Friday, August 28, 2015

Work Starting Before 6 Shakes our Home


They've parked this thing outside our home.  Shakes our entire home and it's been starting as early as 530 AM this week.  It looks like it could easily be anywhere else.  Why here?  Typical ODOT.  Who am I going to complain to? Their imaginary oversight?  Perhaps the PR firm they hired to spin everything related to the public and whom the news channels love.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Haul Trucks Driving Across Our Lawn

This morning I woke up to witness Bypass haul trucks driving across our lawn.  In the below picture you can see their very clear tire marks going straight into our lawn.  They've built a haul road, so they wouldn't need to drive by our house, but they continue to put our neighborhood at risk.  I went out and parked my car far at this spot to cut off their corner, and then they started using their haul road.  So frustrated with ODOT: these people that have forgot the old adage, do unto others as you would they do unto you.  That's what happens when you have NO oversight.



Thursday, May 7, 2015

Haul Trucks and Scrapers Blasting Across Residential Roads with no Traffic Control


The date is May 7th, 2015 and the above picture shows a haul truck in front of our house in the completely wrong lane on the other side of a mostly blind corner with no stop sign.  When he saw I was taking photos he made a last ditch effort to stop.

The last project I was on considered a truck with trailer 27 cubic yards of rock.  Consider how fast that can stop.  Now consider if someone didn't know and they were flying around that corner a little quick.  Say a high schooler, which I often see. I am scared of a disaster.

Also, on Fulquartz, just around the corner they have scrapers crossing Fulquartz at up to 20 MPH I'd guess, without stopping.  Just flying through.  It's like a scene you'd see in the farcical Russian youtube.

I've complained to ODOT.  Their Project Manager simply vehemently denies they are putting anyone at risk.  I've reached out to the Newberg Police, they say they are on it but I'm unsure how.

Fulquartz should be closed.  It's only a matter of time until a tourist is taking Fulquartz to bypass a jam on Highway 99 (which commonly happens) and meets a Scraper.  Or a high schooler flys around the corner in front of our house.

I've given up on anyone helping.  I simply write this to put in writing, on the web, that I warned ODOT and Newberg/Dundee. If disaster does happen I hope this is admissible in court.  

I even joined the Dundee Planning Committee to be involved at the city level and petition for safety but all I've found is the City is completely cowed to ODOT.

I can't find any oversight body for ODOT.  They do what they want, how they want.  And they don't seem to listen to input.

Sometimes I park my car in front of my house on the street side to force them into their lane and away from my side of the street (because they are almost driving on my lawn as it is... and sometimes they are, come see the tire tracks).  I'm allowed to park street side park for 72 hours per city code. This seems like a pathetic fix that only makes the construction people angry.  We need true enforcement, not construction workers angry with the neighbors.