We were so excited to know that a new high school was being built down the way from our home — Kimball High School. Now it’s expected that if my daughter wants to walk to school, she will have to walk 3 miles instead of the ¾-mile walk she would have normally taken through the Redbridge community and up Lammers Road.
The city of Tracy has just repaved Schulte Road to Lammers Road, but it couldn’t put in a sidewalk for the kids to walk to school? This was an unexpected situation for us, and now we have to figure out how our daughter will get to school without her leaving the house before daylight in the winter. We were very upset about it, but figured that the city would have the sidewalk in soon.
Today, we had yet another unexpected situation arise. Our “friendly” neighbors in Redbridge locked up their neighborhood right before school started. There has always been a gate next to Kelly School to prevent cars from going through the community, but pedestrians could still walk through.
But now they put up a gate, and only Redbridge homeowners can go through the gate with a card-key. Is it a coincidence that they put the gate in a few days before school started, or are they afraid of teens walking through their neighborhood?
Honestly, what makes them better than the rest of us in Tracy? I’m very disappointed in both groups, the city of Tracy who knew this school was being built without a sidewalk for the kids to walk on, and the Redbridge homeowners association that locked our kids out.
The Tracy Unified School District (TUSD) has paid the cost of construction for the frontage improvements of Kimball High School for the widening of Lammers Road to the City, along with other impact fees. In addition, TUSD has executed an Offsite Improvement Agreement with the City for the construction of temporary improvements on Lammers Road to provide functional access to the school site.
In order to provide functional access to Kimball High School prior to its opening, the Developer completed the school’s frontage improvements ahead of the SIA requirements and also completed temporary improvements on Lammers Road as discussed above.
The Gateway project ends at or about the southern boundry of the high school. As long as the developer is not given an extension the widining should be complete on or about May, 2010.
It is ashame that the city will not step up to the plate and force completion of Shulte Rd to Lammers Rd. Once again the true impact of traffic from Safeway, O/I Glass, High School and all the commuters is not looked at for the accumlative effect.
There is a sidewalk from Kimball North to Eleventh Street (at the 11th & Lammers intersection).
Additionally there is a sidewalk on Eleventh St all the way into town.
If it was a "true" gated community there would be a gate and security at the front with a call system for homeowners. Well it isnt, so there.
If that is what you were promised when you purchased there and you have paid for that, then I wouold be mad too. I would contact your builder or homeowners. But unitl there is a official gate and no trespassing signs, it is fair game.
Ps Could have bought there, not jealous. Also other areas pay homeowners to keep there areas nice and kids walk all through all the time. All kids arent bad. But all the pies down the road are delicious, Yogi! :)
Take a drive down Lammers past Kimball and turn right on Shulte. There is a sign there that says bike path.
Lance Armstrong went out there from Valpico when they rolled through on the Amgen.
No, it's not a bike lane. It's a County bike path. And the sign located there on Shulte clearly deliniates it as such.
Now it's sorta after th fact an it's gonna cost ya more big bucks, that ain't readily available ta fix it.
Sort of like closin the barn door after th cow left an yer all worried about reinin her in.
A scant few raised this issue durin th design phase but it fell on deaf ears primarily because th rest of th general population apparently had other things ta occupy thair time.
You sort of deserve th government ya elect an when ya put it on auto pilot this is th sort of thing that slips through th cracks.
But no matter, that's th status quo here and, with the schools in relation ta th city, somethin that's been happenin fer a long long time.
Think I'm just an ole man with steam ta let off?
Well check er out dudes and dudetts, ya like th traffic problems around our two other High Schools an Middle Schooles like Montevista, Earle Williams an Poet Christian? With some astute traffic engineerin ta solve th problem our school district an city traffic engineers seem ta be waitin fer some kid to get splattered on th road way before they take action.
An while they say they care, all ya got to do is look at th people droppin off thair kids or pickin em up ta really see whair th real problem is.
It's always th other guy ain't it?
Many people don't realize it but when it comes to County maintained roads that's what a bike path looks like.
Dirt and gravel on either side of the road. That's the same way they do it in France and other countries.
People are supposed to share the road. But I wouldn't want my children riding bicycles on a county maintained road.
That's just me.
Old Schulte is dangerous..Lammers is dangerous. Which way should they walk? No way until they build a sidewalk and bike path.
For those who live on the Old Schulte side of Madisin Park etc. Wow that is a long way to walk down Corral Hollow, down 11th to Lammers and in on that unsafe road with no sidewalk. I guess even if Redbridge lets them walk through, which they won't, they have to walk 7/10ths of a mile to Kimball down Lammers with no sidewalk.
Still, I dont like some of the snobbish attitude when it comes to the safety of the kids. For some kids who live right close to the gate, it is still a better option. Yes a call for compromise til it gets fixed.
CN