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Published on 04/07/1999 All articles from this issue

Citizens nominate potholes for street repair

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By Joanne Griffith Domingue / Town Crier Staff Writer

When the Town Crier learned about the $1.2 million the city will be receiving for extra street repairs, we asked readers to share their candidates for street repair.

Thanks to Santa Clara County Measure B funds, Los Altos will be receiving $589,000 in each of the next two years for makeovers of its worst streets.

And folks are coming forward with their favorite potholes and cracked streets.

Edie Drobny not only nominated her street, Hawthorne Avenue, but she passed a petition that 12 of her neighbors also signed and they also agree their street needs work.

"As a seven-year resident of the 600 block of Hawthorne, I have seen almost every street adjacent to ours repaved at least once and some even twice," Drobny said.

"Perhaps being a dead-end street has contributed to being overlooked for repair."

She enclosed pictures of the Hawthorne potholes showing how water stands in them following rain storms.

Balan Srinivasan nominated Echo Drive, the segment between Covington Road And Fremont Avenue.

"While I can relate to maintaining a 'semi-rural atmosphere' in the city, I just cannot relate to the innumerable potholes on the street with standing water due to the rains and actually chunks of asphalt that have separated from the pavement and are strewn along the sides."

He'd like to see gutters put in along his street.

A reader named Gloria nominated "a depression of some kind in the middle of the intersection as you're traveling on El Monte (Avenue) going toward (Highway) 280."

Another suggestions came from a caller who nominates the west side of Foothill Expressway between Main Street and Homestead Road.

"That side of Foothill is very, very rough," she said.

Actually, Foothill Expressway is a county road. But the good news is that the county also is receiving Measure B funds for road work that includes upgrading Foothill Expressway, from Palo Alto to Sunnyvale, this summer.

Anyone else out there with a pothole or rutted street to nominate, send your suggestions to the Town Crier Pothole Patrol. We will be forwarding the list to the city.