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Mailbag: Can you ride your bike on 101?

Here's a question from a reader with an answer from the CHP: QUESTION: As you likely know, a sinkhole on Asti Road between Zanzi Lane and Old Post Office Road has closed the road for the foreseeable future. I discovered this while cycling south from Cloverdale on Asti toward Geyserville, [...]

By | January 11th, 2011|14 Comments

Mailbag: What’s up with 101 in Ukiah?

Here's an inquiry from a Road Warrior reader: Can you find out what the status is of the work on 101 in the Ukiah area? Please tell me they are coming back to do the southbound #2 lane from Highway 20 to Burke Hill? And while I'm at it, they [...]

By | January 4th, 2011|1 Comment

Mailbag: Why is 101 so rough in Ukiah?

Question: The pavement repair project in Highway 101 in Ukiah is well under way, with several miles of new sections of concrete in the northbound slow lane. The patches are all various lengths from a few feet to a couple of hundred feet in length. When you drive over these [...]

By | October 25th, 2010|2 Comments

Caltrans speeding up fix for Hwy. 29

After being confronted with continued community outrage, Caltrans is speeding up its plan to fix a chip sealing project gone bad in the Middletown area at a cost of millions. Caltrans announced Thursday that next summer it would repave a 12-mile stretch of Highway 29 from the Lake County line [...]

By | October 21st, 2010|4 Comments

Public outcry to prompt Hwys. 29, 175 fixes

After a public outcry, Caltrans is speeding up plans to spend millions to repave stretches of Highways 29 and 175 in Lake County that were chip sealed just this past summer at a cost of $2.1 million but left drivers fuming over the rough results. "The chip seal project, which [...]

By | September 24th, 2010|3 Comments

Major Highway 101 repairs starting in Ukiah

Construction crews Monday will start a $10.4 million project to repair Highway 101 from south of Ukiah to just north of West Road in Redwood Valley. Workers initially will repave the highway's shoulders bordering the median from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. Traffic will be restricted to one lane [...]

By | August 27th, 2010|0 Comments

Budget crisis threatens Lake, Mendocino road projects

Caltrans is warning that the state budget stalemate may delay dozens of highway projects around the state, including ones in Lake and Mendocino counties. No Sonoma County project was on a list of affected road work. In Lake County, a plan to improve Highway 53 from Clearlake to Highway 20 [...]

By | August 16th, 2010|1 Comment

Highway 101 in Ukiah to be upgraded

By late August or early September construction crews should be replacing deteriorating sections of Highway 101 in Ukiah as part of a $10.4 million project. Caltrans announced Wednesday that crews will rip out failing concrete sections between the south Ukiah exit and just north of West Road in Redwood Valley [...]

By | July 29th, 2010|1 Comment

Hwy. 101 changes in Ukiah

Driving through Ukiah on Highway 101 will be a little different today. Caltrans crews are to be out this morning putting up three signs that will give northbound drivers new instructions to help speed the flow of traffic through Ukiah. Two signs -- one a quarter-mile south of Talmage Road [...]

By | May 19th, 2010|3 Comments

Be careful going through Lake County to Shasta or …

Here's an alert if you're planning to drive to Clearlake to just cut through Lake County on your way to the Central Valley, Shasta or wherever. Watch out for where Highway 52 intersects with Olympic Drive in Clearlake. It used to be that only traffic on Olympic Drive had to [...]

By | April 30th, 2010|0 Comments