35 Quotes by Scott Ishikawa

When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.

We're going to keep the right lane closed indefinitely for now until we can figure out what to do. This area is kind of dark at night, so we were worried that any drivers would run into the debris that comes down to the road, so we figured just close the right lane down as a precaution.

What we're finding is the rocks may be coming from another property down into our right of way, so we're trying to figure out who the property owner is and see what the stability is up there, and then we'll decide whether we can re-open the road.

We're gonna do the best we can to protect the public.

One boulder was stuck in a tree -- the size of a car engine.

I guess it's a way for a lot of people to express themselves after losing a loved one, but we had incidents where the roadside memorial got out of hand.

I don't think anyone questions the good intentions of the project. The issue brought up is who's going to foot the bill.

If we make the roadway higher it will be a dam. If we make it any lower the road will be washed out.

Today looked like our only window of opportunity to do this week. We just went with it.