Comments on: Urban priorities freezing out Willits bypass funds?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:02:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:56:00 +0000

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By: Hayduke

Hayduke — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:52:00 +0000

I am not sure losing the Willits Bypass (which at least for now we did) makes all that much difference in travel time and it was going to make what little downtown there is there dry up and blow away. But it is sure annoying to get pushed around by power politics. Wonder what is next?

By: Eric V. Kirk

Eric V. Kirk — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:33:00 +0000

Fret about the modern world? Can you say "straw man?"

I do have to get to the Bay Area to help out my elderly parents. I still say the 5 minutes I would save with the bypass is a lower priority than several dozen Bay Area problems. Fix Santa Rosa. That will save you and your elderly parents much more time. Probably San Rafael as well.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:47:00 +0000

I don’t see this as an issue of minor inconvenience for tourists. It is us, the long-time residents of the North Coast, who are most inconvenienced by having to drive through places like Eureka and Willits to get to the Bay Area to help out elderly parents or participate in professional development or conferences. If bypassing Willits makes you fret about the modern world, then I guess you can always move to Zenia or Hayfork or some place like that.

By: Eric V. Kirk

Eric V. Kirk — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:26:00 +0000

Mendocino County has already spent nearly $32 million on this project. It is ready to go. There is no sense in throwing that money away and pushing costs out to an uncertain future.

Well, that puts a different light on it for me. Still, but for the money having been spent on the project, I'd have no problem giving other areas priority.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:20:00 +0000

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/02/share_the_road.html

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:54:00 +0000

I used to get Cloverdale and Willits mixed up back when I used to drive down there before the bypass.

I went thru Cloverdale for the first time since then a few months ago and saw no resemblence at all. The place looked dead to me. Not at all what I remembered.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:31:00 +0000

Many years ago,(1978), before the Cloverdale bypass was constructed, getting through that town was just as bad as Willits is now.
On the big weekends, Memorial Day and 4th of July, the Cloverdale FD used to set up their fire engines with a large sheet right by the main stoplight in town in both directions on 101.
The stoplight would not turn green until ALL cars in the general vicinity of the sheets tossed $$$ into those sheets.
Traffic was backed up for quite a ways and it was obvious that someone connected with the CFD had a traffic light switcher in their possession, just for the occasion.
Nifty fundraiser,no?

I often wonder, passing by Cloverdale on the bypass now, what the CFD is doing for a fundraiser these days.

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:14:00 +0000

I actually enjoy driving through Willits but I would like the option of a bypass. I’d probably stop by Willits anyway as that’s where I gas up on the way north and often eat at their Taco Bell.