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Why the heck was this not coordinated with all of the widening and lane work that just completed last year.
There was a vast improvement with that work in lane function and road surfacing. Then Caltrans and the Flood control folks come in and grind tracks in the lanes removing paint, destroy the center divider, cause dangeraous merges and huge congestion with this ptifully planned project. Who the heck owns this overall mess?
Years ago Alma was resurfaced and was fantastic. Then the utility gods came in and dug it up end to end destrying the quality of the road surface. Again, COORDINATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY are missing.
It seems that nobody bothers to READ anymore. The article cleary states that the project is limited to June through October each year due to seasonal restrictions (i.e. Winter), which by my count is 5, not 12 months, so obviously it will take longer than year round work. Also, the project is unrelated to the recently completed widening project. It was unfortunately only recently approved and funded. Too bad it couldn't be coordinated with the widening project, but that's just the way things work.
I assume that this is related to the flood control improvements which is tied to the golf course rebuild project. As I understand it, both projects were held up because the head of one of the Bay oversight agencies kept pulling a Columbo ("just one more question") every time the flood work plan was presented. This caused the City to lose its golf course contract and added 2 years to the project's timeline not to mention the havoc it wrecked on Brad Lozares' business at the golf course. If that is the case, it could not have been done with the road widening because of the actions of one bureaucrat. Welcome to Amerika!
"It seems that nobody bothers to READ anymore. The article cleary states that the project is limited to June through October each year due to seasonal restrictions (i.e. Winter), which by my count is 5, not 12 months, so obviously it will take longer than year round work."
It may not be related to the widening project; but this sure is a show of lack of project planning skills.
Why can't they work round the clock for the few months a year they are doing this. I drove by on Sunday when there was bad traffic and no work being done. Round the clock, seven days a week, and this should have been done in one year.
@Resident, I think 24/7 would require four times the number of construction workers. I don't know whether the current market is that elastic.
The project looks pretty well laid out to me.
The project is taking place at night. Why would you want them to close the road during the day?
Any major artery in California should = round the clock labor.
When the major freeway bridge in LA fell down after the earthquake they fixed it in 3 WEEKS! Isn't this a major freeway??? When the freeway interchange in Oakland was burned to crisp with the gasoline truck, they fixed it in 3 days. No one has lit a big enough fire under the appropriate body part yet on the correct person.
Here is a time lapse of a 57 story building being built in 19 days in China.
The two sections of interstate 10 that collapsed in the LA earthquake took 3 months to complete - but that's with no time to pre-plan. Three years is a joke.
The team of nine, including four Nepali guides, died in Nepal’s worst climbing disaster in two years when a storm hit the Himalayan peak they were scaling last week.
The Korean expedition was led by Kim Chang-ho, who set the record in 2013 for being the fastest to reach the summits of the world’s 14 highest mountains over 8,000 metres (26,250 feet) without using supplemental oxygen.
Weeping relatives were at Incheon airport to receive the coffins containing the bodies of the five climbers. Some mourners held portraits of their loved ones.
The team was trying to blaze a new route on the south face of Mount Gurja, Yonhap news agency said. The 7,193 metre-high peak (23,600 feet) is located roughly 216 km (135 miles) northwest of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu.
Their bodies were found on Saturday near their base camp about 3,500 metres (11,500 feet) above sea level.
The disaster appeared to be caused by a “sudden gust of wind,” Lee In-jung, chairman of the Union of Asian Alpine Associations, told reporters.
“I believe it might be the first time in the history of climbing the Himalayas that an accident was caused this way,” he said, adding it could deter people from climbing there.
Lee said the belongings of the climbers, including footage from a documentary filmmaker on the team, had not been fully recovered.
A joint funeral ceremony is expected to be held at Kim’s alma mater, the University of Seoul, on Friday, according to Yonhap.
"I like the bottom line" under President Donald Trump, said Alex Stevens. "Everything is improving for everybody."
