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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: John Del Santo <mcbwaycool@yahoo.com><BR>Subject: Southbound I-5, Exit 23<BR>To: "john del santo" <mcbwaycool@yahoo.com><BR>Date: Friday, August 12, 2011, 9:44 PM<BR><BR>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Karen Jewel<SPAN> </SPAN>John Del Santo</FONT></FONT></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Chief of Traffic Engineering<SPAN> </SPAN>ABATE of California</FONT></FONT></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>& Analysis Branch<SPAN> </SPAN>P.O. Box 7998</FONT></FONT></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Dept of Transportation<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN> San Diego , CA 92167</FONT></FONT></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>District 11<SPAN> </SPAN>August 12, 2011</FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma><B>San Diego</B><B>, CA</B><B> 9211</B></FONT></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Dear Ms. Jewel, </FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Thank you for your response to our inquiry regarding the southbound I-5 off-ramp at exit 23 ( Mission Bay Drive ). </FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Your response indicates that the pavement there makes a rider as safe as being in a Mother’s arms….and yet when our rider came down that ramp on<SPAN> </SPAN>(date ) and decelerated, her back wheel was thrown into a serious wobble which caused her motorcycle to go down.<SPAN> </SPAN>This is a rider with many years and many miles of motorcycle experience.<SPAN> </SPAN>The tow truck driver told her that he picks up crashed motorcycles at that location on a regular basis.</FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Another one of our riders used that off-ramp a week later, and experienced a rear-wheel wobble.<SPAN> </SPAN>Two weeks later, another of our members saw a sport-bike motorcycle down at that location.<SPAN> </SPAN>Does anyone in your office ride a motorcycle that they could take to that off-ramp and conduct field trip inspections at that site ?<SPAN> </SPAN>Because having gone there with a pickup truck <SPAN> </SPAN>probably did not tell you much.</FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Because I feel that there is a design problem there,<SPAN> </SPAN>and because I have informed you of a possible problem there,<SPAN> </SPAN>I will<SPAN> </SPAN>now be posting this letter to our state websites and discussion lists and will make our correspondence on this area fully available to anyone who has or had a problem at this ramp, and who wants to use our correspondence for a claim that Cal Trans has been previously notified.<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></B>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN> </SPAN>Thank you for your interest in this matter. </FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN> </SPAN>Sincerely, </FONT></FONT></B>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=yiv1502331482MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>John V. Del Santo</FONT></FONT></B>
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