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Roads Report: Sonoma work begins and this week’s county projects

Caltrans has started two repair projects in Sonoma -- on State Route 12 from Napa Road to the junction with State Route 121, and on State Route 121 near Schellville from State Route 37 to the Sonoma Creek Bridge (near the junction with State Route 116). This work will continue [...]

By | August 5th, 2013|1 Comment

Update on Highway 101/Airport Blvd. construction

Those of you who work in the Airport Blvd. business cluster already know about road closures and detours, but what about Jake, a reader who makes an occasional trip to the Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport? "Yesterday, I went to the Charles Schulz Airport via 101 from Santa [...]

By | July 30th, 2013|4 Comments

Mailbag: Airport Blvd. woes

A fond farewell to the Fulton Road interchange and the video of a construction truck close-call. Question: I’ve noticed that now the southbound Fulton Road off ramp as well as the northbound off ramp has been closed. Is this southbound off ramp going to be a ‘permanent’ closure? Is there a [...]

By | July 1st, 2013|6 Comments

Hwy 12 news: Extra enforcement at Fulton Road and Farmers Lane work

On either ends of Santa Rosa, Highway 12 will be in the spotlight this week. Santa Rosa police will be monitoring one of the city’s most collision-prone intersections, Fulton Road at Highway 12, which  last year was tied for sixth place with 7 collisions. As part of a weekly Monday through [...]

By | June 16th, 2013|0 Comments

Your 101/Airport Blvd. questions answered

Work started last night on the new interchange at Airport Blvd. and Highway 101, and readers have sent a lot of questions. Answers are coming in a few at a time. Here's what we learned today from Rob Sprinkle, Santa Rosa traffic engineer, and  Tom O'Kane, deputy director of Sonoma [...]

By | June 4th, 2013|0 Comments

Updated: Anchors aweigh on Airport Blvd. construction

After nearly a decade of planning, construction begins Monday, June 3, on the expanded and redesigned freeway interchange at Airport Boulevard, north of Santa Rosa. Expect construction detours to begin Monday, as the northbound loop off-ramp at Airport Boulevard is permanently closed. Traffic will be detoured to the Fulton Road [...]

By | May 30th, 2013|8 Comments

Look at what’s ahead for Airport Blvd.

Real construction work won't begin until June 3 on the new Airport Boulevard interchange off Highway 101 north of Santa Rosa, but Caltrans has released images of the design and the proposed detours. Take a look at what is planned for the project that will be with us until late [...]

By | May 2nd, 2013|10 Comments

Mailbag: ‘Children’ in crosswalks, annoying blue headlights and emergency vehicles without sirens

How do you define "children" in school zones? Are those harsh blue headlights legal? When must emergency vehicles use their sirens? The answers to these reader questions follow. When are "children" present? I frequently drive Fulton Road past Piner High School. There is signage that says it's a 25 mph [...]

By | April 8th, 2013|7 Comments

Santa Rosa’s 25 dangerous intersections

Planning to drive through the intersection of Stony Point and Sebastopol roads in Santa Rosa? Better be careful. It again ranks No. 1 in the city for highest number of reported collisions. The Roseland-area intersection racked up 16 collisions last year, twice that of 2011 when it tied [...]

By | January 31st, 2013|10 Comments

Highway 12 intersection targeted by SRPD

Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers this coming week will monitor one of the city's most collision-prone intersections --- Fulton Road at Highway 12, which last year was tied for seventh worst with seven collisions. As part of a weekly, Monday through Sunday, special enforcement program, Officer Jeff Adams says officers [...]

By | December 7th, 2012|2 Comments