BARNARDSVILLE – In the heart of Buncombe County's Trump country, people who supported Donald Trump in 2016 say they are still on his side one year into his presidency, even if some of them wish he would tone down his inflammatory remarks.
"The stock market's up. Unemployment's down. It's wonderful," said Jerry Jones, who credits Trump with the improving national economy. "You see 'help wanted' signs everywhere."
Polls say Trump's approval rating nationally is at historically low levels. The Real Clear Politics average of leading national polls said Monday that 39.7 percent of Americans polled approve of the job Trump is doing and 55.5 percent disapprove.
That's a significant decline from just after Trump took office in January 2017, when people were almost equally divided between support and opposition.
But there's been little shift in sentiment about the president in Barnardsville, judging from about two dozen recent interviews with residents in the community in Buncombe County's northeast corner.
Doris Gooding was typical, saying, "I think he's doing great."
Just more than 72 percent of residents of Buncombe's Precinct 50.1, which votes at Barnardsville Elementary School, voted for Trump in 2016. That made the precinct the county's most pro-Trump.
Democrat Hillary Clinton won the countywide vote in Buncombe County with 54.3 percent to Trump's 40.1 percent, but Buncombe was the state's only county west of Watauga where Clinton prevailed.
Barnardsville is similar to many places where Trump ran particularly well in WNC: rural, somewhat remote, with many working-class residents and few minorities.
Most people interviewed here who supported Trump in 2016 say their backing of him has not changed.
Several said they were pleased with declining unemployment. The national unemployment rate fell from 4.8 percent in January 2017 to 4.1 percent in December.
Supporters also frequently mentioned their approval of the tax reform bill Trump signed into law last month and his position on immigration issues.
Some said they just feel Trump has stuck to his guns, doing things he campaigned on.
The economy is the biggest reason Alex Stevens is happy with Trump.
"I like the bottom line," he said. "Everything is improving for everybody."
Economists interviewed by The Associated Press say the economy's performance in 2017 was a continuation of progress seen under President Barack Obama and that people often exaggerate the degree to which any president helps or hurts.
Roger Maney is another Barnardsville resident who said the rising stock market and improving economy are big reasons he is still in Trump's corner.
But asked how much he thinks Trump has to do with those trends, he said, "I don't really know."
Kenny Dillingham had no doubts.
"I think he gets 100 percent of the credit," he said.
Jones, who has regular contact with retailers as part of his job, said Trump has made people in business more optimistic about the economy, which in turn boosts employment.
He said merchants he sees in Asheville during sales calls make negative remarks about Trump, but elsewhere in the region there is enthusiasm about the economy he did not hear before Trump took office.
"The attitudes are totally different" from when Obama was in office, Jones said.
Crystal Brooks was the exception, someone who said her opinion of Trump had changed significantly since the 2016 vote.
"I thought he might be a good one. He had a good outlook," she said.
But now she is worried about relatives' Social Security benefits and said her assessment of the president has swung to "about neutral."
Several of his supporters said Trump's mouth, or perhaps his tweets, have caused much of his unpopularity among Americans in general and may have hampered his ability to implement his agenda.
Some found Trump's remarks distasteful; some said they were not bothered by them. Many raised the issue of Trump's remarks about racial issues or women without prompting from a reporter.
"He keeps sticking his foot in his mouth," Stevens said. "We could do without a lot of his lower-level dogfights."
"I wish that he would be a little more careful in what he puts out there and the way he does it," Maney said.
Fulton Beville and Gail Harwood said Trump's criticisms of other people seem to be his way of operating and do not necessarily take away from his accomplishments.
"He says a lot of things he shouldn't, but that's what he's been all his life," Harwood said.
She said she thinks God is guiding Trump and the direction of the country "even though he's not the best on the Bible."
Beville, a genial Georgia native whose last name is pronounced Bevel, put some of Trump's mannerisms down to his background and business career.
"I think our president is a typical New York businessman," he said. "I've worked with people from New York, and they're boisterous and bullish and foulmouthed."
"I wish that he wouldn't tweet as much as he does," Beville said.
He said Trump is "a billionaire. He's never had to take anything off anybody. ... He says what he thinks."
Ahead of the federal government shutdown that began at midnight Friday, Trump backers here said Congress should do a better job of working with the president and that some Democrats are obstructing the president's agenda for political reasons.
