explained that the alternatives that were presented did not achieve the top priority goal to establish a continuous class II bike lane. They all agreed that a continuous class II bicycle lane in the southbound direction is highest priority yet they just approved a motion for alternative two that does not accomplish that key objective.
Could we have a more fricken dysfunctional City Council?
No wonder people are getting mowed down on our streets.
I say recall Mosca. He started all this BS about revamping the streetscape and now is a complete shit show, and of course BIA gobbled it up because she has never seen a train-wreck she did not want to join.
If you do not know what I'm taking about watch this full on Shit Show starting at minute 47 min. in the presentation here - https://encinitas.granicus.com/player/clip/2418?view_id=7&redirect=true
You don't know what you're talking about, 9:37, so nobody can learn anything true from you.
DeleteWhatever 9:48 - Eyebrows rise when the $11 million dollar settlements drop. more to come.
ReplyDeleteIf sharrows made cities liable for accidents, there would be no sharrows anywhere.
ReplyDeleteYou are so stupid 10:57. Stay off the road. Per law, Sharrows are for streets with average speeds of less than 35mph.
ReplyDeleteCity's lose law suits when the sharrows are on road designed as a highway with highway speeds well above 35 mph.
Its a liability to the tune of $11 million dollars per accident and there will be more.
This is what the results are from 2018
According to court documents and reports from close friends, Walker suffered multiple injuries — traumatic brain injury, fractured skull, spinal and facial fractures, nine broken ribs, a broken clavicle and sacrum, subdural hematoma and impaired mobility and cognition — and was placed into a medically-induced coma.
Walker underwent several emergency surgeries in the trauma center at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla and later returned to the hospital for another operation to replace a missing portion of her skull that had been previously removed.
Prior to the accident, Walker, previously a policy advisor to former County Supervisor Dave Roberts, had been an outspoken supporter of the city’s proposed Leucadia Streetscape project, citing much-needed improvements for cyclists and pedestrians along a stretch of Coast Highway 101.
Just days after the accident, bicycle-safety advocates and friends of Walker attended an Encinitas City Council meeting, urging city officials to take immediate action and to expedite the Streetscape project and roadway upgrades.
“One profound irony of this accident is that Ms. Walker herself had advocated for a dedicated bike lane in multiple City Council meetings,” Susolik said.
Hundreds of cyclists, residents and local leaders attended a “Ride for Roberta” event hosted by Councilwoman Kellie Shay Hinze, then-executive director of Leucadia 101 Main Street, a sister organization of Cardiff 101.
“Ms. Walker hopes that this settlement will send a message to all cities and counties in California to maintain their bike lanes with the utmost regard for the safety of bicyclists so that this type of accident resulting from dangerous roadways never happens again.”
http://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2021/05/51921-city-council-meeting-open-thread.html#comment-form
This is the result from 2017
NCINITAS — San Diego County Sheriff’s investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating the driver of a Mercedes Benz, who struck a bicyclist on Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia on Aug. 11 but did not stop.
Meanwhile, friends and family are pouring out support for the woman struck by the car, who suffered a severe brain injury during the incident.
Deputies responded shortly after 10 p.m. to the intersection of North Coast Highway 101 and Basil Street, where a 30-year-old woman on a bike in the southbound designated bicycle “sharrow” lane was hit by a car, according to sheriff’s Cpl. Brenda Sipley. The driver did not stop at the scene and fled southbound.
A family friend identified the victim as Stephanie Berger-McKenna, a marathon runner who had just left Pandora Pizza with her husband, who was following behind her on a skateboard, when the vehicle, which investigators identified as a white or silver ‘90s model Mercedes-Benz, struck her and drove off.
The family friend, Tammy Livingston, said that Berger-McKenna was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, where she has undergone two surgeries — one to remove a portion of her skull to reduce swelling and the second to remove a blood clot discovered following the first surgery.
What's the point of repeating the injury reports? Nobody is saying they weren't injured. They were both riding in the dark. Did they have lights and reflectors and reflective clothing? The speed limit now is 30. Then it was probably still 35. If sharrows made cities liable, no city would have them!
Delete5:51 oh snore! Great reading for insomnia, why don't you repeat it another 15 times? Not working.
DeleteI guarantee you that someone will be run down on s. hwy 101 in cardiff as well and the City will be lose millions. The Ciy actually removed a perfectly good class II bicycle lane snd pushed the bicyclists out into a vehicle travel lane.
ReplyDeleteCompletely retarded and that is why all the real bicyclists know BIA is bad for bikes.
Fund the entire streetscape and quit fucking around. This is urgent and you wasted three years since the last slaughter.
ReplyDeletethe future payments for not addressing the hazard are much greater than the cost of the entire streetscape. I think Joe Mosca should ask Roberta and Stephanie what they think. Don't you?
