The North Coast's highways are a bit cleaner these days, especially Highway 53 in Lake County. The highway is only about 7.5 miles long, from Lower Lake to Clearlake Oaks. But Caltrans considers it the dirtiest highway in Lake and Mendocino counties. So last Thursday, which was designated [...]
Caltrans has started building a roundabout on Highway 20 at Nice-Lucerne Cutoff Road in an attempt to improve safety at the Lake County intersection. A Caltrans statement said the collision rate at the intersection near Nice is more than five times the statewide average for similar intersections. [...]
Traffic crashes rose last year, but fatalities dropped as did tickets and DUI arrests by the Sonoma County CHP, according to the latest statistics. A total of 2,485 crashes were investigated by the local CHP, which covers Sonoma County except for part of the Sonoma Valley. That's up from 2,405 [...]
Caltrans today will hold an open house in Upper Lake to present information about two alternatives to improve safety at the intersection of Highways 20 and 29: Traffic lights or a roundabout. "The project is needed because the collision rate at the intersection is 3.7 times greater than the statewide [...]
Caltrans announced it's planning road work, weather permitting, that likely will cause some traffic delays in Lake and Mendocino counties: LAKE COUNTY --Highway 20, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, routine maintenance near Sulfur Bank Drive. One-way traffic control and possible 10-minute traffic delays. --Highway 20, 8 a.m. to 3 [...]
The Nice-Lucerne Cutoff, a key road in Lake County, will be closed for the next several days, starting today, to allow county crews to repair sections of the battered road. The road will be closed 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. -- open on the weekend -- from Lakeshore Boulevard to [...]
One of Lake County’s most dangerous intersections is being changed Monday. The intersection of Highway 29 and Hartmann Road in Hidden Valley will become a three-way stop. Now, there’s only a stop sign at Hartmann. Three people have been killed in collisions at the intersection in the last 17 months. [...]
The CHP will hold a DUI checkpoint Friday night in Lake County. The checkpoint will be 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday near Highways 53 and 29 in Lower Lake. Officers plan to check every driver who passes through the checkpoint. Follow the Road Warrior on Twitter at @PDRoadWarrior
A long awaited repaving of Highway 29 in Lake County is set to start today. Crews will begin at Spruce Grove Road in Hidden Valley and work their way west toward the Napa County line. Work hours today will be 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and then beginning Sunday work [...]
Caltrans is stepping up safety at an intersection in Lake County after three people were killed in collisions there in the last 14 months. Initially, Caltrans planned to install flashing beacons at Highway 29 and Hartmann Road in Hidden Valley Lake but now plans to turn the intersection into a [...]