Where do i go?:
”
My message is on the intersection of Leavesley and Arroyo
Circle
– when you go from Arroyo Circle to westbound Leavesley … that
is a nightmare. Everybody gets in the far left turn lane then they
shoot across all the lanes to enter the northbound freeway. I think
the lanes need to be lined because nobody knows what lane to be
in.
Where do i go?: “My message is on the intersection of Leavesley and Arroyo Circle – when you go from Arroyo Circle to westbound Leavesley … that is a nightmare. Everybody gets in the far left turn lane then they shoot across all the lanes to enter the northbound freeway. I think the lanes need to be lined because nobody knows what lane to be in.
Then when I go in there in my correct lane because I’m a Gilroy resident and I know how these lanes work, I get flipped off, I get honked at and almost get my car creamed because these people don’t have clear delineation of the turn lanes.”
Well the Red Phone doesn’t think it’s necessary for people to get flipped off and honked at, so we contacted Don Dey, city transportation engineer for the City of Gilroy, to get the scoop.
Dey said that because that particular intersection is out of proximity of Highway 101, meaning there is one more stoplight before the actual on-ramps to the highway, that it “wouldn’t be appropriate” to paint 101 N or 101 S in the corresponding lanes at the Leavesley and Arroyo Circle intersection. He added, however, that paint does fade over time.
“I’ll go out and look at it and see what’s going on,” he said. “It could very well be that the lane striping has faded and if that’s the case, we’ll re-delineate it with striping.”
Dey added that there have been similar issues with the three turn lanes at Camino Arroyo, near the new Target shopping center. He said the city has already contacted CalTrans about that particular intersection and have advised them that more definition is needed for those turn lanes.
“We have advised and recommended CalTrans (about the Camino Arroyo intersection)” and now they will decide what to do, Dey said.
movies, movies, where are the movies?: “I just wanted to know from The Dispatch who’s responsible for putting in what’s playing at the Platinum theaters? Especially on Sunday over the weekend.”
You must not read the Red Phone regularly because we’ve addressed this issue before. No one is responsible for putting the movie times in because we don’t run the movie times. A movie theater will place an ad to show the community what’s playing at the theater. So if you’re desperate to know what’s playing and when, call the theater you wish to visit.
quit ‘yer complaing: “My statement is that I was happy to read that at least one Gilroy High School student had enough brain power to deduce that bringing lunch from home was a more viable option than spending 80 percent of the food break period standing in line and complaining about it. Maybe he should start a movement to bring lunch from home.”
Yet another chuckle from the Red Phone. Not a bad idea, caller. Not only would they save time, but money too. And thank goodness at least one of the student’s brain cells aren’t cooked from standing so long in the hot sun waiting for the food line to move along.
we’re having a ball with this call: “Hi. A couple weeks ago I called to complain about the type because it was too light and I must say you have improved that. It’s very nice to read, though still a little difficult for me to find the different sections. But it’s much better to read.
I have one complaint though. This morning’s paper, there’s a large headline that says, ‘Gilroyans asked to get on the BAL.’ B-A-L. That should be B-A-L-L. You’ve improved the type, can you get a spellchecker too? Thank you very much.”
Before we get to it, the Red Phone thanks you for your compliment on our recently improved print style. But, you gave the Red Phone quite a laugh with your comment on our headline. Had you taken the time to read the article with the headline in question, you’d understand that it was a play on words. The campaign to fund a new library is called, “Get on the BAL” with BAL meaning Build A Library. So the Red Phone thinks maybe some of our callers should get on the ball … and that, good caller, is spelled B-A-L-L.
