| Subject: | Re: road conditions |
| Date: | 07/31/2003 03:00 AM |
| From: | Marc San Soucie |
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Here is what I received from Washington County after my email to them a week ago. I'll give Wash Co. credit for doing better than they used to do. This is fairly aggressive post-sealing action. But the old bugbear of "functional classifcation" and "built to standards" is used quite frequently to wave off responsibility for pro-active consideration of impact to bicycles and pedestrians. "Later", it means. Procedures have improved a fair bit, fundamental policy only slightly. Keep your elected officials educated about your concerns. It does pay off, gradually. Marc Thank you for your email about chip sealing West Union Road. I appreciate your concerns about this road. While West Union Road is shown on the County Bicycle System Map, it is not built to the standards required to be a bicycle-friendly road. Until it is built to those standards, we must maintain it in an acceptable condition using appropriate methods for roads of its functional classification. Chip sealing is a proven, cost-effective preventive maintenance surface treatment that helps to extend public resources County-wide. In the professional judgment of our road maintenance management team, chip seal is the appropriate treatment for this road at this time. The chip seal placed on West Union yesterday is not the end of this maintenance treatment. The road will be swept the day after the application. Unlike some chip seals the County did in the past, the road will then be swept again a few days later and fog sealed, a process which will reduce loose aggregate and create a smoother surface than would otherwise result from just the chip seal alone. Finally the road will be restriped in approximately the same locations as before. I would ask you to please wait until the entire maintenance treatment process has been completed to see how this road will turn out. Your comments have been shared with the road maintenance management team. We appreciate your input and will continue to look for opportunities to improve the maintenance of Washington County's roads for bicycles as well as other traffic. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me. Victoria Saager Washington County Department of Land Use & Transportation Operations & Maintenance Division Management Analyst II - Public Information Officer 1400 SW Walnut St, MS 51 Hillsboro, OR 97123-5625 phone: 503-846-7616 fax: 503-846-7620 email: victoria-@co.washington.or.us website: http://www.co.washington.or.us ----- Original Message ----- From: <Steve-@clark.wa.gov> To: <ob-@topica.com> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:01 PM Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] road conditions Just as an aside. They recently did this to one of my favorite road in Clackamas county and I was very unhappy about it. I then went on a ride that traversed this road again a couple of weeks later and they had finished it off by rolling it out and sealing it, which made the road rideable again and almost pleasant. I think the graveling may be the first step in redoing the road without actually repaving it. There is hope even if they mess it up temporarily. -----Original Message----- From: Troy Tucker [mailto:Bike-@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:50 PM To: Edwardw-@aol.com; ob-@topica.com Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] road conditions Also the West side of Germantown road has been oil and graveled, could be a rough ride going down the hill. T To respond to the whole group send to ob-@topica.com. To respond to the list manager send to ob-@teleport.com To unsubscribe send to obra-uns-@topica.com To respond to the whole group send to ob-@topica.com. To respond to the list manager send to ob-@teleport.com To unsubscribe send to obra-uns-@topica.com |
