The state Transportation Commission last week approved several road projects for Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties, with the biggest chunk being $45 million to replace the Highway 101 bridges over the Petaluma River with wider spans to allow car-pool lanes. Click here to read about that.

Among the other projects approved locally are:

–$6.1 million to repave stretches of Highways 29 and 53 in Lake County. The Highway 29 work will go from just south of the junction with Highway 53 in Lower Lake to just north of it. For Highway 53, the work will go from Highway 29 to just north of 40th Avenue in Clearlake.

–$9 million to replace the Greenwood Creek Bridge on Highway 1 near Elk in Mendocino County with a wider bridge that will include a pedestrian walkway.

–$9.9 million to repave about 24 miles of Highway 128 from near Boonville south to the Sonoma County line.

–$3 million to decommission an old stretch of Highway 101 in the Confusion Hill area near Leggett in Mendocino County, ripping out steel mesh, lights and the pavement to keep them from falling into the South Fork Eel River because of continuing landslide there. The landslide forced Caltrans to realign 101 there.

–$161,000 to make and install 40 Mission Bell markers along Highway 101 in the Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park areas and on Highway 12 near Sonoma.

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