Mission Viejo potholes

Letter: Road Rain Ruins Repairs

November 29, 2010

Even a heavy rainstorm would cause only minor seepage into the countless cracks on Mission Viejo’s residential streets because mostly all of the water would run down into the gutter from the crown along the center of streets. Right? Wrong. A good deal of the water runs laterally into the cracks. Keep that in mind [...]

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Letter: Bandaid On Cancer

August 18, 2010

I live on Bande Circle which has major street cracks. One crack was half ground down today. Meaning the contractor ground around the perimenter of the Circle, it being 6 homes wide, at a constant 4 foot wide taper from zero to about an inch deep where the street meets the concrete curb. This is [...]

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Letter: Street Ratings Bogus?

August 11, 2010

If you were to drive down Camden, a collector street in southeast Mission Viejo, you might think you were driving into urban New Jersey. Or Los Angeles, Or Santa Ana. Certainly not in the planned community of Mission Viejo. Camden street is 1/4 mile long between Felipe Rd. and Bridgeton, serving residents of the Park [...]

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Nichols Report Underscores Pavement Concern

July 29, 2010

   Nichols Consulting Engineers has performed the most recent four MV pavement analyses. The last was in 2008. The firm notes the current problem in its 2010 proposal: In the case of Mission Viejo, the gas tax has traditionally been used to fund the resurfacing program, but last year, this was transferred to other projects, resulting in only one [...]

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Video Letter: Grassy Street

July 26, 2010

Bill Aitken

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Letter: City’s Irrigation Damages Streets

June 5, 2010

   The City of Mission Viejo has recently been repairing asphalt streets, several of which are on the list of about 200 distressed streets reported by activists in the Mission Viejo Dispatch. Thanks to the citizen watchdogs.    Coming soon is an asphalt overlay on La Paz and Marguerite Pkwy. Both streets have heavy damage, [...]

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Letter: Whitewashing The Blacktop

May 9, 2010

The City of Mission Viejo received an award from North American financial officers in part for lacing its 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report with propaganda statements. Inclusion of summary text by City Hall was specifically cited by representatives of the Government Finance Officers Assn. of the United States and Canada Monday night at the City [...]

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Letter: Smokey & the Bandit Street Smarts

April 5, 2010

Enough already. Allan Pilger and his buddies in Mission Viejo once again are picking on those folks in City Hall who are doing their best to make us feel good and have a lot of fun. We are Smokey and the Bandit, the fun-loving dogs in Allan’s household, who are fed up with the rants [...]

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Letter: Bad Roads To Lavish Parking Lots

March 29, 2010

I know of no other city where the residents have to go out and canvas cracks! Maintenance schedules should be adhered to so that the cost isn’t excessive compared to 5-year maintenance costs. Pleassssse!! Let’s get real here. The out-of-towners won’t have any roads to drive on to the lavish parking lots! Basics first, then [...]

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Letter: Street Photos Show Need For Shorter Repaving Cycle

March 14, 2010

   Citizens of Mission Viejo should be outraged. City streets, particularly those awaiting resurfacing for more than five years, are in a major state of disrepair, with deep cracks and wide potholes soaking up the heavy winter rains to get wider and deeper.    Worst of all, it is the citizens’ fault because the City [...]

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