"I hate that the Democrats just won't accept him" as president, Doris Gooding said.
Others were scornful of senators and representatives from both parties.
"I've got a much bigger problem with Congress" compared to any minor concerns about Trump, Beville said. "If I had the ability to fire all those people, I'd do it."
Beville said he is sympathetic to the situation of people whose parents brought them to the United States illegally when they were minors.
Trump has voiced similar sentiments at times, though he and Congress have had difficulty agreeing on what to do about the program that has protected so-called Dreamers from being deported.
But beyond that group, "All the rest of these people coming here illegally, they need to go home," Beville said.
Maney said Congress "needs to get back on what our problems are."
He was among several who said Trump has kept the right priorities.
"He's pretty well still trying to do what he said he was going to do," he said.
Trump critics were the minority among those interviewed, but it doesn't appear that is because Trump has convinced many who voted against him in 2016 that he is the right man to be president.
Much as Trump supporters said their backing of the president has not changed, critics here said Trump has done nothing to change their minds.
If anything, his presidency has been worse than expected, said Laurie Assid. She is bothered by what she called Trump's lack of "impulse control, his inability to get along with other people."
Darryl Ballard disagreed with supporters' assessment of Trump's accomplishments and said he is troubled by the president's controversial statements.
"I don't think he's done half of what he said he was going to get done on the campaign trail. He's brought chaos," Ballard said. "It's shocking to me that the man says the things he does."
Dianne McKinney said her biggest problem with Trump is "his mouth. His mouth is too big."
She is worried about Trump's judgment and hostile comments about North Korea.
"I'm afraid he's going to get us into World War III," she said.
Seven counties in Western North Carolina gave Donald Trump more than 70 percent of their votes in the 2016 general election. Here is a list of those counties and the precinct in each where support for Trump was strongest.
Handheld computer maker Palm's figures will be closely watched after analysts say that Handspring's sales growth could outstrip that of rivals.
3Com and its spinoff Palm are expected to announce earnings this week. Palm's figures will be closely watched after analysts today said that rival Handspring's sales growth could outstrip those of Palm.
Also this week the SIA Electronic Signature Legislation Conference is scheduled to take place in New York on Sept. 26. Industry leaders will discuss how the Electronic Signature in Global and National Commerce Act will fundamentally alter electronic transactions.
This information was gathered from First Call/Thomson Financial, Hoover's Online, CCBN's StreetEvents and CNET Investor.
Cabletron Systems makes routers, switches and other products that connect computers in an office or home network. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 1 cent.
Palm makes handheld computers for more than 5 million users. Per-share consensus estimate: 2 cents.
Saba Software allows firms to customize, deliver and track Internet-based employee training programs. Clients have included 3Com, Cisco and Ford. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 42 cents.
The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Technology Edge Conference will take place in London Sept. 25 through Sept. 26.
Emcore will split its stock 2-for-1.
Semtech will split its stock 2-for-1.
Existing home sales, which represents the number of new homes sold in August, is expected to rise to 4.95 million from 4.79 million in July.
The Consumer Confidence index is expected to rise slightly to 141.2 from 141.1, indicating that consumers remain bullish on the economy and on their ability to make purchases.
3COM makes computer networking products. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 34 cents.
Micron Electronics makes computers, including Millennia PCs, TransPort notebooks and NetFRAME servers. The company is 63 percent owned by chipmaker Micron Technology. Per-share consensus estimate: 9 cents.
National Discount Brokers operates an online retail brokerage. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 8 cents.
Tibco Software lets businesses deliver information across networks and the Web. The company also offers e-commerce, consulting and support services. Per-share consensus estimate: 5 cents.
Microchip Technology will split its stock 3-for-2.
The SIA Electronic Signature Legislation Conference is scheduled to take place in New York.
CellStar distributes phones and accessories made by Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm and Motorola. Per-share consensus estimate: 7 cents.

