The weekend is here and so is the Red Phone, back once again to
let you know what on residents’ mind. Got a comment or question for
the Red Phone? Good, ring up the Crimson Crusader,
always listening, always online, always at 635-9219.
The weekend is here and so is the Red Phone, back once again to let you know what on residents’ mind. Got a comment or question for the Red Phone? Good, ring up the Crimson Crusader,
always listening, always online, always at 635-9219.
What a bunch of wimps
Why such a big deal over the bumpy tracks on 25, a caller asks.
“What’s up with people who drive SUVs on Highway 25 and slow down at the bumpy railroad tracks? I’ve got a little car, and I don’t slow down for the tracks. The people who drive these big SUVs – they’re supposed to be burly – but they’re really just wusses. I would like them to stop holding up traffic on 25.”
Was that a rhetorical question?
Why all the water
Santa Ana Road and San Felipe Road is still flooded by water, another caller reports
“I’m calling about the lake at the corner of Santa Ana and San Benito (San Felipe). There’s a pool of water there and now the concrete is starting to degrade. Where is that water coming from and what are they going to do it about.”
Sometimes the Red Phone feels like it’s going in circles. The Santa Ana “sewer” first
raised its soggy head from a Red Phone caller in June who reported seeing the puddle almost every day. The Red Phone learned from the city water division that they believed the water was draining from a nearby milk ranch’s irrigation system into the roadway. They said they would look it into. Obviously, this hasn’t happened if the problem still exists.
Red Phone called the city’s Public Works department at 3pm Friday to find out what efforts had been made, but was told by a secretary the only people who could answer its question, Clay Lee and Ray Rojas, were
out for the weekend. She suggested calling city manager Clint Quilter, which Red Phone did, but he was unavailable. Fear not faithful readers, Red Phone has put this issue on hold and will publish an answer after it cuts through red tape. Meanwhile, put some heat on the city yourself by calling the Public Works department at 636-4370 and ask them to fix the problem.
Cut the construction
The construction in downtown Hollister can’t end soon enough, a caller
said.
“Let me be the first one on record to say that I’m so glad the construction in downtown Hollister appears to finally be coming to an end. It was an absolute nightmare for at least a solid two months while they had sidewalks on both sides of the street destroyed. I walk to work and its obvious whoever planned this project doesn’t spend much time walking in Hollister or care about the people who do. I either had to walk through the construction area and get dirty looks from the workers or cross San Benito Street – where there are no crosswalks – at least two or three times every day or walk in the street where cars whizzed by just a few feet from me. Yeah, the areas that are done look a lot better, but more than anything I’m just glad it’s finally almost over. What a disaster!”
