City Workers to Remove Broken Brick Crosswalks

Has anyone noticed that these particular brick crosswalks are not the only defective examples? At least several of the bulb out cross walks at other locations have been patched with asphalt as well for months.
Who knew that in addition to being simply wacky, bulb outs would also be a perpetual money pit? As my wife stated "The Romans figured out how to build with pavers over 2,500 years ago".

Who are these busy bodies that come up with these lame ideas? The Independent should inform us with names so that they can get appropriate feedback.

Lovely. Pay to have unnecessary, even if attractive, brick crosswalks installed. Then pay again to have them removed. Then pay again to have the crosswalks blacktopped. Welfare for overpaid city employees.

In the East they've used cobblestones for centuries - are we incompetent here? (Rhetorical question.)

How much will this disaster cost us taxpayers!?!?

Kelly cautioned against “throwing the baby out with the bath water,”

Your "baby" bulb-outs need to be thrown out.

Stop wasting money.

Or how about that cheap "O'bama reinvestment act" slurry that they sprayed all the way across APS, that now is puddled up into ripples and breaking bumps.

Who will answer for this incompetence?

Obviously, if the bricks in the street surface are cracking, the sidewalk design with the bulbous curb extension must be the cause of those fractured bricks.

Make the contractor pay for the fix. Oh, yeah this is a city job and as such was designed by incompetents, installed by incompetents and defended by incompetents- all of which are paid 3x what they'd get in any private sector job while getting to retire at 55 at 95% of their last years salary.

Disgusting doesnt even begin to describe the actions of our Govt in these matters.

Please name the idiots who are in charge of this dept and decision? We need names and accountability.

Sorry JA, but the crosswalks were not made of brick until we put in the bulbouts that they are associated with. Ergo, the old crosswalks seemed to be working just fine with zero additional cost.

Yes, everyone knows that the shape of the concrete curb is molecularly linked to the surface material in the sidewalk.

Ergo that.

There are no bulbouts where Castillo, Bath and Chapala intersect Carillo so it's kinda nutty to claim they are the cause. The real cause is the actual traffic, especially the big trucks that come through. But what do I know, I'm just an artist with his head in the clouds (and his eyes on the street on which he drives- which no one else here is required to do apparently!)

To those commentators who've never been down Carrillo Blvd., you really must see it. Not a bulb out in sight.

I walk there 4 days a week from Ledbetter down to Stearns and back.
Several bulb outs in sight. I never claimed the "let's call them new pedestrian crossing points made of the same materials as bulbouts but not at 4 way intersections" were THE CAUSE of the cracking. But the nefarious giant trucks you sight were not cracking the old, regular guy asphalt.
Let's just call it another amazing offshoot of the "law of unintended consequences". We had a perfectly good street, we tore it up for unproven reasons, and now the new design does not even stand up to traffic.
For those of you that think bulbouts ONLY exist at 4 way intersections(really pretty stupid of you KV)take a look at the 4 way intersection bulbout sidewalk at Anapamu and De la Vina. Same busted up bricks.

Basic issues here have to do with the Re-Development Agency and the other special pots of money that have been created over the years for pet projects of vested interests. The money set aside in these pots is not useable for other needy projects, such as sidewalks in neighborhoods outside the RDA, for example. We have painted ourselves into several corners by allowing these designated funding systems and denying our elected officials discretion on how to spend the money on better public needs. Look at the city's current rush to spend the RDA money before the state takes it--anyone think the spending will be for high priority public needs???

All in all, it's just a-/
-Nother brick in the brain.

Unbeleeeeeevably inept on all affronts.