Road work continues this week on Adobe Road from Old Redwood Highway in Penngrove to Corona Road near Petaluma, so avoid it if you can. Today through Wednesday, the Sonoma County Transportation and Public Works Department says, crews will be grinding down the pavement and doing other prep work for [...]
Sonoma County is planning road work this week that will close Adobe Road at one stretch and cause traffic delays at another. From 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, construction crews will be repaving Adobe Road from Old Redwood Highway to Corona Road, and the road is expected [...]
Question: Dear Road Warrior, I had a question about a speed limit sign that used to be just outside of Cotati going south on Old Redwood Highway. The speed limit in Cotati on that stretch is 35 mph, and as soon as you leave the city limits, there was a [...]
For "D," a Santa Rosa school bus driver, it's only a matter of time before a child here is killed or injured by a car whose driver ignores the law and passes a school bus despite its flashing red lights and stop sign. Already, 15 to 20 times a day [...]
The Sonoma County roads department plans the following projects this week: --Bennett Valley Road, from Warm Springs to Sonoma Mountain roads, traffic control at points for brush cutting today and Wednesday. --Calistoga Road, from Santa Rosa to Porter Creek Road, traffic control at points for brush cutting today and Wednesday. [...]
You have questions, the Road Warrior seeks the answers. Here's a question from a reader and a response from the county roads department: Question: I live in the Larkfield Wikiup area of Sonoma County and have watched the repaving work on Old Redwood Hwy from north of the city limits [...]
Editor's note: This story has been revised because Sonoma County officials this afternoon announced chip sealing of Old Redwood Highway has been delayed a week. ----- Crews are suppose to start work Wednesday to prepare Old Redwood Highway from Shiloh Road in Windsor to Santa Rosa for chip sealing. Workers [...]
Sonoma County is -- or soon will be -- working on nine main roads, so you can expect traffic delays on them. Using $6 million in federal stimulus money, the county will be chip sealing these roads: --Dry Creek Road, from Healdsburg to Dry Creek Bridge. --Healdsburg Avenue, from Alexander [...]
Last month, we asked readers to send us their vote for the worst road in Sonoma County. The winner -- perhaps we should call it the loser -- is Irwin Lane, a 1.6-mile, bucolic, rural road west of Santa Rosa, running from Highway 12 north to Hall Road. Next [...]
More construction and car-pool lanes are headed our way. As Staff Writer Brett Wilkison reports, the state Transportation Commission this week approved $22.8 million to widen Highway 101 from Pepper Road at the bottom of the Cotati Grade to just south of Old Redwood Highway in Petaluma. Work on the [...]