In an apparent effort to reach out to residents unhappy with Caltrans' work last summer, the agency on Tuesday night will hold an information meeting in Middletown to explain two road projects being done this summer. One project -- flashing warning lights on Highway 29 at Hartmann Road in Hidden [...]
With a flower memorial to the latest fatal crash victim erected just feet away, a construction crew has started work to improve safety on Highway 29 at Hartmann Road in Lake County's Hidden Valley Lake subdivision. Caltrans' $290,000 project calls for the installation of traffic-activated flashing beacons that will warn [...]
The state Transportation Commission last week approved several road projects for Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties, with the biggest chunk being $45 million to replace the Highway 101 bridges over the Petaluma River with wider spans to allow car-pool lanes. Click here to read about that. Among the other projects [...]
Caltrans today will begin a repaving project on Highway 20 in Lake County from Highway 53 just east of Clearlake Oaks to the North Fork Cache Creek Bridge, about six miles away, and traffic delays are expected. The project will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, with one-way traffic [...]
Caltrans has begun improving a stretch of Highway 53 in Lake County that has been the scene of many accidents over the years. The project, which had been delayed a few months by last year’s budget paralysis, will run from just south of 40th Avenue in Clearlake to Highway 20. [...]
Caltrans is warning of 20-minute delays next week as crews begin to install rumble strips on Highway 20 in Mendocino and Lake counties. The work will be 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and will require intermittent, one-way traffic control. The project goes from the eastern Cold Creek [...]
California's bridges are in a sorry state, with those in Lake and Sonoma counties particularly so, according to an analysis by a national transportation advocacy group. Transportation for America, a Washington-based group, issued a report recently that said 12.8 percent, or 3,135, of California's 24.542 were structurally deficient. The state [...]
Think there's a lot of cars and trucks on the road in Sonoma County? You're right. As of Dec. 31, 306,556 cars were registered in Sonoma County, according to the DMV. There also were 107,071 commercial vehicles -- from pickups to big rigs -- and 17,066 motorcycles, for a total [...]
The state Transportation Commission this week agreed to spend nearly $17.6 million this summer to repave about 33 miles of Highways 29 and 175 in Lake and Mendocino counties, most of which will go to fix last summer's problem-plagued chip-seal work that cost $2.1 million. In Mendocino County, Highway 175 [...]
Going for a ride this weekend on your motorcycle? Enjoy, but be on your best behavior in Lake County. The CHP there has received a federal grant via the state Office of Traffic Safety to have two officers on overtime target possible DUIs and traffic violations, particularly among motorcyclists, on [...]