Not one of these clowns has ANY experience in road and safety design. Hell, a laborer putting out traffic signs has more knowledge than the city council buffoons.
ReplyDeleteOn another topic, I saw the latest idea from the "buffoon group" on table scrap containers. Myyyy Gawd...what nut case came up with this idea? It's the size of exterior private mailbox.
If you are the one that came up with this then you, are indeed retarded.
Yea, the expense for these mini-lunch box sized containers was absurd! I bet over 90% will never be used.
DeleteAgreed 7:57 -
ReplyDeleteKellie Hinzie step up and show some leadership. None of the other clowns have a stick of common sense.
Fund the entire 30 million and reduce future deaths. You know its needed and you know it will.
Fuck Mosca. He is a newbie clown big time with zero common sense.
Kellie - put up the common sense suggestion and the other clowns will follow in your leadership. Its time for you to step up!!
Oh no no, 8:29. Your comments have Hinze backward. She continues to mimic the mayor and will never break from the herd. She is constitutionally incapable of leadership. She's been on the council how many years now and still can't act alone.
DeleteShe had described the $30 million dollar I-Bank loan as "flexible to use for other projects" so worse than no leadership capabilities, she can't even think. What was it she said about the 3rd-party housing financing scheme? "It seems too good to be true" and "It makes my head hurt." You're going to need to wait till hell freezes over for anything that even resembles leadership from that one.
Look elsewhere on the council for help, but to whom???
Among other wonders, the council just discovered the Streetscape plan that's been in place since Jan 13, 2010 does not have a continuous bike lane through the whole corridor.
ReplyDeleteThe plan won't eliminate car vs. bike accidents. It's more likely to increase them because bicyclists will have to ride in the stupid, too-small roundabouts with the cars and trucks.
Where they can ride on the sidewalk and crosswalks with pedestrians, they can collide with walkers instead of cars and trucks. Those injuries will be less severe. Really smart, eh?
Well ya know 2:27 as long as most voters are asleep at the wheel the mayor plans to virtue signal her "improvement" all the way to the senate. She'll then do the same here as she did with her Cardiff cycle track when the bodies started piling up: blame the victims. Soulless piece of work, that one.
Delete2:27 pm - No you have it wrong. The City Council just can not read plans and has no clue what's its doing so you know they will just completely F it up and make it even more unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. Switching back and forth between sharrows is making it worse not better. Geeze, just complete the road diet and take some needed parking where you need to keep it four lanes near Leucadia Blvd. Is it that hard to read plans and figure out how to stripe a 7 foot wide bikelane?
ReplyDeleteWhats with those ridiculous poorly designed "parking pod"? Could they be any less efficient?
Lets take 300 feet by 30 feet and parallel park 8 cars. What fricken retarts. Most people were parking reverse angle parking which is much more efficient.
Lastly, Who T F approved paving over paradise on the east side of Vulcan Avenue and gifting all that public land to serve as parking for the high density apartment owners on the east side of Vulcan Avenue? I would like to know a name to give all that recognition for wasting millions of dollars worth of public space.
Why pave over paradise and give away public land, when the eastern side of Vulcan Ave could be a nice Class I bike and pedestrian path like SANDAG built in Cardiff? Implementing free public public parking is subsidizing those property owners and wasting all that valuable public land that should be used for pedestrian and bicyclists amenities. Not to mention its ugly as sin and promotes bad public behavior need the RR tracks. Do we have anyone at City Hall with a lick of common sense?
Why own a large property in the middle of downtown Encinitas worth millions and have "finger painting classes".
DeleteIf these people in office had a business, they'd be out of business in a short time.
Sell that property and stop being fools for finger painting.
1. The people who live on Vulcan have no where else to park but in the RR ROW. 2. The CRT will go between the tracks and 101. That's already in the plan. 3. You're not recognizing the basic problem: There's not enough room between the west side of Vulcan and the west side of the commercial zone on 101 for all the stuff the various interests want to put there. If the situation had been addressed from the start with that in mind, we'd come closer to a solution. 4. It'll get a lot worse when the tracks are doubled.
DeleteIN answer to 6:00's question of who gave away east Vulcan to developers. It was voted on by a city council when Gus Vina was City Manager. Obviously Kranz voted for it, but I recall two citizens jumping up and objecting to this idea. These citizens were Ginger Perkins and Donna Westbook, who argued that the City should NEVER give away land to developers and that it could be used for a bike lane instead of 101. A bike lane on Vulcan could have made more sense for Encinitas residents to bike to the train station and for bikers who work at city's largest employer--the City of Encinitas. Vina loved to give away city property to developers or take away private property and give it to developers so that they could justify more houses in projects than they were entitled to. For details, ask Marco.
DeleteEast of Vulcan is private property, most of which became apartment houses before the city incorporated in '86. West of Vulcan is the railroad right-of-way over to the edge of the 101 pavement. The ROW is 100 feet for almost its whole length from La C Ave to Enc Blvd.
