A collection of comments from Road Warrior readers: Roads department quick in pothole response After reading the many Press Democrat reports regarding the county budget issues and their affect on the Public Works Dept., I would like to report on the response of the Public Works Road Dept. on pothole [...]
Here's a question from a reader: I drive daily from Graton to St. Helena via Mark West Springs Road/Porter Creek Road and am writing in hopes you will bring additional attention to a serious road hazard on Porter Creek Road. I contacted County Roads of Sonoma County and reported this [...]
Caltrans has started a night paving project on Highway 12 in Santa Rosa that will last through about the end of the month. The work is being done from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday from Farmers Lane to Mission Boulevard. Crews are grinding down the pavement this [...]
You might have spotted that big legal ad in last Sunday's paper (Page B11) listing numerous Santa Rosa streets and wondered what it was all about. It was the city's notification that it's added another street to its list of those that commercial vehicles, such as cement trucks, delivery trucks [...]
The Obama administration recently gave a break to local governments in Sonoma County and elsewhere in the nation by moving to drop a deadline for new street signs. The action was welcomed by Santa Rosa's traffic engineer, Robert Sprinkle, who said it will save the city a lot of money. [...]
Here's a question from a Road Warrior reader: I have a question about all these new pedestrian signals popping up the past few years. I’m thinking of the one on Mendocino Ave. in front of the JC at the moment, but I think my question applies to all of them. [...]
For the second year in a row, Sebastopol Road at Stony Point Road is Santa Rosa's most dangerous intersection with 20 collisions there in 2010. That's one crash more than in 2009, according to Santa Rosa police statistics, which include only collisions where officers took reports. They don't [...]
Santa Rosa officials have a new weapon in their battle against traffic congestion: Live video cameras. Crews have been installing cameras across the city, recently at Mendocino Avenue and Steele Lane, that allow traffic officials to tap into a video feed to check on traffic flow. Traffic Engineer [...]
You see it all the time: A pedestrian waiting to cross a street will push the crosswalk button, wait, push it again and even a bunch of times as he/she tires of waiting. Does that do any good? No. "Pressing it more times doesn't do anything more than pressing it [...]
You have questions, we'll try to get the answers for you. Here's one from a reader: Question: I wonder why the intersection of Seventh Street and Mendocino Avenue does not have a green arrow light for left turns. Heading east; pretty bad. When one is crossing the street going west, [...]