Heck, it ain’t like nobody ever makes mistakes: The Dispatch
included.
”
I want to tell you that you’re making progress with your
editing, but you need to do better because on the page tonight,
which is Friday’s paper, you have on your first page a glaring
typographical or grammatical error where you throw in ‘house off of
Watsonville Road.’ You don’t need the ‘of.’
Heck, it ain’t like nobody ever makes mistakes: The Dispatch included.
“I want to tell you that you’re making progress with your editing, but you need to do better because on the page tonight, which is Friday’s paper, you have on your first page a glaring typographical or grammatical error where you throw in ‘house off of Watsonville Road.’ You don’t need the ‘of.’ Just like you do very well on page 2 where you talk about ‘Rings off the hook,’ that’s correct. Keep up good work. But train your guys to do some better editing.”
Check out the cutline underneath the porta-potty picture on A3, and you’ll be presently surprised.
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Red Phone is giving one of the city’s recent hires, Don Dey, a tour of the city. He’s a new transportation engineer for Gilroy. And city streets are a biggie on our callers’ minds.
“I’m calling about the need for a stop sign by Byers off of Wren and El Roble Park. Lots of kids go to the park, and lots of people walk their dogs there or run and play. Motorists are very inconsiderate and speed down Wren from the stop sign at Third Street and rarely let people walk across the crosswalk. There should be some sort of sign in the middle of the road or maybe another stop sign to avoid any problems. My son almost got hit by a car one time at that intersection.”
Dey said he would check out the area. However there’s a good chance that the crosswalk doesn’t need a stop sign, he added.
We’ll gave Dey a break since he’s fairly new on the job. But we’ll call him back in a week or two to see what his investigation turned up.
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Dey will also be swinging by to see this sign on Leavesley, which is sort of difficult to pick out from a bush, a pole and other signs nearby.
“Just wanted to call in regarding something I think is important safety wise as far as vehicular traffic. It may be something that would encourage the city to review in terms of their speed limit signs. There is a speed limit sign just south of the Murray/Leavesley interchange as you go westbound and cross over Murray right in front of the Black Bear restaurant there is a speed limit sign there that is pretty much covered up by other signs be it the light pole, and I believe there is another sign there. That’s really the complaint I have. I’m sure that there’s other signs out there that could use a second look by the city. It’s definitely something that hopefully would address some of the high-speed vehicular traffic that’s occurring there.
One suggestion would be to put that sign up before that intersection coming westbound on Leavesley so that folks know what the speed limit is from the point of Highway 101 to Monterey Road. There has definitely been an increase in speed.
Maybe the sign can be placed on both sides of the road. So it’s definitely visible going into the city of Gilroy from that entry point.
OK. Hopefully we get some action from the city and something comes out positive from this.
Red Phone drove to both sites. The crosswalk was empty, which was likely due to the time of day. The sign was, well, hidden. Our caller was right. What did Dey say? The sign is an issue for Caltrans since Caltrans controls the roadway.
Sometimes, progress is slow with these bureaucratic entities – even for Red Phone. We’ll update you on our progress.
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Like for instance, we’ve received multiple calls and placed multiple calls about one particular troublesome neighbor.
“I read your article in the Friday’s paper on the condition of the house located on Carmel and Welburn. I did not call you. If I had, I would have said the exact same thing. I also want to tell you that the police were lying when they said they haven’t had complaints on that particular house. I’ve called numerous times over the past year. The last time was three weeks ago. I even gave the license number of vehicles blocking the alley. What I can’t understand is why the police don’t see vehicles parked illegally.”
Sgt. Kurt Svardal with the Gilroy Police was unaware his fellow officers had visited the home in question previously. Later, he called Red Phone to say they had talked with the residents. But they were cooperative with officers, and it really appears like they’re restoring cars, he said.
Hmmm… should we give these folks the benefit of the doubt?
