Editor,
So San Mateo County is ready to fund Caltrans to build more express lanes on Highway 101, from Interstate 380 north to South San Francisco. But I haven’t heard anything from the SMCTA board challenging Caltrans why the 2022 project came out as it did. Like, why is the new express lane from Hillsdale to Third Avenue in San Mateo like a roller coaster?
Will that work be corrected, and who will pay for it? For that matter, how did the promised “first world freeway paving project” include areas of washboard paving through Belmont, and over 20 patches needed within six months?
A whole lot of tax money was spent on the recent express lane/repaving project, and it didn’t come out well. We’ll all pay for this project funding for decades. Who on the SMCTA board thinks this is acceptable work for $580 million?
If this is how Caltrans builds a road, no thanks. We don’t need more of the same.
Henry Riggs
Menlo Park
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(1) comment
Thanks for your letter, Mr. Riggs. The project sounds like another make-work job to keep union employees busy, and more importantly, rewarded for their “contributions” to the powers-that-be. Money makes the world go around. Your money, their world. As for the recent express lane project, what better way to make more money than doing a sub-par job the first time around, only to be paid, again, for redoing the job. How many times have we seen this? And how many more times in the future? Count on many more times in the future if there are no consequences or accountability.
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