DeleteThe CRT will go west of the tracks. The second set of tracks will go east of the current tracks and displace the parking that's recently been put there.
There's not enough room west of the tracks for the parking pods and the CRT, which gets us back to the basic point: There's not enough room in the Leuc 101 corridor for all the stuff various interests want to put there.
The only thing that comes close to solving the problems is to trench the tracks as Solana Beach did. No local, county, state or fed politician had or has the cajones to pursue that solution.
The City Council should NEVER give away public property to developers.
DeleteWhen and where did the CC give away public property to developers?
DeleteThey gave away the easement--which is a right that belonged to the City. Just ask a few property owners in this town what happens to THEIR property when a developer wants to take it over.
DeleteWhat easement and where? Be specific. What private properties have been "taken over" by developers? Plenty have been bought.
Delete7:14 otherwise known as Tony, YOU WERE AT THE MEETING AND VOTED FOR IT!
Delete9:45 Nonsense! Show the evidence!
Delete10:24- The people who live on Vulcan have no where else to park but in the RR ROW.
DeleteReply: Hey 10:24, heres a concept they can park on their property, or pay for parking but the public should not be substidizing parking.
It bad for the earth. Free subsidized Parking increases run off, promotes driving vehicles, lowers demand for NCTD and other transit services and lowers demand for active transportation like bicycle riding and walking.
Who the fuck would support such a thing? They must hate public transit, bicycling and walking, right?
The City needs to block off the parking and convert that space to a bike and pedestrian trail! Do it now.
Obviously, you idiot, they don't park on their property because there's not enough room.
DeleteOr said another way, the best and brightest don’t end up in government.
ReplyDeleteWhen do we put on trial the clowns that filled the skate parks with sand a year ago?
ReplyDeleteAlso I recall a fake scientist from scripps in san diego calling for the same nimrods to close the beaches due to covid spreading from the ocean spray?
I volunteer to do my civic duty and be on the jury and vote for the death penalty.
Fair is fair?
Agreed.
DeleteYep... I'm still waiting after 30 years of lies about raising seas...well????
Delete5:53 It's truly astonishing that in an age that anybody with a computer and web access, you can look up and find accurate information about virtually everything.
DeleteYet there are some people who must be so deeply stupid that they ignore the facts that are so easy to find.
Read this and scores of other evidence that says the same thing. Cure your stunning ignorance:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/16/one-day-disappear-tuvalu-sinking-islands-rising-seas-climate-change
"raising seas, east and west coasts underwater"
DeleteSTILL WAITING...30 years later.
Man made global warming, the lie that keeps giving.
4:27 You are hopelessly stupid and willfully ignorant.
Delete11:40...are trying to convince people that "the warmers" haven't been saying the east and west coasts would be underwater for the last 30 years?????
DeleteThen genius, you must have been asleep in a coffin.
That is "exactly" what the liars have been saying for 30 years. And I'm ignorant?????????
How do you feed yourself? A straw, by the hand of others?
You probably don't think biden has Alzheimer's either.
You FOOL...
11:32 You are a fucking idiot. The evidence of global warming, climate change and sea level rise is everywhere and overwhelming. Only pea brains like you deny it.
Delete2:02 Prove the sea levels are raising. I'll wait while you try. Man made global warming is a lie and has been for decades. While stupid people will fall for anything, this is a perfect something for them to believe in.
DeleteOh' wait...that would be you.
You should be ashamed to be such a moron. You are willfully ignorant. The evidence is everywhere and overwhelming. You don't have the brains to read it.
DeleteO.K genius 12:47, for thirty years the lie of raising seas has been screamed from the leftist whacko roof tops.
DeleteAnd what a big surprise...NO RASING SEAS.
It was a lie thirty years ago and is a lie today.
It's whackos like you that will believe in anything.
Wake upppppp....no raising seas...it's a lie. Just like all the other lies the frauds tell everyone Take away their grant money and you won't hear anything.
Man made global warming...the man made LIE
Hey 2:02, where is the evidence? Well? Come on, tell all of us where the evidence is of man made global warming. I'll wait for your proof.
DeleteThat fake scientist from scripps should be held liable for all the damage done. Outside separated at the beach was as safe as you could get. It shows the level of idiots leading this shit show.
ReplyDeleteFake science is right. Reruns of "dumb and dumber"
DeleteJulie Thunder just published an OpEd documentiong the significant increase of crime in Encinitas. There must be something to it since Blakespear dragged out the sheriff at the meeting last night to testify what a safe community we live in. The mayor's image control campaign must be active 24/7.
ReplyDeleteGot a link?
DeleteIt's in the Coast News. You can find it online.
DeleteA whole lot more people would read it if you posted the link!
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