Scott Ishikawa Quotes (26 Quotes)

When you patch potholes in wet weather, you might as well be patching with oatmeal. We have to wait until the ground dries up.

Data shows there have been a high number of pedestrian accidents in this area the King Street corridor.

It'll be more difficult to call somebody on the outside for the more choice assignments.

The supervisor who made the call has not been reassigned. He has been disciplined and it will go on his record. They felt it was an unintentional mistake and they felt he wasn't profiting from this.

I guess it's a way for a lot of people to express themselves after losing a loved one, but we had incidents where the roadside memorial got out of hand.

The kids were leaving flowers and everything all over the sidewalk, and nobody could get through, and they were also leaving unopened beer bottles.

Today looked like our only window of opportunity to do this week. We just went with it.

Some of our guys, they get skittish working at night after what happened on the zipper lane accident a couple of years ago. And we don't blame them.

If you look at the fencing, it did do a lot of damage and it's something we're gonna have to fix up. But the good news is it did hold up, and did do its job.

The debris that we found was mainly trees, vegetation, some small rocks and mostly mud. So we just want to take care of that with all this rainy weather we've gotten lately.

We're going to keep the right lane closed indefinitely for now until we can figure out what to do. This area is kind of dark at night, so we were worried that any drivers would run into the debris that comes down to the road, so we figured just close the right lane down as a precaution.

It's causing a small disruption, but there's no lack of taxi cabs at the airport. We'll just make adjustments as need be.

If we make the roadway higher it will be a dam. If we make it any lower the road will be washed out.

I don't think anyone questions the good intentions of the project. The issue brought up is who's going to foot the bill.

And we can't afford to have traffic on the freeway at the time because it creates vibrations and that affects the way the concrete sets properly.

We tried to start a little earlier so that we could be done in time for the afternoon rush hour. It turned out that caused a backlog of turning cars, though.

Expect to see them out there all week if the weather holds up.

Unfortunately, he went beyond his authority and he should have contacted someone higher up.

Just because you don't have debris today doesn't necessarily mean you're not going to have debris coming down from upstream another day. We'll just keep double-checking until the storm hits.

We apologize for the delay.

We have lost about four weekends of work that we were going to pour concrete. And people are asking us why do we only pour concrete on the weekends. Well, we need to close couple lanes and we need three days for the concrete to cure.

One boulder was stuck in a tree -- the size of a car engine.

The reason we're using the zipper lane barrier is it gives a little more than the regular barrier, so we don't want a car, when it impacts it, to ricochet back into the other lane of traffic. While we're trying to prevent head on collisions we also don't want an accident on the same side of the highway.

When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.

We think we're in better shape now than we were two years ago. What we have to do is keep repaving our roads and take care of them instead of letting them go to long without having to resurface them again.

When we started this project, it was meant to improve safety. It was not meant to help develop Turtle Bay.