Measure for Measure
Your Boulevardier walked down Redwood Road yesterday, passing under I-580 near BART on the new sidewalk. He noticed that this:
The railing for the new faux-stone retaining wall seems to have been manufactured dramatically off-the-mark. It's assumed that the railing was supposed to match the curve of the wall and fit neatly into the hole provided. No such luck. Somebody didn't measure.
One wonders where the SNAFU entered the project, and how it will be resolved. Certainly it would be easier to re-weld the railing to match the wall than to reconstruct the wall to match the rail.
Related: the westbound onramp to I-580 at Redwood Road is a strange thing. A turnout has been constructed partway up the ramp on the left. (Perhaps Your Boulevardier will snap a photo next time he's in the area to illustrate.) If anybody can figure out what that's for, please share.
Labels: CalTrans, construction, highways, questions, safety
posted by Your Boulevardier @ 9:32 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
The new wall looks nice. I wonder why they decided to put on up now.
On passing by today, Your Boulevardier noticed that the railing has been removed.
Shannon, to your question: the wall was built as part of widening Redwood Road under the freeway.
CV has needed an on ramp there since they built the freeway. It was always a mystery why the waited so long to remedy the situation.
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