OT: Sun Sprint Cracks

Marcelo Vanzin

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Oct 12, 2016, 1:47:59 PM10/12/16

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Some of us noticed this morning that the cracks on the Sun Sprint path near Sun (err... Facebook) are getting wider and are at the point where one could swallow a wheel and cause a nasty accident.

Who's responsible for fixing that? San Mateo County? We should ping someone before someone ends up with a broken wheel or worse.

(Or ride more Skyline.)

Peter Colijn

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Oct 12, 2016, 2:11:06 PM10/12/16

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Yeah those have been freaking me out recently too.

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Nathan Davis

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Oct 12, 2016, 2:50:39 PM10/12/16

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No idea who fixes those, but I've increased my following distance on that section the last few times I've ridden it as they do look quite nasty.

-- Nathan

Darrin Ward

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Oct 12, 2016, 3:15:56 PM10/12/16

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from a thread on weed trimming along that trail in 2011 on the sf2g list

"I noticed that the weeds were getting a bit invasive on the Sun sprint, so I emailed ABAG, the maintainers of the bay trail, to let them know. They contacted the guy at Caltrans who is in charge of that trail and he is going to "send his crew out to mow the weeds as soon as possible."

maybe start there.

Darrin Ward

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Oct 12, 2016, 3:18:54 PM10/12/16

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more specifically i would start with

http://baytrail.org/contact/

Laura Thompson, Project Manager, contact for San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.

(415) 820-7935 or lau...@abag.ca.gov

Marcelo Vanzin

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Oct 12, 2016, 3:47:33 PM10/12/16

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Thanks, I'll send her an e-mail later today.

On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 12:18:54 PM UTC-7, Darrin wrote:

more specifically i would start with
http://baytrail.org/contact/

Laura Thompson, Project Manager, contact for San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties.
(415) 820-7935 or lau...@abag.ca.gov

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Darrin Ward <dmw...@gmail.com> wrote:

from a thread on weed trimming along that trail in 2011 on the sf2g list
"I noticed that the weeds were getting a bit invasive on the Sun sprint, so I emailed ABAG, the maintainers of the bay trail, to let them know. They contacted the guy at Caltrans who is in charge of that trail and he is going to "send his crew out to mow the weeds as soon as possible."

maybe start there.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:49 AM, 'Nathan Davis' via SF2G <sf...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

No idea who fixes those, but I've increased my following distance on that section the last few times I've ridden it as they do look quite nasty.

-- Nathan

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Peter Colijn <caff...@colijn.ca> wrote:

Yeah those have been freaking me out recently too.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote:

Some of us noticed this morning that the cracks on the Sun Sprint path near Sun (err... Facebook) are getting wider and are at the point where one could swallow a wheel and cause a nasty accident.

Who's responsible for fixing that? San Mateo County? We should ping someone before someone ends up with a broken wheel or worse.

(Or ride more Skyline.)

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Kurt Wallace Martin

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Oct 12, 2016, 4:27:07 PM10/12/16

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caltrans is responsible for the maintenance of that section of the trail. These are the contacts I have:

Herrera.Raul@dot.ca. gov

raymund...@dot.ca.gov

paul....@dot.ca.gov

scott....@dot.ca.gov

kurt

Marcelo Vanzin

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Oct 14, 2016, 3:11:01 PM10/14/16

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Got a reply from Laura:

Hi Marcelo,

Thanks very much for your note and for alerting us to this safety concern. I have forwarded the information to Caltrans (they own the trail right-of-way) and their bicycle/pedestrian coordinator has made a request of their maintenance department to fill the cracks.

For the longer term, Facebook will be resurfacing this section of Bay Trail as part of their larger campus expansion project which will also include a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Highway 84. I'm not sure on the timing of this project, but I will let you know when Caltrans gets back to me about their short term fixes.

Thanks again,

Laura

Marcelo Vanzin

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Oct 28, 2016, 7:35:30 PM10/28/16

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Hey SF2Gers,

Laura from the Bay Trail group has asked me whether the work was done, since she got a reply from Caltrans, but I haven't really ridden there since I noticed the cracks...

Can anyone confirm whether things look better?

Thanks!

Alexandre Passos

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Oct 28, 2016, 7:38:18 PM10/28/16

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Yes. Some things (they look like the little stones tarmac is made out of) were put in the holes so they won't swallow wheels anymore. The stones can fly out when you ride over them but that's much better than the alternative.

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Peter Chang

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Oct 31, 2016, 1:07:12 PM10/31/16

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Le vendredi 28 octobre 2016 16:35:30 UTC-7, Marcelo Vanzin a écrit :

Can anyone confirm whether things look better?

they poured some slurry into the larger cracks. they didn't play w/ a 'roller' so there are little ridges where the cracks used to be, but traffic will probably get these more even over time.

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