I just had to post the following e-mail I received in response to a maintenance request for a freeway street light that is out, posing a safety issue at an on-ramp apex:
From:
"Caltrans Division of Maintenance" <no-reply@dot.ca.gov>
Add sender to Contacts To:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Situation Acknowledged. Unable to estimate time needed. | |
Additional Message: | Your request is scheduled for repair within the next 30 days. This ticket will now be closed. |
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MSR Ticket Number: | 513443 |
Commit/No Commit: | commit |
Date Submitted: | 2011-02-26 15:28:11 |
California County: | San Diego |
State Highway Route: | 5 |
Nearest Town or City: | Carlsbad |
Nearest Cross Street: | Poinsettia Lane/Aviara Parkway |
Mode of Transportation: | Car |
Direction of Travel: | Northbound |
Time Situation Noticed: | 7 pm - 8 pm |
Type of Situation: | Traffic Lighting |
Nature of Situation: | Street light is out on northbound I-5 at very furthest point where Poinsettia Lane on-ramp meets the #4 lane of I-5. I visually saw this light out, and was advised there was another light that is intermittent but did not personally view it. |
Geographic Location of Situation: | Reference would be directly across the freeway from south building of the LaQuinta Inn on the Northbound side of I-5. |
Your Email Address: | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
It is now 10 days following the initial request and the light remains dark. Obviously the folks at the CalTrans yard about a half mile from the site have much more to do. Ticket "closed." What the hell is that? So they don't have to look at it or what?
This is what you have to expect for your tax dollars, and the behemoth ribbon of concrete these brilliant people want to foist on north county! When they can't even change a light bulb in a reasonable amount of time, what would ever make any of us believe they can do anything to alleviate traffic, other than pour miles of congestion like a bad sinus.
Maybe Sen. Joel Anderson, R-El Cajon isn't entirely off-base with his idea to dump CalTrans. Maybe not turn it over to the cities, but perhaps hire private contractors with performance standards that need to be met and surpassed. Get these people off their shovels and on to what they get paid to do.
UPDATE: On March 14, at approximately 10:00 AM, 17 days after the initial service request, these lights were replaced or repaired, whichever was applicable. Just imagine this agency in charge of your municipal street lighting. Worse, your electric power, or gas, or water? You'd be sitting in the dark, cold and thirsty! Is it a shortage of money? Not when they spend all the money dreaming ways to lay new concrete! It isn't money that's needed. Maybe more work and less management?
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