Here are some road projects this week in Sonoma County that may affect you: --On Monday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., county roads crews will be grinding out damaged pavement and putting down fresh asphalt on Crane Canyon Road near Grange Road. Traffic will be down to one lane. --On [...]
The widening of Highway 101 is about to take some big leaps forward. --This week, weather permitting, Caltrans says, construction crews will begin the final paving of 101 from Rohnert Park Expressway to Petaluma Boulevard North, doing the work overnight to limit traffic delays. Northbound work is scheduled [...]
Caltrans this week is holding a briefing for the media about the Highway 101 widening in Rohnert Park and Cotati and the East Washington Street interchange project in Petaluma. The Road Warrior will be there, so if you have questions about those projects, send them to me by leaving a [...]
Petaluma police officers on Friday will be hanging out at Lakeville Street and East Washington Street, looking for traffic violators because that intersection is the city's worst when it comes to the number of collisions. Last year, 10 collisions occurred there. So far this year, three have. Of those 13 [...]
Caltrans says the pile driving project that was to start Tuesday at Highway 101 and East Washington Street in Petaluma has been delayed until Wednesday at the earliest because of the storm forecast for Tuesday. With rain expected for the next couple of days, Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus said engineers [...]
The results are in from Friday's bicycle/pedestrian safety enforcement by Petaluma police. The seven traffic officers who worked from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. made 115 traffic stops, with 83 ending in warnings and 32 in tickets. Police [...]
The number of traffic collisions in Petaluma jumped last year but they're still the second lowest in 25 years, according to the Police Department's annual traffic safety report. Other quick highlights: --The top reason for collisions: Unsafe speed. --May was the worst month for collisions. --Fridays had the highest number [...]
Here are a couple of questions from readers regarding Highway 101. First: I'm concerned with the amount of debris that is building up along the 101 concrete median divider from Windsor to Rohnert Park. Is the cleanup Caltrans' responsibility or the county or the city? It's becoming an eyesore and [...]
Caltrans' beginning work on the remodeled East Washington Street interchange with Highway 101 means part of the street will be closed two nights this week. The No. 2 (right) westbound lane of East Washington, the major east-west road in Petaluma, will be shut from 10 p.m. Tuesday until 5 a.m. [...]
Caltrans this week begins work on the long-awaited remodel of Petaluma's Highway 101 interchange at East Washington Street. But the work will require some detours for drivers. Weather permitting, crews are scheduled on the nights of Thursday; Friday; Monday; Tuesday, Dec. 20; and Wednesday, Dec. 21, to cut down trees [...]