Comments on: No balloons, helicopters, jeep fleets and ATVs in Sedona

By: West sedona resident

West sedona resident — Tue, 31 May 2016 15:00:26 +0000

Amen, Steve Jones.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:46:02 +0000

follow the money

By: Jerry, Sedona City Limits

Jerry, Sedona City Limits — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:53:50 +0000

@Warren – yes it’s true according to a front page article (RRN, Friday, March 18). It gets worse by the moment. And tomorrow (3/23) they will be deciding abut moving forward with the decision to control how we dispose of our garbage.

These last two councils are completely in outer space when it comes to controlling our destiny for YEARS to come. Arrogance of power? Can hardly wait for the “sustained pilgrimage” to move forward although for the time being that might have taken a back seat. They need to get those 5000 signed up in order to sent out monthly bills to pay for contracts with Red Earth Theatre and other such nonsense – at OUR expense. What an opportunity!

By: Warren

Warren — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 03:05:20 +0000

@ Jerry, Sedona City Limits — R U serious? The laser light show proposal is back again? I thought that was considered and rejected a while back.

By: Jerry, Sedona City Limits

Jerry, Sedona City Limits — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 02:08:08 +0000

@James Harrington, nice evaluation but you left out the uncontrolled impact the million $$$ plus funding for alleged destination marketing has factually contributed to the increased number of day-trippers. Bad, bad planning all to accommodate special interests that, as pointed out by “magickj” serve to destroy the natural beauty of the area. And now they are proposing laser light displays during the upcoming “Holiday Central.” Go figure.

By: magickj

magickj — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:06:59 +0000

It’s unfortunate that people like “We Need” have to resort to insults and rudeness when information does not go their way.
ALL emergency vehicles have access to the bridge in LaMerra. I have seen FD go thru there several times.
I did not move in from out of state – stop spreading rumors. There’s no doubt in my mind that I’ve been here a lot longer than you and I’m a native of Arizona.
We DO NOT want a bridge at Red Rock Crossing. Sure you want TRAVEL convenience but public safety has NOTHING to do with it. You are just like everyone else who uses FEAR and PANIC to get what you want – a short cut through my neighborhood.
This is our neighborhood and we’ll do what we must to protect it. Just because YOU came from a big out-of-state city doesn’t mean that you can come here and bully your way into making our pristine forest and meditation areas into a freeway! It took nature about 21 million years to create the beauty here, and one idiot who wants TRAVEL CONVENIENCE to destroy it.
Get a life.

By: James Harrington

James Harrington — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:25:41 +0000

Sorry, “We need a bridge at RRC” – Not to dispute the need to restore that access as an alternate route, but it isn’t the roundabouts on 179 that are “ineffectual.” It’s the fault of the uptown, amateur road designers and engineers that reconfigured the less than one mile of the city owned SR89A that has caused the huge backups.

Need proof? Consider the hours it now takes to get from Flagstaff to Sedona since that ridiculous decision to narrow the highway uptown. There are NO roundabouts coming from the north to Sedona except the one at the top of the switchbacks prior to entering Oak Creek Canyon.

Traffic comes to a halt every time a car backs out of a parking space uptown which wasn’t the case when ADOT owned and maintained the entire highway – before the city made the stupid decision to narrow the interstate in exchange for wider sidewalks. OMG – rocket scientists = NOT!

I rest my case.

By: We need a bridge at RRC

We need a bridge at RRC — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:15:04 +0000

Madge, you are wrong! Sedona needs a bridge at RRC. Yes the FD has access to the low water crossing, but needs to open gates, travel on unmaintained roads and go way out of the way to get there!!! Get a clue. You probably fought the fight to get the ineffectual roundabouts on 179 and now you are fighting a circulatory traffic flow system. Traffic flows similar to water. Sedona current has a “dead-end” system and needs a circular flow pattern!!!

Typical, move in from out of state and scream “close the gate” now that you’re here.

WE want a bridge at RRC!!! …in the name of public safety AND travel convenience!
NIMBYs and BANANAS (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) no longer control Sedona!

Just cause you live down there doesn’t make you the Road King!

By: Can't Have it Both Ways

Can't Have it Both Ways — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:00:35 +0000

Here we go again @magickj.

You jolly well don’t want encroachment in your territory (bridge at RR Crossing) and yet you don’t hesitate to tell incorporated Sedona how to run their business. Why not do something really useful and pursue annexation into the city to incorporate all areas within both Fire & School Districts? Put your money where your mouth is or shut it up.

By: magickj

magickj — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 20:50:08 +0000

I saw in the Red Rock Snooze someone was (again) bringing up the bridge at Red Rock Crossing. As per usual, the writer’s argued that having a bridge would save lives!!! Someone ought to tell that guy that 1) emergency vehicles already have access to that bridge, 2) the county decided NOT to pursue building a bridge due to costs, 3) The speed limit on Upper Red Rock Loop Road is 25 and 15 in front of the school and it’s actually faster to use the Cornville road from VOC, 4) Tourist and jeep tour drivers stop IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LOOP ROAD often for photos. You can be coming around a blind curve and nearly rear end or hit someone intent on getting that perfect photo and 5) Loop Road is in Yavapai County and why should they spend money to help uptown Sedona traffic issues when it’s not even their county? The residents in and around the Cathedral Rock Valley see what has happened to 179 – how it was completely ruined by traffic controls (curbs, two lanes, 35 mph speed limit) and they want nothing to do with having those issues in their neighborhood. So stop with the bridge idea – it isn’t going to happen.