Hwy 9-ers: Pucker Up
Sherwood Harrington
signs make it official: the re-configuration of the 9/upper 236
intersection begins on Monday. This, combined with the apparently-stalled
work on the top hairpin on the Saratoga side, will make for an
entertaining runup to the rainy season for us Highway 9 commuters.
Speaking of the latter "construction" site -- I don't think a pebble has
been moved there in at least a month. Maybe we should start a pool on
when CalTrans remembers that the job is still active.
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Sherwood Harrington
Creepy Hollow
Glen Appleby
ba.mountain-folk,Sherwood Harrington <sherw...@SPAMrahul.net>
wrote:
>The orange plastic fences have been up for a while, and today the electric
>signs make it official: the re-configuration of the 9/upper 236
>intersection begins on Monday.
Is this The Gap?
(ob Geoff) Aw, I was just getting to the point where I could take
that corner at 60 [1].
[1] Actual fact is that I wouldn't routinely take it at half of
that speed and, near the end of my driving daze, I'd just go
straight onto 236. WIMP ... I am.
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Sherwood Harrington
> In a time of great yearning, right around Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:35:50
> -0700, Glen Appleby <gl...@rcip.com> raised high the noble flag of
> freedom of expression and did *this* with it:
>>On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:32:44 +0000 (UTC), in
>>ba.mountain-folk,Sherwood Harrington <sherw...@SPAMrahul.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>The orange plastic fences have been up for a while, and today the electric
>>>signs make it official: the re-configuration of the 9/upper 236
>>>intersection begins on Monday.
>>
>>Is this The Gap?
> I believe so; the intersection where we both (and anyone else down
> that road) had to go up 9, make a u-turn, and then come back onto 236
> coming south.
> I wonder if part of this will remedy the problem of northbound 9
> traffic being able to make the left onto 236?
If they're still going with last year's plan, yes: it will be turned into
an all-right-angles 4-way stop. The sweeping curve will be eliminated.
James King
The real problem was the people who couldn't take that corner at
whatever speed they were making, and didn't abort out to 236. The
grove of redwoods collected quite a few bruises, and of course there
have been quite a few fatalities for such a simple curve.
Jim
Aleksandr Milewski
> The real problem was the people who couldn't take that corner at
> whatever speed they were making, and didn't abort out to 236. The
> grove of redwoods collected quite a few bruises, and of course there
> have been quite a few fatalities for such a simple curve.
This whole project pisses me off, though. Clearly they think the stop
sign is going to be more dangerous than the curve was, since the stop
sign will be much better marked.
The question that CalTrans has never answered is this: What happens if
the accident rate increases after the change?
James King
I came back over 9 for the first time in a while today, and they sure
seem to be making more of a production of it than they need to.
Jim
Glen Appleby
King <jim...@cruzio.com> wrote:
>I came back over 9 for the first time in a while today, and they sure
>seem to be making more of a production of it than they need to.
Including lights and camera?
James King
...
>
> Including lights and camera?
>
Plenty of lights. Cameras not in evidence, but you never know. It
wouldn't surprise me to find cameras in the trees. Gotta watch out
for terrorists.
It's going to be good for Revenue Enhancement, too. Folks going up
the hill are going to get in the habit of not reslly stopping before
turning right. Folks comming down the hill intending on using 236
are going to tend to just continue without stopping (some by force
of habit). So those cameras in the trees can be verrry useful.
Jim
Steve
I agree. If we're going to have an all-seeing all-knowing police
surveillance state, we might as well have cameras and microphones
*everywhere* -- and running Windows Lite so the recorded information
will be secured as best as is humanly possible.
Regards,
Steve