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Death temporarily halts Caltrans maintenance

Caltrans on Monday halted all routine highway maintenance statewide after a Caltrans worker was struck and killed while picking up litter along a San Diego freeway. Richard Gonzalez, 52, of San Ysidro was the third Caltrans worker killed on the job in 48 days -- the most ever in such [...]

By | June 20th, 2011|2 Comments

Hwy. 20 work to cause delays

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 [...]

By | June 20th, 2011|1 Comment

Fort Bragg’s $4.4 million roundabout

After more than four years of planning and preparation at a cost of about $2.8 million, Caltrans is ready to break ground to build a roundabout on Highway 1 just south of Fort Bragg. Construction was estimated at $1.6 million, for a total cost of $4.4 million, but last week [...]

By | May 18th, 2011|17 Comments

Partial reopening of Humboldt Hwy. 101 next week

Highway 101 in southern Humboldt County is expected to reopen Monday for 12 hours after a massive mudslide closed the road earlier this week. The slide occurred Wednesday about four miles north of Garberville and prompted officials to close area schools until the highway can be reopened. Caltrans [...]

By | April 1st, 2011|0 Comments

Hwy. 101 closed in Humboldt

Highway 101 about four miles north of Garberville in Humboldt County will be closed for at least two or three days after a massive mudslide Wednesday morning blocked the road and buckled the pavement. The slide occurred at 9:20 a.m. and covered all four lanes of the highway, [...]

By | March 30th, 2011|13 Comments

$17.6 million repaving of Hwys. 29, 175 OK’d

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 [...]

By | March 25th, 2011|3 Comments

Slide cuts Hwy. 101 to 2 lanes north of Cloverdale

A sliding hillside prompted Caltrans today to reduce Highway 101 to one lane in each direction about five miles north of the Sonoma County line in Mendocino County, just north of an area known as Squaw Rock. The speed limit for the stretch through the slide zone was cut to [...]

By | March 23rd, 2011|5 Comments

Hwy. 101 repairs getting under way

Once again the unstable clay soil of the Willits Grade north of Ukiah is bedeviling Highway 101 and Caltrans engineers, but this time they hope they can beat it. "Caltrans has been fighting it for many years," with construction crews regularly fixing slipouts and other problems on the [...]

By | March 1st, 2011|5 Comments

Emergency repairs on Highway 101

Caltrans starting Monday will restrict traffic to one lane in both directions on a stretch of Highway 101 between Ukiah and Willits because of emergency work to repair a slipout. For now, only southbound traffic is down to one lane on the 2.1-mile stretch of 101, which is on the [...]

By | February 26th, 2011|0 Comments

Hwy. 29 fix will have to wait

Caltrans is giving up on its effort to fix a stretch of Highway 29 in Lake County until summer when it will spend millions to pave the road. Spokesman Phil Frisbie Jr. said that after rainstorms and then cold weather canceled two efforts to smooth out a 1,000-foot long stretch [...]

By | January 13th, 2011|1 Comment