Why's the road blocked??????? (Bethel: houses, to buy, subdivision)

[Tundra Tired]

Why's the H-Marker road blocked in Bethel? That's a pain in the ars!

[warptman]

That goes back about 30 years there Tundra. The land is a Native Allotment owned by Miss Polk. The city made the Tundra Ridge subdivision and wanted to make a shortcut to the airport. They went over the Polk's land without permission and all these years the older boys wanted the city to buy the land or give them what was owed for putting the road down. They didn't have permission from them and put the road down anyways. When Warren moved back home and into the huge waste of money log cabin, he wanted access to the house at all times. Now Earl Jr has a house there, too. Whenever it rained the road would go to hell with ruts and they couldn't get to the house. The were originally were going to block the road up when it rained so the road would stay fairly decent. When kids or adults flattened the tires on the red van and the gray car, they permanently shut the road down, only foot traffic and bicyclists like myself could go through.

Last week the city and the Polks agreed on a deal where the city would put a bunch of sand on the road and gravel on top of it to fill out the low areas of the road, they'd open it. Same time last week, some kids smashed out the windows to the van and he closed it permanently.

Now I can't even bike through the area, I just do the boring airport and back ride daily. (I'm that huge dude on the silver Giant Mountain Bike.) I really hope this gets resolved soon. In my opinion, if they don't allow the city to fix the road, the city should get their huge backhoe and dig a ditch across the road so they can't get to their houses, I mean if we can't go through it neither should they!

[warptman]

This is the road block on the Tundra Ridge Road. You can see the van and car across the road.

[Tundra Tired]

I see your point and I guess I see their point too. I doubt they could dig across the road...it'd be like the city getting mad at you and digging across your driveway so you can't use the street. They didn't ask for that road to be put in but now that it is it's their driveway in a manner of speaking.

Seems like they could just work it out. Punishing the whole town because some punk busted the windows out seems a little stupid. What did they expect?

[breezey514]

I was at that meeting with the city last week and it seemed to go on and on. since then you say more vandalism and now the Polk brothers closed the road for good?

[warptman]

I think they're still in talks with them. I sure hope they open the road or build another one around it before it freezes. Council Member Kepple and his stupid idea about opening up the "donut hole" is getting old. The city just doesn't have any money for that now. They need to resolve this Tundra Ridge problem first. Don't forget to register to vote so we won't end up with him again and get a new bunch of people in there. Get rid of Thor, Jorgenson, and Leinberger. These three argue way too much and make the meetings long and not interesting.