A Caltrans photo illustration shows the plan for a roundabout at Highway 20, running left to right, at Nice-Lucerne Cutoff Road in Lake County. The Sentry Market grocery store is at bottom right.
Caltrans has started building a roundabout on Highway 20 at Nice-Lucerne Cutoff Road in an attempt to improve safety at the Lake County intersection.
A Caltrans statement said the collision rate at the intersection near Nice is more than five times the statewide average for similar intersections.
“The roundabout will reduce the number and severity of collisions,” the statement said. “It will also lower vehicle emissions by lessening idle times compared to a traffic signal.”
The project is estimated to cost a total of $4.6 million, with $2.6 million of that for the construction by Granite Construction.
It is to projected to be completed by the end of the year.
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Robert B. Tanner
FANTASTIC! Caltrans is recognizing that we need to get with the 21st century, but then District 1 out of Eureka has been very pro roundabout, with even an article on the things in its own website for some time now.
Now all we need to do, is to get our own Caltrans district 4 to get on board to get rid of outdated rural traffic lights and convert them to roundabouts like what we’re supposed to get out here in Forestville.
March 26th, 2012 5:32 pm
Robert
I love roundabouts. I can really fly through those things in my BMW!
March 26th, 2012 6:27 pm
Dave
Looking at Cal.trans picture it won’t work. The approach is too straight and the radius too loose. as the typical BMW driver wrote any car would be able to “fly” through there. You need to slow traffic at the approach or you are defeating the object.
March 27th, 2012 1:34 am
Ralph Archer
This is quite possibly the brainchild of some Cal Trans puppet in Sac.
Bad IDEA!
March 27th, 2012 5:27 pm
JT Sratt
This will cause more accidents than occurred at this intersection in years. Stupid idea cornflake!
March 27th, 2012 5:31 pm
Linda
Have they considered all the big rigs using hwy 20???????
March 30th, 2012 7:11 am
Ryan Smith
A simple overpass should of been placed at this intersection this is only going to affect the flow of traffic highway 20 is in poor shape and needs to be paved i do live local and i am a truck driver
June 15th, 2012 2:41 pm