Last week's rains washed out Caltrans efforts to smooth out a rough stretch of Highway 29 along Hidden Valley in Lake County, but crews will try again Tuesday and Wednesday. The grinding work, weather permitting but no rain's in the forecast, will be 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day [...]
After last summer's chip sealing project on Highway 29 in Lake County went bad, Caltrans this week plans to grind a stretch bordering Hidden Valley in an attempt to smooth the rough road. The work, weather permitting, will be 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday with one-way traffic [...]
After being confronted with continued community outrage, Caltrans is speeding up its plan to fix a chip sealing project gone bad in the Middletown area at a cost of millions. Caltrans announced Thursday that next summer it would repave a 12-mile stretch of Highway 29 from the Lake County line [...]
Chip sealing on Petrified Forest Road between Santa Rosa and Calistoga is expected to cause "extended traffic delays" today through Friday, the Sonoma County roads department warns. In fact, Jen, a Road Warrior reader, wrote us that "the traffic is very backed up and wait times can exceed 15 minutes." [...]
After a public outcry, Caltrans is speeding up plans to spend millions to repave stretches of Highways 29 and 175 in Lake County that were chip sealed just this past summer at a cost of $2.1 million but left drivers fuming over the rough results. "The chip seal project, which [...]
The Sonoma County roads department plans the following road work this week -- the days of the work are subject to change: --Bennett Valley Road, from Enterprise and Keiser Ranch roads, for paving Wednesday and Thursday. -–Bennett Valley Road, from Warm Springs to Sonoma Mountain roads, for brush cutting today [...]
Martin Stein came home from a two-week vacation to find Sonoma Mountain Road in front of his house had been turned into dirt, and he doesn’t like it. A 600-foot stretch of the one-time asphalt road and about 10 inches of the dirt below had been pulverized, injected [...]
The Sonoma County roads department plans the following projects this week: --Bennett Valley Road, from Warm Springs to Sonoma Mountain roads, traffic control at points for brush cutting today and Wednesday. --Calistoga Road, from Santa Rosa to Porter Creek Road, traffic control at points for brush cutting today and Wednesday. [...]
You have questions, the Road Warrior seeks the answers. Here's a question from a reader and a response from the county roads department: Question: I live in the Larkfield Wikiup area of Sonoma County and have watched the repaving work on Old Redwood Hwy from north of the city limits [...]
A $1.2 million project to chip seal 12 miles of Highway 29 in Lake County is scheduled to start next week after about a three-week delay caused by a national shortage of paint for road stripes. Caltrans engineer Oungkar Narine said the work will begin Monday with removal of crosswalk [...]