Caltrans' road work will force one lane of Highway 121 to be closed at Highway 12 south of Sonoma every night this week. The one-way traffic control will be from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night this week, starting Monday night. The road work also will narrow the open [...]
With more carpool lanes being built along Highway 101 in Sonoma County, we've been wondering how many people carpool and use the lanes. Here are some facts and figures we've come across: Carpooling remains at historic lows The [...]
Here are Santa Rosa's most dangerous intersections, based on the number of collisions at each in 2011 as reported by the Santa Rosa Police Department. Each week during the year, Santa Rosa motorcycle officers typically spend part of their day at one of these intersections, looking for traffic violators, with [...]
There's a new No. 1 in Santa Rosa when it comes to being the city's most dangerous intersection: Highway 12 at Mission Boulevard. With 18 reported collisions last year, it dethroned Stony Point Road at Sebastopol Road, which had been the city's most collision-prone intersection for two [...]
A Road Warrior reader writes in: Wondering if Calistoga Road from Montecito to Highway 12 is slated for repaving in near future? Sure needs it. Mission and Middle Rincon done recently. Pat The answer comes from Peter Dodsworth of Santa Rosa's materials engineering office. And that's: No. "It's not on [...]
Santa Rosa police officers this week will monitor the city's second most dangerous intersection -- Highway 12 at Mission Boulevard, which last year had 17 traffic collisions. As part of a weekly special enforcement program, officers particularly will be looking for drivers not wearing seat belts, who are illegally using [...]
About a half-dozen CHP officers targeted speeders Friday morning on Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, handing out 24 tickets in 90 minutes. CHP spokesman Jon Sloat said in a statement that drivers going 80 mph and faster were stopped, with the fastest violator tooling down the wet road at 94 [...]
Napa County's blood alley is on its way to being fixed. The state Transportation Commission last week approved more than $130 million to widen Highway 12 to four lanes with a median barrier from Highway 29 to basically Interstate 80. That stretch also is called Jameson Canyon Road, and it's [...]
One-way traffic controls will be in effect as crews will be grinding out and repaving deteriorating sections of Highway 29 in Napa County starting Sunday night and continuing through basically the rest of the month. The work will be 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Friday, with the work [...]
The final leg of Caltrans' Mission Bell project is set for San Rafael to Sonoma, with 40 bells lining Highways 101, 37, 12 and 121. The state Transportation Commission recently approved $161,000 for the manufacture and installation of the bells. The state erected the first bells in 1906 [...]