Why the heck was this not coordinated with all of the widening and lane work that just completed last year.

There was a vast improvement with that work in lane function and road surfacing. Then Caltrans and the Flood control folks come in and grind tracks in the lanes removing paint, destroy the center divider, cause dangeraous merges and huge congestion with this ptifully planned project. Who the heck owns this overall mess?

Years ago Alma was resurfaced and was fantastic. Then the utility gods came in and dug it up end to end destrying the quality of the road surface. Again, COORDINATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY are missing.

It seems that nobody bothers to READ anymore. The article cleary states that the project is limited to June through October each year due to seasonal restrictions (i.e. Winter), which by my count is 5, not 12 months, so obviously it will take longer than year round work. Also, the project is unrelated to the recently completed widening project. It was unfortunately only recently approved and funded. Too bad it couldn't be coordinated with the widening project, but that's just the way things work.

I assume that this is related to the flood control improvements which is tied to the golf course rebuild project. As I understand it, both projects were held up because the head of one of the Bay oversight agencies kept pulling a Columbo ("just one more question") every time the flood work plan was presented. This caused the City to lose its golf course contract and added 2 years to the project's timeline not to mention the havoc it wrecked on Brad Lozares' business at the golf course. If that is the case, it could not have been done with the road widening because of the actions of one bureaucrat. Welcome to Amerika!

"It seems that nobody bothers to READ anymore. The article cleary states that the project is limited to June through October each year due to seasonal restrictions (i.e. Winter), which by my count is 5, not 12 months, so obviously it will take longer than year round work."

It may not be related to the widening project; but this sure is a show of lack of project planning skills.

Why can't they work round the clock for the few months a year they are doing this. I drove by on Sunday when there was bad traffic and no work being done. Round the clock, seven days a week, and this should have been done in one year.

@Resident, I think 24/7 would require four times the number of construction workers. I don't know whether the current market is that elastic.

The project looks pretty well laid out to me.

The project is taking place at night. Why would you want them to close the road during the day?

Any major artery in California should = round the clock labor.

When the major freeway bridge in LA fell down after the earthquake they fixed it in 3 WEEKS! Isn't this a major freeway??? When the freeway interchange in Oakland was burned to crisp with the gasoline truck, they fixed it in 3 days. No one has lit a big enough fire under the appropriate body part yet on the correct person.

Here is a time lapse of a 57 story building being built in 19 days in China.

The two sections of interstate 10 that collapsed in the LA earthquake took 3 months to complete - but that's with no time to pre-plan. Three years is a joke.

The team of nine, including four Nepali guides, died in Nepal’s worst climbing disaster in two years when a storm hit the Himalayan peak they were scaling last week.

The Korean expedition was led by Kim Chang-ho, who set the record in 2013 for being the fastest to reach the summits of the world’s 14 highest mountains over 8,000 metres (26,250 feet) without using supplemental oxygen.

Weeping relatives were at Incheon airport to receive the coffins containing the bodies of the five climbers. Some mourners held portraits of their loved ones.

The team was trying to blaze a new route on the south face of Mount Gurja, Yonhap news agency said. The 7,193 metre-high peak (23,600 feet) is located roughly 216 km (135 miles) northwest of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu.

Their bodies were found on Saturday near their base camp about 3,500 metres (11,500 feet) above sea level.

The disaster appeared to be caused by a “sudden gust of wind,” Lee In-jung, chairman of the Union of Asian Alpine Associations, told reporters.

“I believe it might be the first time in the history of climbing the Himalayas that an accident was caused this way,” he said, adding it could deter people from climbing there.

Lee said the belongings of the climbers, including footage from a documentary filmmaker on the team, had not been fully recovered.

A joint funeral ceremony is expected to be held at Kim’s alma mater, the University of Seoul, on Friday, according to Yonhap.

"I like the bottom line" under President Donald Trump, said Alex Stevens. "Everything is improving for everybody."

BARNARDSVILLE – In the heart of Buncombe County's Trump country, people who supported Donald Trump in 2016 say they are still on his side one year into his presidency, even if some of them wish he would tone down his inflammatory remarks.

