Bits and Pieces 43

Here is the following post I found on my Face Book page today:

From San Pedro Chamber of Commerce: Important Notice
"Road Closure in San Pedro -- Due to a sinkhole, Paseo del Mar between Weymouth and White Point Preserve will be closed until further notice. Access to Royal Palms, the baseball diamond, and White Point Nature Preserve will remain open for traffic coming onto Paseo del Mar from Western Ave. -- Peggy at the The Corner Store reports that business is down due to the road closure so she sends these alternate routes to the store -- From Western: 1. Go left on 25th, right on Alma, right on 37th and 2 blks up. -- 2. Go left on 25th, right on Patterson, left on Hamilton, right on Barbara, left on 37th. -- From Gaffey: Go right on to Paseo Del Mar and right on Barbara (1st stop sign)."

This is bad for San Pedrans and all others wishing to drive along the coast, in San Pedro.

What alsom makes this worse is that it is going to take monies away from potentially being used to create a permanent fix for San Ramon Canyon and the switchbacks on Palos Verdes Drive East, in Rancho Palos Verdes.

In San Ramon Canyon and at the bottom of it, along 25Th Street in San Pedro, we know there is land in the city of Los Angeles and the folks who live in the more dangerous spots where a debris flow and water could become a real problem, are residents of San Pedro/Los Angeles.

Another sinkhole? Another sinkhole! It's not like those of us familiar with Western Avenue don't have experiences with them, but having a new one around the bend, at the end of Western Avenue is not going to be a picnic.

The last time I drove by the area, the signs were up about it being closed, but there were cars going by the 'smallish' sinkhole that was still mostly on the side of the road and not affecting much of the surface area of Paseo Del Mar.

What was underneath the surface of the asphalt is another story and that is probably the section is now deemed closed.

Well, if you do wish to bypass the area, take 25Th Street to Alma and turn right. As you motor along Alma, you won't be able to miss "The John M. and Muriel Olguin Campus of San Pedro High School" now under construction on the Upper Reservation of Fort MacArthur.

That new annex to the larger high school will have views allowing for watching whales and other wonderful sights between Point Fermin and Catalina Island, and beyond.

The new annex and its transit routes are now seemingly hampered by the prospect of even more sinkholes and cliff slides and had the sinkhole been happening while the approval process for the new annex was underway, I wonder if that might have made some sort of change in thinking as to the location of the new school site.

The good folks living in the Rolling Hills Riviera area of Eastview held an ice cream social over this past weekend. The treats were tasty and the conversations were lively.

The new Environmental Impact Report for Ponte Vista at San Pedro is nearing public release.

When it really is published for public comment depends on who one talks to. Most of the needed study and information regarding the Traffic and Transportation Study has already been published and found, by experts, to be truly bothersome in terms of future daily trip generation forecasts along Western Avenue.

I'll write companion pieces on this blog and my Ponte Vista Blog when I'm not doing 'my other life'.