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 [...]
The state Transportation Commission last week approved several road projects for Lake, Mendocino and Sonoma counties, with the biggest chunk being $45 million to replace the Highway 101 bridges over the Petaluma River with wider spans to allow car-pool lanes. Click here to read about that. Among the other projects [...]
Caltrans this week is going to make a statement about litter. Starting today, crews in Sonoma County and throughout the Bay Area will be picking up litter along highways and then piling the collection bags at safe, "strategic locations along the highways to demonstrate that litter is a continuing problem," [...]
You almost always can count on the same stretches of roads across the county to flood during a heavy rainstorm, so here's a list of roads to avoid during today's storm and future gully washers. According to the CHP and Sonoma County roads department, they're either flooded already, have standing [...]
Traffic on Highway 12 south of Sonoma will be stopped for short periods Wednesday to allow removal of trees, Caltrans says. The work will start Wednesday morning and will involve cutting down 20 trees at or near the Schell-Vista fire station at Highways 12 and 121. Caltrans said 15 of [...]
Here are 24 intersections in Santa Rosa where you want to be particularly careful because, for one reason or the other, they had the most collisions last year: No. 1: Sebastopol Road at Stony Point Road, with 20 collisions in 2010 compared to 19 in 2009. It ranked No. 1 [...]
How many people are driving illegally in the car pool lanes on Highway 101? Way too many. In 2009, the CHP gave out 1,667 tickets to suspected car-pool violators, up from 2008's count of 1,458. And that's just the ones who got caught. And it was before the [...]
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, [...]
Caltrans today plans to close the left southbound lane of Highway 101 from Highway 12 to Steele Lane in Santa Rosa to allow crews to repair drainage inlets. The lane will be closed 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Caltrans said. Similar north and southbound closures will occur over the next [...]
A few weeks ago, we answered a reader's questions about the mound of dirt at Airport Boulevard and Highway 101 north of Santa Rosa. That prompted another reader to ask about the pile of dirt at Highway 12 and Farmers Lane. What's it for? Caltrans spokesman Bob Haus says the [...]