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What’s happening with the road work in front of CHS. I’m trying
to figure out how the traffic will spill out onto Santa Teresa
Boulevard.
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“What’s happening with the road work in front of CHS. I’m trying to figure out how the traffic will spill out onto Santa Teresa Boulevard.”
Red Phone: Dear Go With The Flow, When Christopher High School opens in August, about 600 ninth and 10th graders will be flooding the north portion of Gilroy. The school district is working hard to make sure everything runs as smoothly as possible.
In January, the Dispatch ran an in-depth story titled “As Christopher High moves closer to reality, traffic worries abound” that details the plans for traffic around the school.
Three new signal lights are scheduled to be added. West Day Road will be widened to include a center left turn lane, and Santa Teresa Boulevard will also be widened to four lanes near the school. Sidewalks around the school are also scheduled to be installed.
“The district is investing heavily in the infrastructure adjacent to the new Christopher High School,” said Enrique Palacios, the district’s deputy superintendent of business services, last week. “The widening of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Day Road will accommodate traffic improvements and allow for under grounding to utilities – electric, gas, phone and cable – for the high school as well as the future growth of Gilroy. Street lights and landscaping improvements will continue the city’s improvement standard along Santa Teresa Boulevard. The contractor is working long hours to complete the improvements for the opening of school.”
Make the paint match
“The City of Gilroy has many sound walls and has purchased paint to initially paint them. When tagging occurs, could it be possible to obtain the paint code previously used so that you can’t see the wall was tagged? I match mine at home. Or paint the whole panel. It’s quite the eyesore to have three colors on the walls and the tagger still gets to remember they had been there.”
Red Phone: Dear Make It Match, You have a valid point. If the paints don’t match, you might as well leave the graffiti up. But the city does try to keep the coverups looking uniform.
“We have tried to standardize all our sound walls,” said Todd Barreras, the city’s streets, sewers and forestry supervisor. “Our procedure is to paint from panel to panel.”
Some of the sound walls might be privately owned and as a result painted by different people, Barreras said.
The paint the city uses is Product No. 1105-222, Color J 18-2, Sheen Flat for anyone who wants to help with the cleanup.
The city is looking for volunteers to assist with graffiti abatement. If you are interested, you can call 846-0281.
