12/11/2023 0 Comments California gridlock ticket![]() 30 in the Mission Inn with live organ accompaniment. Just in time for Halloween, the 1925 version of “The Phantom of the Opera” with Lon Chaney will screen at 1:30 p.m. In Riverside, it seems, Gridlock isn’t moving. A water line will be replaced, necessitating street digging and traffic control until about March. Starting as soon as Monday, Riversiders will see “Gridlock” emblazoned on cones and equipment on Brockton Avenue from Mission Inn Avenue to 14th Street. The project along Canyon Crest Drive is wrapping up this week after seven months of traffic control along 1.2 miles of road. ![]() “If I can slow traffic down in the work zone and keep people safe,” Buchholz says, “I’ve done my job.” Gridlock, at least in the narrow sense of this particular company, is evidently acceptable, perhaps even desirable. Jobs so far have been in Ontario, Carlsbad, San Diego, L.A. (Photo by David Allen, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) It’s the name of the company doing traffic control while the street has been torn up for a new sewer line. “Either that or they’re cursing it, seeing cone after cone with ‘Gridlock,’ ‘Gridlock,’ ‘Gridlock.’” Tubular delineators stamped with the word “Gridlock” have greeted motorists for months on Riverside’s Canyon Crest Drive. “Obviously the public gets a kick out of it too,” Buchholz agrees. I tell Buchholz that on my slow drives past his skinny orange barriers - tubular delineators, in industry parlance - the name has made me laugh, not my usual reaction when stuck in traffic. “We’re trying to create Gridlock Solutions, although at times,” Buchholz admits, “it’s like we’re causing gridlock.” Calling your company Gridlock Solutions is self-descriptive, but possibly optimistic.
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