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Started by john , Jun 20 2008 08:19 PM

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Poll: Name the New Bridge (90 member(s) have cast votes)

What theme would you name the bridge after?

  1. Johnny Cash (49 votes [54.44%])

    Percentage of vote: 54.44%

  2. Folsom Dam (20 votes [22.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 22.22%

  3. Folsom Lake (14 votes [15.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.56%

  4. Granite City (7 votes [7.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.78%

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#331 MSgt

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 01:12 PM

QUOTE(supermom @ Jun 30 2008, 02:06 PM) View Post
...The sign ( not a street sign) at the new road leading to the bridge says "Folsom Bridge"

ohh the new, new bridge

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 01:15 PM

QUOTE(MSgt @ Jun 30 2008, 02:12 PM) View Post
ohh the new, new bridge

How big is the sign? What are is the dimensions of the text/color?

On an unrelated note; Anyone know where to buy a Johnny Cash Bridge street sign?
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Posted 30 June 2008 - 01:24 PM

QUOTE(mylo @ Jun 30 2008, 02:15 PM) View Post
How big is the sign? What are is the dimensions of the text/color?

On an unrelated note; Anyone know where to buy a Johnny Cash Bridge street sign?



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Posted 30 June 2008 - 06:51 PM

QUOTE(supermom @ Jun 30 2008, 02:06 PM) View Post
Hmm--error correction!!!

I went over there yesterday. The street sign at Folsom Dam road is still in its original place.

The sign ( not a street sign) at the new road leading to the bridge says "Folsom Bridge"

Thanks for correcting.

BTW, emails to the city council, the newspapers, and Dan Lundgren have been sent.
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 08:54 AM

In case you haven't been on Natoma Street @ Briggs Ranch lately, you'll be surprised to find yourself at a new intersection (Natoma Street and Natoma Street???). You'll need to make a turn to continue on Natoma Street.

They've opened up the new sections of roadway to divert future bridge traffic away from the Briggs Ranch entrance. This must have happened some time yesterday. For now, it looks like that entrance to Briggs Ranch is inaccessible.

This will surely confuse your GPS units smile.gif

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Posted 01 July 2008 - 09:19 AM

QUOTE(mando @ Jul 1 2008, 09:54 AM) View Post
In case you haven't been on Natoma Street @ Briggs Ranch lately, you'll be surprised to find yourself at a new intersection (Natoma Street and Natoma Street???). You'll need to make a turn to continue on Natoma Street.

They've opened up the new sections of roadway to divert future bridge traffic away from the Briggs Ranch entrance. This must have happened some time yesterday. For now, it looks like that entrance to Briggs Ranch is inaccessible.

This will surely confuse your GPS units smile.gif

Hmm, I'll have to go check that out as it's in my neighborhood.
Yep, it will mess with GPS units. The new Benicia bridge is open now, I drove over a couple of weekends ago and my GPS unit showed me flying out over the bay, no bridge underneath me, telling me to proceed to the route as indicated.

Kinda funny.
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 09:37 AM

QUOTE(Bill Z @ Jul 1 2008, 10:19 AM) View Post
Yep, it will mess with GPS units. The new Benicia bridge is open now, I drove over a couple of weekends ago and my GPS unit showed me flying out over the bay, no bridge underneath me, telling me to proceed to the route as indicated.

That bridge is a Godsend! Flying through Fastrak I can get home from SF an hour faster than going up 80!
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 10:00 AM

OK....$20 bucks to close this....I give-in....
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 10:05 AM


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Posted 01 July 2008 - 10:14 AM

Here's a cool site:

http://www.kiewit.co...ro_4407017.html


Talks a bit about the bridge being built; by the company contracted to build it.

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Posted 01 July 2008 - 10:27 AM

QUOTE(mylo @ Jul 1 2008, 10:37 AM) View Post
That bridge is a Godsend! Flying through Fastrak I can get home from SF an hour faster than going up 80!

I agree, coming back from the bay area, the huge back up on I-680 into Concord is no more.

I'm also lookig forward to the completion of the widening of I-205 by Tracy into 3 lanes each direction.
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 10:34 AM

QUOTE(ChipShot @ Jul 1 2008, 11:00 AM) View Post
OK....$20 bucks to close this....I give-in....


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Posted 01 July 2008 - 11:04 AM

I've think we've gotten away from what this thread is about - the inexplicably stupid move by the city council (save for Kerri) to not only give the bridge the least imaginative name possible but also a name that is geographically incorrect.

These are the people Folsomites keep electing to office. Why!?

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Posted 01 July 2008 - 11:22 AM

QUOTE(c_vanderveen @ Jul 1 2008, 12:04 PM) View Post
These are the people Folsomites keep electing to office. Why!?

I don't know.

But it would be amusing if a seemingly dopey issue such as a bridge-naming came back to bite 'em in the rear in the next election.

I suppose that's possible.
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Posted 01 July 2008 - 11:53 AM

People need GPS to navigate around Folsom????? What the @#%$#@?
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