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Anti-DUI task force gets $300,000

Sonoma County's anti-DUI campaign will continue after the state awarded a $300,000 grant for the Avoid the 13 task force. The task force, which includes all police agencies in the county and is coordinated by Petaluma police, had a three-year grant of $659,000 that ended Sept. 30. The money pays [...]

By | November 3rd, 2011|12 Comments

$66 million for school safety

Caltrans last week awarded a total of $66 million to cities and counties across the state for projects to make it safer for students to walk or ride their bikes to school. Nearly $2 million was designated for school safety projects in Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Caltrans spokesman Phil [...]

By | October 22nd, 2011|2 Comments

Green bike lanes in Windsor

Some bike lanes in Windsor have gone green -- literally. Over the summer, the town painted bike lanes on both sides of Old Redwood Highway for a block or so on either side of Highway 101. Alejandro Perez, the town's associate civil engineer, said the lanes were painted [...]

By | October 19th, 2011|13 Comments

Mailbag: Drug crackdown on Hwy. 101

We've received a few emails lately from readers asking why they're seeing Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park and Petaluma police stopping motorists along Highway 101 from Windsor north of Cloverdale. For example, JD wrote in: "I am a courier for a pharmacy and have seen Santa Rosa police squad cars pulling [...]

By | October 7th, 2011|34 Comments

Hwy. 101 sign mystery solved

The mystery over a Highway 101 traffic alert sign in Windsor has been solved. After a couple of Road Warrior readers recently reported seeing the sign on southbound 101 just south of downtown Windsor and noting that the 840 AM radio station yielded only static, we called Caltrans. [...]

By | August 9th, 2011|16 Comments

Watch out for Vineman congestion

If you're out and about Sunday, watch out for the 2,000-plus competitors running and bicycling in the 21st Avia Vineman Ironman 70.3 triathlon, which used to be called the Half Vineman. Some traffic delays are likely. The bike course starts in Guerneville, goes to Healdsburg via Westside Road and Geyserville [...]

By | July 15th, 2011|1 Comment

Bay Area annual pothole report

Roads maintained by Sonoma County no longer are the worst in the Bay Area -- they're second worse. In its annual pothole report, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission reported today that the county roads last year had a pavement condition index of 45, which is rated as poor. But [...]

By | June 22nd, 2011|4 Comments

Tickets plunge in Cotati, Rohnert Park, jump in Windsor

The number of traffic tickets issued last year by police in Cotati and Rohnert Park dropped by more than half while the number in Windsor soared, according to Sonoma County traffic court records. A total of 80,395 tickets in 2010 were filed for processing with the court, up from 77,351 [...]

By | June 14th, 2011|4 Comments

Sebastopol ranks high in fatal/injury collisions

Sebastopol again ranks near the top in the state for fatal/injury collisions among cities of comparable size, according to the latest figures from the state Office of Traffic Safety. For 2009, Sebastopol ranked second out of 70 cities of 2,500 to 10,000 people with 67 fatal/injury collisions. Sonora, near Yosemite, [...]

By | January 19th, 2011|1 Comment

Santa comes early for Santa Rosa-Windsor drivers

Caltrans played Santa today to Sonoma County drivers and delivered a long-awaited gift: Raising the speed limit between Santa Rosa and Windsor on Highway 101 to 65 mph. The limit had been lowered to 55 for the last two years during a $120 million construction project to widen Highway 101 [...]

By | November 30th, 2010|5 Comments