Created by June Morrall
I got up this morning, opened the front door and was transported into a fairy tale book, the kind we used to read when we were kids. The sky was baby blue with soft white streaks, the sun felt warm on my skin and the shadows were in the right places.
Good question!
I’ve been hesitant to post this email but I think you should see it:
“Dear June:
Do you want the same people who can’t fix Devil’s Slide building the tunnel?
Pete from Princeton (by-the-Sea)
P.S. Enjoyed your story about Princeton (by-the-Sea). I was living in Princeton when it happened. The woman who took over the Princeton Inn after the brothers left was a realtor. Her name was Bev and she lived in Moss Beach.”
I’ve received some new Devil’s Slide emails–an especially interesting one from “Montara Bob”. I’ll post them later today.
(Photo: Big trucks significantly slow traffic on Hwy 92 during commute hours.)
The Devilâs Slide âcommute disasterâ? has been added to the Metropolitan Transportation Commissionâs (MTC)âs 511 Driving Times service (found online at. http://www.511.org).
Thanks to Commissioner Sue Lempert, MTC Commissioner, for focussing on the forlorn Coastside commuter’s plight. Sue Lempert is also the mother of Ted Lempert, President of Children Now, an advocacy group based in Oakland, and, who, when Ted was an assemblyman introduced the Devilâs Slide tunnel legislation.
Visit http://www.511.org and youâll find a Bay Area map– click on our neck of the woods, and youâll be able to see if thereâs congestion and whereâand you can actually view traffic on Highway 1/92 via a remote cameraâwhich is great if youâre at home but not so great if youâre on Highway 1 or 92 and an accident occurs. Itâs especially dangerous if youâre locked in on the hill.
Commisioner Lempert, thank you very much–but how about signs on highways 1 and 92? Up-to-the-minute signs? Iâve seen these signs on 92, east of 280.
Not everybody carries a computer in the car, or a mobile phone. If thereâs an accident that will cause a delay it would be helpful for the commuter to have that information so that he/she can make the decision to wait for the accident to be cleared up or go back home where they can be productive.
BELOW: TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL
To reach Ted Lempert at Children Now, here’s the info:
Children Now
Main Office
1212 Broadway, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: 510-763-2444
Fax: 510-763-1974
Sacramento Office
1127 Eleventh Street, Suite 452
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-443-1410
Fax: 916-443-1204
Email: [email protected]
Here’s how to contact Commissioner Sue Lempert
SUE LEMPERT
Representing Cities of San Mateo County
Former Mayor and Councilmember, City of San Mateo
365 Virginia Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94402
Phone: 650/342-9667
[email protected]
The messages remind folks that there’s going to be a “town photo”, giving the time and place.On Stage Road. I love it!
A few posts back I shared with you what I called “the two sides of Fayden” Holmboe (literally the two sides–left and right, taken on the same day in my El Granada backyard 30 years ago)
“I sent my son those two pictures you sent me, he had his wife take this one
He’s going to be 25 this June so that puts us just about at the exact age.
Zack is a science teacher in a junior high school in North west
Oregon and is starting a chapter with his class on heredity. He
said this is going to be one of his examples!
Thought you’d enjoy seeing how your “historical photo of me” was built upon!
Fayden lives in Half Moon Bay and works at Stanford (Applied Physics).
The Coastside had always been a magnet for visual artists. Photographer and painter, artist Ralph Putzker, born in San Francisco, taught at San Francisco State, taking the Devil’s Slide route to work. When I met him, he lived south of Half Moon Bay in an old farmhouse on the Higgins-Purissima Rd. I took this photo of him in the late 1970s.
Yeah, Ralph’s dog doesn’t seem to be cooperating!
The women marching are wearing long skirts and an expert tells me the photo must be from circa WWI.
