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Update on Highway 101 project

If you’re tired of the uneven pavement on Highway 101 between Rohnert Park and Petaluma, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus says the final paving project is set to start June 4 and will take about four to six weeks to complete. That’s weather permitting. A streak of rain or unusually cold weather could pushed that back a bit. As for the last segments of the Wilfred Avenue and Commerce Boulevard overpasses in Rohnert… Read More »

Rohnert Park road to be closed

Caltrans plans to shut Commerce Boulevard under Highway 101 in Rohnert Park on Friday night. The closure will be 8 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Saturday to allow construction crews to remove falsework from a new overpass built over Commerce. The overpass is part of Caltrans’ project to widen Highway 101 to six lanes through Rohnert Park. Drivers can get across Highway 101 by using Rohnert Park Expressway to the south. ———— Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter via @PDRoadWarrior

Commerce Blvd. closed at night

Caltrans plans to close Commerce Boulevard under Highway 101 in Rohnert Park overnight Thursday and Friday as crews continue work on building an overpass there. Commerce is scheduled to be closed from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Caltrans said it might have to close Commerce a couple of nights next week too. ———– Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter via @PDRoadWarrior

Commerce Blvd. closed at night

Caltrans is shutting Commerce Boulevard under Highway 101 in Rohnert Park from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night this week through Friday night to allow construction crews to drill and pour eight, 100-foot piles for a new highway overpass. The work is part of project to widen 101 to six lanes through Rohnert Park. Caltrans had planned the work a couple of weeks ago but pushed it off.

Commerce Blvd. closed at night

Caltrans announced Wednesday afternoon that it is closing Commerce Boulevard under Highway 101 in Rohnert Park for overnight Wednesday and Thursday. The road will be blocked off from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Caltrans’ announcement didn’t say why, but a good guess is that construction crews are working on some aspect of the new highway overpass that is starting to be built over Commerce. Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter via @PDRoadWarrior.

Road projects around county this week

Several road projects will affect traffic around Sonoma County this week: –Caltrans is shutting Commerce Boulevard under Highway 101 in Rohnert Park from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday to Thursday this week and next to allow construction crews to drill and pour eight 100-foot pilings for a new highway overpass. –The county roads department will be paving part of Porter Creek Road near the Mark West Springs Quarry today through Thursday. –Salmon Creek Road will have traffic control today… Read More »

Hwy. 101 traffic shift tonight

A week after northbound Highway 101 traffic was shifted onto the new Wilfred Avenue-Commerce Boulevard overpass in Rohnert Park, Caltrans on Friday night will move southbound traffic onto it. The process begins at 10 p.m. and is expected to be completed by early morning Saturday. The southbound Santa Rosa Avenue onramp also will reopen tonight. The next step for construction crews widening 101 there is to demolish the old overpass over Commerce. To do that, Commerce under 101 will be… Read More »

Hwy. 101 lane shift tonight in Rohnert Park

Caltrans reaches a milestone Friday night on Highway 101 when northbound traffic will be routed over the new Wilfred Avenue-Commerce Boulevard overpass in Rohnert Park. The CHP says the switchover will start around 11 p.m. as construction crews close lanes and on and offramps intermittently to reconfigure the northbound lanes. So motorists should be extra careful from 11 p.m. until sometime early Saturday when the switch will be complete. Southbound traffic is expected to be shifted over to the new… Read More »

Commerce Blvd. to close for 12 days

Here’s an early warning: Caltrans plans to close Commerce Boulevard under Highway 101 in Rohnert Park for 12 days starting about Aug. 1. Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus said that during the closure construction crews will tear down 101′s current north and southbound overpass in order to begin building a new southbound overpass. Northbound 101 traffic is due to be switched over to the new Wilfred Avenue/Commerce overpass on July 22 with southbound traffic being shifted over July 29. Around the… Read More »