Horseshoes at Sunken City

Someone recently mentioned in passing that there had been a secret horseshoe pitch at Sunken City until the Department of Recreation and Parks took it out... Anyone know anything about this?

Monday blurbs

Pacific Avenue will soon find itself lined with trees. According to a story that is no longer on the Breeze website, the corridor will be planted with more than 100 trees. While I'm generally in favor of more trees being planted around town, I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it. Maintenance can be costly, and given the sporadic nature of the city's cleanup crews, it's likely they might make a mess rather than provide aesthetically pleasing views.

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The Welcome Park is coming along nicely. At the last Central meeting, when Hahn's representatives announced it would be open by labor day, the person next to me muttered, "Where's everybody going to park?" That is a really good question. Now that Pedro's entrance is semi-complete, can we get CalTrans (which has jurisdiction of the street from the freeway to 9th Street) to fix Gaffey for pete's sake? Hahn recently stated that the city may take jurisdiction of the street, and that the bridge might even be removed!

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Random Lengths reporter Art Vinsel recently indicated that designs for the controversial fence/wall for Point Fermin and Sunken City are going to be displayed and comments will be taken at some upcoming public meetings. According to Frank O'Brien, they will be shown at a meeting of the Point Fermin Resident's Association in September (most likely Sept. 8 at Point Fermin Community Center) where comments will be taken. "The overall goal is to provide both safety and security and to do it in a way that's appropriate for the site," said O'Brien.

I think we all saw this coming

From the Breeze

New Safety Measures Urged for San Pedro Cliffs

I have total sympathy for those who have accidentally fallen off of any of our local cliffs over the years. That being said, there is no way to make the area more secure. All additional fencing will do is isolate anyone who's injured on the opposite side of it, and create another hazard. The worst injury I've ever witnessed involved someone climbing a common chain link fence, slipping and essentially impaling his shoulder on the thing - he hung there bleeding out, until the paramedics came. We live at the edge of a cliff - there's a certain amount of danger that comes with that.

Look at the comments on the Breeze article - it's obvious that fencing off Sunken City or Point Fermin won't prevent people from dying there. It will either move the problem to the next cliff over, or create new ones.