I agree with the person who has been waiting for five months on
getting a 25mph sign for safety on Westwood. We feel your pain over
on Hirasaki and Mantelli.
Is growth injuring our kids?
I agree with the person who has been waiting for five months on getting a 25mph sign for safety on Westwood. We feel your pain over on Hirasaki and Mantelli. I have been waiting to hear back from Mr. (Don) Dey (city traffic engineer) myself. And yet as of 4/2/07 another child was struck by a car from school at Wren and Welburn. How many more children need to be hurt or killed before the City or Mr. Dey realize that they need to take a look at these problem areas first before they start allowing anymore growth in this city. Many of our streets can not accommodate the amount of traffic that they are being used for. What can a citizen do to protect his or her families if no one at the city is willing to help out their own citizens? Red-Line can you help?
Red Phone:
Dear Caller, maintaining levels of city services while the city is growing is always a challenge, and yes, allowing a city to grow faster than it is able to accommodate basic services such as police and fire suppression is not good planning. However, planning and engineering staff take their marching orders from the city council, our elected officials. If the city council approves a project, sometimes over the objection of planning staff, there are few options available to staff. We suggest you contact your elected officials and raise your concerns with them. Gilroy does not have council members elected by district, so whichever one you are comfortable with is your best choice. Here’s how you get their contact information:
www.ci.gilroy.ca.us/cityhall/city_council.html
Crazy crowd controlled
I was just wondering in your article (Crazy Koyote Out of Hand?, March 31) you say not one person was arrested? Huh? Then why were there people in handcuffs taken away in the police van from the scene? People are so quick to point the finger at what the police are doing or not doing. If in fact no one was hurt and or arrested then hats off to everyone involved, mainly to the police for calming the crowd in the manner that they did without anyone getting hurt. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GPD!
Red Phone:
Dear Caller, Red Phone contacted the Gilroy Police Department, which responded with the following statement.
“No arrests were made at the Crazy Koyote on this date. This was a large disturbance with multiple fights within the crowd of an estimated 150 persons. Our priority was to protect life and property and disperse the crowd. To this date no victims of any crime have come forward to file a report with the Gilroy Police Department.”
Seething over animal cruelty
I am so upset. I read in the police blotter (Dispatch, March 29) about the person who taped those dogs into a box and one died and one had to be put down. I hope they catch the person and they pay for what they did. They should tape those people into a box and see how it feels.
Red Phone:
Dear Caller, while Red Phone isn’t, and wouldn’t, condone torture as apt punishment for the monster who heartlessly slaughtered those dogs – animals that are born to love people, there is a part of the Bible that indeed would make sense in this case: An eye for an eye.
