Caltrans this week is going to make a statement about litter. Starting today, crews in Sonoma County and throughout the Bay Area will be picking up litter along highways and then piling the collection bags at safe, "strategic locations along the highways to demonstrate that litter is a continuing problem," [...]
Caltrans announced this afternoon that it's delaying tonight's expected traffic shift on northbound Highway 101 in Cotati because of this week's rains, and other lane shifts also are being pushed back. Northbound traffic now is scheduled to shift lanes Monday night, moving onto a new overpass over Highway 116 in [...]
Starting late next week, there will be lane changes on Highway 101 as construction crews move along in widening the road in Rohnert Park and Cotati, according to the CHP. Dates are tentative. --Highway 101 at Highway 116, on the night of June 2 northbound traffic will switch to the [...]
Caltrans has big plans next month for drivers going through the Rohnert Park-Cotati construction zone on Highway 101. Spokesman Robert Haus said the exact dates aren't pinned down but: --At Railroad Avenue in Cotati, southbound 101 traffic will be shifted to the right onto a new overpass, while northbound will [...]
Highway construction season is back in swing in Sonoma County, so that means Caltrans is getting busy with lane closures. Here are this week's closures, according to Caltrans: --Highway 1, two miles south of the Russian River Bridge, one-way traffic control 24/7 for storm damage repair. --Highway 116, just east [...]
You almost always can count on the same stretches of roads across the county to flood during a heavy rainstorm, so here's a list of roads to avoid during today's storm and future gully washers. According to the CHP and Sonoma County roads department, they're either flooded already, have standing [...]
The goal of the radar-detection trailer on southbound Highway 101 south of Highway 116 is to remind drivers to watch their speed in the construction zone. But on Tuesday everyone was going 88 mph -- sports cars, hybrids, big rigs, buses, everyone -- at least according to the radar sign. [...]
Sebastopol again ranks near the top in the state for fatal/injury collisions among cities of comparable size, according to the latest figures from the state Office of Traffic Safety. For 2009, Sebastopol ranked second out of 70 cities of 2,500 to 10,000 people with 67 fatal/injury collisions. Sonora, near Yosemite, [...]
Caltrans plans to close Highway 116 and Railroad Avenue that run under Highway 101 on Thursday and Friday nights to allow construction crews to work on new overpasses as part of the widening of Highway 101. Both stretches will be closed 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. the next day.
Today and Friday, Caltrans is closing one lane of Highway 116 in each direction under Highway 101 in Cotati for falsework installation as crews work on building a new 101 overpass. The lanes will be closed 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Caltrans said if crews aren’t able to finish the [...]