"The stock market's up. Unemployment's down. It's wonderful," said Jerry Jones, who credits Trump with the improving national economy. "You see 'help wanted' signs everywhere."

Polls say Trump's approval rating nationally is at historically low levels. The Real Clear Politics average of leading national polls said Monday that 39.7 percent of Americans polled approve of the job Trump is doing and 55.5 percent disapprove.

That's a significant decline from just after Trump took office in January 2017, when people were almost equally divided between support and opposition.

But there's been little shift in sentiment about the president in Barnardsville, judging from about two dozen recent interviews with residents in the community in Buncombe County's northeast corner.

Doris Gooding was typical, saying, "I think he's doing great."

Just more than 72 percent of residents of Buncombe's Precinct 50.1, which votes at Barnardsville Elementary School, voted for Trump in 2016. That made the precinct the county's most pro-Trump.

Democrat Hillary Clinton won the countywide vote in Buncombe County with 54.3 percent to Trump's 40.1 percent, but Buncombe was the state's only county west of Watauga where Clinton prevailed.

Barnardsville is similar to many places where Trump ran particularly well in WNC: rural, somewhat remote, with many working-class residents and few minorities.

Most people interviewed here who supported Trump in 2016 say their backing of him has not changed.

Several said they were pleased with declining unemployment. The national unemployment rate fell from 4.8 percent in January 2017 to 4.1 percent in December.

Supporters also frequently mentioned their approval of the tax reform bill Trump signed into law last month and his position on immigration issues.

Some said they just feel Trump has stuck to his guns, doing things he campaigned on.

The economy is the biggest reason Alex Stevens is happy with Trump.

"I like the bottom line," he said. "Everything is improving for everybody."

Economists interviewed by The Associated Press say the economy's performance in 2017 was a continuation of progress seen under President Barack Obama and that people often exaggerate the degree to which any president helps or hurts.

Roger Maney is another Barnardsville resident who said the rising stock market and improving economy are big reasons he is still in Trump's corner.

But asked how much he thinks Trump has to do with those trends, he said, "I don't really know."

Kenny Dillingham had no doubts.

"I think he gets 100 percent of the credit," he said.

Jones, who has regular contact with retailers as part of his job, said Trump has made people in business more optimistic about the economy, which in turn boosts employment.

He said merchants he sees in Asheville during sales calls make negative remarks about Trump, but elsewhere in the region there is enthusiasm about the economy he did not hear before Trump took office.

"The attitudes are totally different" from when Obama was in office, Jones said.

Crystal Brooks was the exception, someone who said her opinion of Trump had changed significantly since the 2016 vote.

"I thought he might be a good one. He had a good outlook," she said.

But now she is worried about relatives' Social Security benefits and said her assessment of the president has swung to "about neutral."

Several of his supporters said Trump's mouth, or perhaps his tweets, have caused much of his unpopularity among Americans in general and may have hampered his ability to implement his agenda.

Some found Trump's remarks distasteful; some said they were not bothered by them. Many raised the issue of Trump's remarks about racial issues or women without prompting from a reporter.

"He keeps sticking his foot in his mouth," Stevens said. "We could do without a lot of his lower-level dogfights."

"I wish that he would be a little more careful in what he puts out there and the way he does it," Maney said.

Fulton Beville and Gail Harwood said Trump's criticisms of other people seem to be his way of operating and do not necessarily take away from his accomplishments.

"He says a lot of things he shouldn't, but that's what he's been all his life," Harwood said.

She said she thinks God is guiding Trump and the direction of the country "even though he's not the best on the Bible."

Beville, a genial Georgia native whose last name is pronounced Bevel, put some of Trump's mannerisms down to his background and business career.

"I think our president is a typical New York businessman," he said. "I've worked with people from New York, and they're boisterous and bullish and foulmouthed."

"I wish that he wouldn't tweet as much as he does," Beville said.

He said Trump is "a billionaire. He's never had to take anything off anybody. ... He says what he thinks."

