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Q: Does the city have any plans to build an overpass on Rosedale Highway, just west of Landco? At least twice a week I get stuck in a dead stop for anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes while a train blocks the roads hooking up to and dropping off cars. With this being such a major roadway I was curious if the city has addressed this issue. Once you make it to that point it is extremely out of the way to take an alternative route from Rosedale to downtown or vice versa.
— Curtis Noble
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Last year during this time the Department of Fish and Game planted trout each week at Lake Ming, Hart Park, The Park at River Walk and Truxtun Lake. They have only done this one time this year. Can you tell us why?
— Douglas Johnson
The Department of Fish and Game doesn’t promise weekly plantings anywhere. Even planned plantings can be changed by road, water and weather conditions, a spokeswoman said. The Bakersfield lakes were planted on Dec. 7 and 14. No plantings were...
Q: If you drive through Bakersfield you’ll see all these restaurants using big barbecue pits and burning wood all day long.
On no-burn days, why are they apparently exempt from wood-burning restrictions?
— Tom Allesch
A: Under the air district’s no-burn rule, “cookstoves” are exempt.
The exemption applies to restaurants and residential grills and barbecues, according to Brenda Turner, spokeswoman for the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District....
Q: What are they doing at the corner of 24th and Oak? Is this the beginning of the interchange construction? I really missed seeing the pumpkin patch this year. If this is part of the interchange when is the projected date of completion.
Thanks
Julie Crawford
A. That’s a drainage basin, and should be done in a few months, according to the city’s Department of Public Works.
There are some studies underway to examine future traffic control measures at that intersection,...
Location:
Rosedale Highway and Fairhaven Drive,
Bakersfield, Ca
Q: I was looking for information on the new Hooters coming to Bakersfield, but couldn’t find any recent information or an estimated date of the completion. Do you have any new info? Thanks, Cecilia Peters A: The restaurant at Rosedale Highway and Fairhaven Drive is under construction and may open about April, said Frank Chopski, chief operating officer, Hooters of Central California. Cecilia, you are not alone in your interest. In his 19 years with Hooters, Chopski said...
Q: People living in the Rosedale area are very lucky that anytime they smell the bad odor they can tell immediately that the culprit is the refinery. The problem is addressed immediately.
However, people in the southwest Bakersfield area, particularly in the vicinity of Panama Lane, are suffering also from bad odor.
Residents reported the odor several times which they believe is coming from nearby dairy farms, but there is no action at all. Is there any difference in addressing the problem...
Q: “I’m just curious, why do we have have to change the clock every six months, or whatever it is? I know they started it during WWII. We don’t have to have it now. I know I’m not the only one who really has a hard time adjusting to the change of time. Why can’t we just leave it like it is? I like it in the summer when we have longer evenings. Why can’t we have it like that?
— Beverly Dahl
A: According to the California Energy Commission...
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