Rockwood

4 hours ago, dunenigma said:

Not in my neighborhood. Take the wa$te of a sweeper out of most residential areas and put them where there needed then. But that would take efficiency or a brain. 

Yeah. That being said, I live on a private road. The gravel buildup from the road wearing is annoying. Lots of dust.

I have Magnaflow on my Jeep.  Sounds good, but have always hated Flowmaster sound, so take it for what its worth...

2 hours ago, dunenigma said:

The street sweepers are a joke and unnecessary in most residential neighborhoods. Wtf ? they ( the city )street sweep my neighborhood once a month and don't even do a chit crap job . The beach areas I can see it ,  but even then, do they really make a difference ?. Maybe in the beach area where puke and vomit prevail like the city council and their decisions and our tax $.

Better than nothing. The turn lanes, center dividers and shoulders on most roads are completely covered in broken gravel and trash. 

On 4/25/2024 at 6:16 PM, Bobalos said:

I saw @Rockwood on the way home today.  Bitchen ride.... 

I had lost a bead out in the dunes, used the brake cleaner trick to reset them, then a decent amount of sta-flo to keep it from leaking since there was sand in the bead.  This was the result, LOL.

23 minutes ago, Adam G said:

Oh you’re the 23103 call I used to get about a blue ford mustang on Jamul Dr 😆

Lol, amusingly there’s another blue mustang (5th gen) that drives like an ass around here. I keep it civil around people and houses…

Sheriff or CHP?

BTW: if there is any backup on the 125 visible from the 8, I just don't exit.  8 to Chase or 2nd St and take surface streets. Luckily, that means I get to drive up one of my favorite roads in a car made for it.

12 hours ago, Chingon619 said:

Bro same here for about just as long, too. Every time I'm coming from that direction and everyone is trying to exit on Spring Street I always think to myself that I would go absolute bat sheet crazy if I had to exit there just to go 94E and every time I say "how hard is it to just put a F'ING bridge over to 94E?" It would eliminate a lot of backing up traffic over the 8 to 125S. Sheeeesh. I feel your pain brody. If that's you in that line of people, how are you still sane?

You've seen my posts here...  Are you sure I'm still sane?

1 hour ago, Sand Shark said:

The funding went to that high speed rail to nowhere or is part of the missing money for the homeless that no one seems to know where it went.   Where is all that money from the stupid gas tax increase that is supposed to fund roadwork?    

The stole it to pay for the street sweepers that never get deployed...

Sadly, that money was stolen to put in a $20M football field at an elementary school.  Please don't pay attention to the senator's husband winning the contract, she recused herself from contract selection.

27 minutes ago, Kat-A-Tonic said:

In the olden days, the media would have had a field day with this.  Now crickets.  Eff em all.

Spoon-fed version of this has been sent.  We'll see if anything happens with it.  I'm farking tired of the waste.

28 minutes ago, Crusty said:

For folks in Los Angeles, think of the 710 connection from Monterey Park to Pasadena 210...haha...thats been 30 plus years...

 

My entire life (44 years next month) I've had to deal with this to go EB 94 (who knows when it started).  For a good half of it, I've had to do the same to go from WB 94 to NB 125, except that required exiting and executing 3 turns at traffic lights to accomplish.  Whoever designed that needs to be drug into the street and shot.

48 minutes ago, Meter Tech said:

Sacramento has been arguing over building a much-needed reservoir for something like 30-50 years.... environmentalist have unlimited legal funding in this State and why shiat like this ^^^^ goes on.... its mindless BS!!  

One fun snippet:

"The estimated total cost of Phases 1 and 2 are approximately $240 million each."

Okay.  

"Caltrans is prioritizing the $85M needed to fully fund Phase 1 Construction..."

Wait, what?!!! $240M for the whole job, of which a THIRD is committed to actually building 2 focking lanes?!?!?  Jesus fock.

9 hours ago, 1slomofo said:

operational by 2028....no effing waaaaaay!

We've lost the ability to do anything quickly unless private corporations are heavily incentivized to get it done.  For example:

Once upon a time (2018 ish), I noticed Caltrans started surveying and buying properties working on a project that I was excited about: finally making a connector to go from 125S to 94E without exiting at Spring St and dealing with traffic lights/surface streets.  Googling the project, I found this:

https://www.cityoflamesa.us/DocumentCenter/View/6795/125S---94E-Fact-Sheet?bidId=

Of special note:

Sweet.  They bought the properties, started bringing in aggregate and a concrete plant, so surely the environmental and funding parts were completed right?  Riiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhht....?

After a little bit, I saw drill rigs and got excited.  It's happening!  

Then, nothing.  Okay, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?  Google:

https://www.cityoflamesa.us/DocumentCenter/View/16806/CalTrans-Presentation?bidId=

Huh.  Okay, they're delayed.  It's gov't.  These things happen.

Driving by over the weekend, wife's driving through there, I'm passenger (rare occurrence).  See the idle concrete plant, aggregate, etc, just gathering dust and wonder...

Where in the fawk is my connector?!?!? 

Google:

https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-11/current-projects/sr-94-125-interchange-project

What in the actual fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck....?

Waaaaait, WHAT?!?!

This project is STILL IN MOTHERFONKING environmental, and that won't be completed until Summer 2025?  11 years to complete environmental!??!?! And this project is now split into 2 phases that will individually cost as much as the original project was estimated to cost?  How much money have we wasted on that idle plant hanging out?  How much money have we wasted in approvals labor? 

This state will crumble into the ground before it will ever finish anything these days.  This is but one of thousands of projects that are stuck in the same boat. FAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!

Ahem.  Carry on.

This one at least sorta makes sense. 

That ride back would suuuuuuuuck though. Hangover, train operator ON/OFF throttle, swaying on the desert floor…

Happy birthday Jeff, you old bastage!

2 minutes ago, Chingon619 said:

What am I, chopped liver? 😝 would've been cool. Next time. 

Lol, you too. I just saw my kids in one of his photos

Damn, everyone beat me to it. Great meeting everyone there. Shop looks great Alex. 

@Poule43 didn’t notice you there, but apparently we were there at the same time. Next one brother.

I’ll be there

Worked for Northrop engineering some of the information systems on that bird. Tough bastards doing the hard work in theatre. 

Working on one in theatre, got onboard and was greeted by a bunch of guys cuffed to the jumpseats with hoods on. Final destination: GTMO.

4 hours ago, Sand Shark said:

Just got a shipment of more tires for a race coming up next month.  It is never ending.  LOL!!!

On 4/15/2024 at 12:13 PM, Crusty said:

Zero days since my last trip Feb. 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

...but after over 300 Ice Hockey games all across the US later, we're coming back.

Bro, do you even Glamis?

3 hours ago, Esco said:

I have

How’d they know what your typical 2024 El Cajon “resident” would look like…?

53 minutes ago, Sand Shark said:

Neither!   Hobbywing or Reedy 🤣🤣🤣

Hey dipshit, I meant the 80s/90s