This is on the path that I walk Falcor. I don't think that I've ever pointed out just how close the freeway is to where I walk. I've know I've talked about the wall that separates the freeway from where I walk but just to give you an idea I took this picture. The sound wall is all the way on the right and because the walkway has a curve in it right here, they stopped the wall, put in a fence, moved the wall over to the left and started the wall up again. You can see the freeway through the fence and there's just a little padlock stopping someone from walking onto the freeway right there.
The freeway is right there through the fence. I see kids climbing that fence and playing right there all the time.
Here's a close up through the fence. As you can see, the only thing beyond the fence is a concrete barrier.
People routinely leave bags on clothes on this fence for the homeless that live in the area. There used to be 3 tents set up right on the other side of the fence but the police made the homeless people move.
One more thing...
Yesterday I was a guest reviewer over at I Smell Sheep where I reviewed Toxic Game by Christine Feehan. I hope you'll pop over and let me know what you think of my review.
Blurb
On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible—or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He won’t risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory....
Shylah Cosmos’s mission is to track the virus and remain unseen. Her enhanced senses tell her that the gorgeous man eradicating the terrorists one by one is a GhostWalker—and his lethal precision takes her breath away. When he’s hit by a lucky shot, she can’t stop herself from stepping in, not knowing that by saving his life she’s exposed herself to the virus.
There’s no telling how much time Draden and Shylah have left. Racing to find a cure, they quickly realize that they’ve found their perfect partner just in time to lose everything. But even as the virus threatens to consume their bodies, they’ve never felt more alive.
That wall is not pretty at all
ReplyDeleteI know. I've never liked it.
DeleteThat's close. Kind of cool how they leave the bags.
ReplyDeleteThe bags are always taken too. I'm sure they appreciate the clothes and stuff.
DeleteRather odd design. They couldn't have just built a curve in the wall at that point to it would be continuous?
ReplyDeleteYou would think that's how they would build it but I guess not.
DeleteThere's been a lot of negativity here about the bags because people were leaving them everywhere and I guess not many were taken. I suspect many of the homeless have mental disorders that make them paranoid.
ReplyDeleteThat's probably right. These bags usually gt taken.
DeleteKids play there? Not a good idea.
ReplyDeleteYeah I've seen kids playing right on the other side of the fence.
DeleteI can't believe kids climb that and play right there, that is crazy!
ReplyDeleteIt is. But the teenagers around here will do nutty things.
DeleteYeah, wouldn't be letting kids play there
ReplyDeleteSo many parents just have no idea what their kids are up to.
DeleteFreeway, wall,, fence - it looks like a dangerous spot for all: kids, homeless, residents.
ReplyDeleteSo far the wall has kept the accidents from spilling over onto this side of the wall.
DeleteIt sounds like a dangerous area. Are they just working on completing the wall or has it been like that?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's been like this for years. That's the way they're leaving it.
DeleteI am sure I have driven by your apt... I hope the sound barrier wall works. Even though we were probably 300 yards from i-15 when I lived in Cedar City, UT, at times you could still hear the freeway.
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Oh even with the sound wall, we can still hear it very much.
DeleteDangerous for kids...
ReplyDeleteIt really is.
DeleteWow that's a trip! I'm not surprised kids play there. Hopefully no one ever gets hurt.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually really surprised no one has been hurt yet that I know of.
DeleteHm. You'd think that large space would defeat the purpose of the sound barrier. Maybe?
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly.
DeleteThat is close. They should do something to make sure its safe because of the kids.
ReplyDeleteThe police make the kids leave when they see them, other than that I doubt anything will ever be done about it.
DeleteOdd setup. I hope no kids ever make it onto the freeway.
ReplyDeleteI hope not either.
DeleteIt has a padlock, nobody gets in nobody gets out.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they must think that lock will stop everyone.
DeleteAhhhhh, we found the wall!
ReplyDeleteLOL Yeah and a way around it.
DeleteI would think something better than a padlock on the fence would be a priority. People can just climb over. commit a crime and head back to the freeway. I would think that is very unsafe.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't make much sense at all.
DeleteIt won't be fun to live so close to that. A bit dangerous the way they have things set up!
ReplyDeleteIt's still loud even with the sound wall.
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