More about how to avoid traffic tickets You wrote earlier that vehicles must actually leave the block after two hours to avoid tickets in two-hour free parking zones. I would be curious to see a followup on how parking people enforce that – it would seem to require either a [...]
We're changing drivers at the Road Warrior blog. After nearly three years of writing the column -- and 29 years at The Press Democrat -- I'm retiring on Monday and Linda Castrone, editor of The Press Democrat's Towns section, will take over Tuesday. She'll do an excellent job. The column [...]
Here's a question from a reader: I've noticed these signs popping up all over the place in the middle of crosswalks. They are narrow tall signs mounted to the street that say yield to pedestrians. One spot I have noticed them is at the crosswalk at Old Redwood [...]
Potholes are disappearing by the tens of thousands around Sonoma County, and we owe it to the easy winter. That statement may sound strange, but the little rain so far this winter has allowed county roads crews to catch up on pothole repairs. In fact, in the last six months [...]
The Sonoma County roads department has developed color-coded maps showing the conditions -- from excellent to failing -- of all of the roads it is responsible for. If you live on a county-maintained road, you can find it below in one of these maps. Conditions of roads maintained by Caltrans [...]
It's a common gripe among readers' emails to the Road Warrior: My road is full of potholes; when is the county going to pave it? For example: --Point Cabrillo Drive, one continuous pothole, has not been paved in 40 years, yet carries traffic to a central tourist attraction -- the [...]
For drivers caught up in today's closure of Highway 101 in Cotati, there's some relief coming. By 4 p.m. Thursday, the Sonoma County roads department expects to have reopened Adobe Road, which has been closed intermittently for road work. Construction crews have been working on repaving Adobe Road between Penngrove [...]
This year's worst road in Sonoma County is Lichau Road, a scenic, country route that winds up into the hills east of Rohnert Park. At least that's the verdict of Road Warrior readers who responded to our second annual poll last month, voting for a total of 87 [...]