QUESTION – Every day, I see these news ladies with different outfits. Do they supply their own? If they don’t, who supplies it or do they get them donated?
ANSWER – We contacted our partner at KMGH Channel 7NEWS. The simple answer at that station is yes, the news anchors choose and wear their own clothes.
Executive Producer Carl Bilek reported that the station does have a stylist/wardrobe consultant who reviews with them which colors, patterns and textures translate the best for high-definition cameras. He said not all stations in area are the same. Some require consultants to shop with their anchors and reporters; some stations pay for wardrobes, and others have trade agreements with advertisers with the clothes later being returned or donated.
He said some stations have hair stylists and make-up artists. It all depends on their market size and station management, he said.
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QUESTION – I have noticed several places around town where the sidewalks and/or medians have heaved suddenly. I saw the first one about a month after the earthquake incident. There is a striking example of this in front of the mailboxes at E. 28th Street Lane and Apricot Avenue in Riverview Farms. It appears that there is also one starting at E. 28th Street Lane and Apple Avenue. We’ve also noticed a center median on U.S. 34 near Sunset Memorial Gardens as well as another sidewalk in a neighborhood on the west side of town. Has there been investigation in to this? What’s causing it? Will the city be repairing the damage?
ANSWER – Public Works Director Joel Hemesath said the heaving is caused by expansion from summer heat. Typically, he explains, there are spaces in the sidewalk that allow for the normal expansion, but sometimes those spaces will get filled with dirt and rocks over time, preventing the concrete from moving. Hemesath said the city will monitor and repair these areas where they can. But he also said that city code requires property owners to take care of the concrete on their properties. “The city would like to change this requirement and take over the concrete if we had funding. If a sales tax or some other substantial funding for road maintenance could be implemented, the city would like to take over the concrete responsibilities,” Hemesath said.
QUESTION – This may have been asked before, but with 9th Street being a one way street, and therefore no left turns from 11th Avenue going south, the time for this cycle should be used to allow traffic to go north on 11th Avenue, instead of sitting there through the unused cycle watching traffic going south and facing a red light.
ANSWER – Eric Bracke, city traffic engineer, said at the approach of 11th Avenue to 9th Street, there are three lanes – an exclusive left turn, a combination left/through, and a through lane. He said the those three in combination require that the phases be split and run separately. Running the intersection in this manner is safer and more efficient, he said.
QUESTION – In a recent Action Line, I read that the city does not consider speed bumps to be effective. This disappoints me, and I’m sure it will disappoint some of my neighbors, too. We live on W. 29th St. across from Spradley Barr Ford, and the traffic speeds and noise on 29th street are becoming unbearable. I don’t have a calibrated eye to determine exact speeds, but I can tell when a vehicle is traveling closer to 50 than to 30. My neighbors and I were considering petitioning the city for a couple of speed bumps on the drag strip that is 29th Street.
ANSWER – City Traffic Engineer Eric Bracke provided more background: He stated that speed bumps were pretty popular in the 1990s and early 2000s, when cities were trying to address quality of life issues.
“What many found, and this includes Greeley, is that the speed bumps would slow down traffic at the location of the bump, but the speeds would actually increase to the original levels once the vehicle passed the bump,” Bracke wrote.
He said they are expensive to install. The city determined that expense wasn’t warranted for a device that didn’t solve the problem. He said the last speed bump installed in Greeley was close to five years ago and some, in fact, have even been removed since then.
He said the city did study speeds along 29th Street west of 47th Avenue several ago and didn’t find a speeding problem. Most traffic was traveling that stretch at 31 miles per hours westbound, and 30 mph eastbound, Bracke said. He said the city will collect new data to see if speeds have changed and see if additional enforcement is needed.
If you have a question, contact Sharon Dunn, sdunn@greeleytribune.com or call (970) 392-4439.
