As Highway 101 is growing wider in Cotati, it's also getting taller. New overpasses being built at Highway 116 and West Railroad Avenue are several feet higher than the old ones, which will be torn down and rebuilt higher as well. "The two new overpasses there are being raised just [...]
Traffic on Highway 101 must be getting pretty bad because metering lights are in our future. Caltrans has been installing metering lights -- basically stop-and-go lights that regulate the flow of traffic onto freeways -- in Rohnert Park and along the newly widened stretch of 101 from Santa [...]
Caltrans' hopes of holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony officially declaring completed the Santa Rosa-to-Windsor widening of Highway 101 has slipped to early November. Spokesman Bob Haus said trouble in scheduling subcontractors to finish their work delayed the official completion. In September, he said Caltrans was shooting for an early October ceremony. [...]
Q: When there are two right-turn-only lanes, is it legal to turn right on a red light if you are in the left (or outer) lane (as at Baker and Santa Rosa Ave, where two lanes turn right—south bound—near Costco)? A: Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Doug Schlief says yes -- [...]