Ahead of the federal government shutdown that began at midnight Friday, Trump backers here said Congress should do a better job of working with the president and that some Democrats are obstructing the president's agenda for political reasons.

"I hate that the Democrats just won't accept him" as president, Doris Gooding said.

Others were scornful of senators and representatives from both parties.

"I've got a much bigger problem with Congress" compared to any minor concerns about Trump, Beville said. "If I had the ability to fire all those people, I'd do it."

Beville said he is sympathetic to the situation of people whose parents brought them to the United States illegally when they were minors.

Trump has voiced similar sentiments at times, though he and Congress have had difficulty agreeing on what to do about the program that has protected so-called Dreamers from being deported.

But beyond that group, "All the rest of these people coming here illegally, they need to go home," Beville said.

Maney said Congress "needs to get back on what our problems are."

He was among several who said Trump has kept the right priorities.

"He's pretty well still trying to do what he said he was going to do," he said.

Trump critics were the minority among those interviewed, but it doesn't appear that is because Trump has convinced many who voted against him in 2016 that he is the right man to be president.

Much as Trump supporters said their backing of the president has not changed, critics here said Trump has done nothing to change their minds.

If anything, his presidency has been worse than expected, said Laurie Assid. She is bothered by what she called Trump's lack of "impulse control, his inability to get along with other people."

Darryl Ballard disagreed with supporters' assessment of Trump's accomplishments and said he is troubled by the president's controversial statements.

"I don't think he's done half of what he said he was going to get done on the campaign trail. He's brought chaos," Ballard said. "It's shocking to me that the man says the things he does."

Dianne McKinney said her biggest problem with Trump is "his mouth. His mouth is too big."

She is worried about Trump's judgment and hostile comments about North Korea.

"I'm afraid he's going to get us into World War III," she said.

Seven counties in Western North Carolina gave Donald Trump more than 70 percent of their votes in the 2016 general election. Here is a list of those counties and the precinct in each where support for Trump was strongest.

Handheld computer maker Palm's figures will be closely watched after analysts say that Handspring's sales growth could outstrip that of rivals.

3Com and its spinoff Palm are expected to announce earnings this week. Palm's figures will be closely watched after analysts today said that rival Handspring's sales growth could outstrip those of Palm.

Also this week the SIA Electronic Signature Legislation Conference is scheduled to take place in New York on Sept. 26. Industry leaders will discuss how the Electronic Signature in Global and National Commerce Act will fundamentally alter electronic transactions.

This information was gathered from First Call/Thomson Financial, Hoover's Online, CCBN's StreetEvents and CNET Investor.

Cabletron Systems makes routers, switches and other products that connect computers in an office or home network. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 1 cent.

Palm makes handheld computers for more than 5 million users. Per-share consensus estimate: 2 cents.

Saba Software allows firms to customize, deliver and track Internet-based employee training programs. Clients have included 3Com, Cisco and Ford. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 42 cents.

The Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Technology Edge Conference will take place in London Sept. 25 through Sept. 26.

Emcore will split its stock 2-for-1.

Semtech will split its stock 2-for-1.

Existing home sales, which represents the number of new homes sold in August, is expected to rise to 4.95 million from 4.79 million in July.

The Consumer Confidence index is expected to rise slightly to 141.2 from 141.1, indicating that consumers remain bullish on the economy and on their ability to make purchases.

3COM makes computer networking products. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 34 cents.

Micron Electronics makes computers, including Millennia PCs, TransPort notebooks and NetFRAME servers. The company is 63 percent owned by chipmaker Micron Technology. Per-share consensus estimate: 9 cents.

National Discount Brokers operates an online retail brokerage. Per-share consensus estimate: loss of 8 cents.

Tibco Software lets businesses deliver information across networks and the Web. The company also offers e-commerce, consulting and support services. Per-share consensus estimate: 5 cents.

Microchip Technology will split its stock 3-for-2.

The SIA Electronic Signature Legislation Conference is scheduled to take place in New York.

CellStar distributes phones and accessories made by Ericsson, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm and Motorola. Per-share consensus estimate: 7 cents.