Caltrans announced it's planning road work, weather permitting, that likely will cause some traffic delays in Lake and Mendocino counties: LAKE COUNTY --Highway 20, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, routine maintenance near Sulfur Bank Drive. One-way traffic control and possible 10-minute traffic delays. --Highway 20, 8 a.m. to 3 [...]
One of Lake County’s most dangerous intersections is being changed Monday. The intersection of Highway 29 and Hartmann Road in Hidden Valley will become a three-way stop. Now, there’s only a stop sign at Hartmann. Three people have been killed in collisions at the intersection in the last 17 months. [...]
A long awaited repaving of Highway 29 in Lake County is set to start today. Crews will begin at Spruce Grove Road in Hidden Valley and work their way west toward the Napa County line. Work hours today will be 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and then beginning Sunday work [...]
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 [...]
Caltrans is stepping up safety at an intersection in Lake County after three people were killed in collisions there in the last 14 months. Initially, Caltrans planned to install flashing beacons at Highway 29 and Hartmann Road in Hidden Valley Lake but now plans to turn the intersection into a [...]
In an apparent effort to reach out to residents unhappy with Caltrans' work last summer, the agency on Tuesday night will hold an information meeting in Middletown to explain two road projects being done this summer. One project -- flashing warning lights on Highway 29 at Hartmann Road in Hidden [...]
With a flower memorial to the latest fatal crash victim erected just feet away, a construction crew has started work to improve safety on Highway 29 at Hartmann Road in Lake County's Hidden Valley Lake subdivision. Caltrans' $290,000 project calls for the installation of traffic-activated flashing beacons that will warn [...]
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 [...]
Construction crews will be spending all summer and part of the fall redoing Highway 29 over Mount St. Helena, and the work is making the drive along the twisting route even more dangerous. Caltrans initially indicated the $5 million project would last only three weeks but now says the work [...]
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," [...]