Santa Rosa Ave. gets extra police attention
Kawana Springs intersection city's fifth most dangerous.
Santa Rosa’s 25 dangerous intersections
Planning to drive through the intersection of Stony Point and Sebastopol roads in Santa Rosa? Better be careful. It again ranks No. 1 in the city for highest number of reported collisions. The Roseland-area intersection racked up 16 collisions last year, twice that of 2011 when it tied [...]
SRPD targets collision-prone intersection
Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers this coming week will monitor one of the city's most collision-prone intersection --- Santa Rosa Avenue at Hearn Avenue, which last year was tied for second with 13 collisions. As part of a weekly, Monday through Sunday, special enforcement program, Officer Jeff Adams says officers [...]
Mailbag: Can you use carpool lanes on onramps?
Here's a question from a Road Warrior reader: When going northbound on Santa Rosa Avenue and entering the turn lane at Yolanda to get on to northbound 101 there are two turn lanes. If you are in the left most turn lane, are you supposed to turn into the middle [...]
Highway 1, 101, 121, 128 lane closures this week
Caltrans announced the following lane closures for this week: Highway 1 --One-way traffic control from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday from Shotgun Point and Sea Walk Drive on the northern Sonoma County coast for paving and striping work. Highway 101 --Various lanes closed from Rohnert Park Expressway [...]
South Santa Rosa intersection targeted by police
Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers this coming week will monitor one of the city's most collision-prone intersections --Baker Avenue at Santa Rosa Avenue, which last year was tied for fifth worst with nine collisions. As part of a weekly, Monday through Sunday, special enforcement program, Officer Jeff Adams says officers [...]
Mailbag: Bicyclists, pedestrians getting tickets; Todd Road merging
Here are questions from Road Warrior readers: Adrienne wrote in to report that she had read on KRCB radio's Facebook page an account of a Santa Rosa police officer stopping bicyclists on Humboldt Avenue for not coming to a complete stop at stop signs. According to the posting, the officer [...]
Latest update on Highway 101, lane closures
For Highway 101 drivers, relief is almost here. Caltrans is continuing to do finishing work on the highway between Santa Rosa Avenue and Rohnert Park Expressway, and Caltrans spokesman Adam Priest says the third lane is expected to be open by the end of this month or early September. But [...]
More drivers trying to beat the red light
I’ve heard people joke that a green light means go, a yellow light means go faster and a red light means stop. But I don’t think it’s a joke any longer: More people seem to be trying to beat red lights and they’re stepping on the gas when the light [...]
2nd south Santa Rosa intersection under police watch
Santa Rosa motorcycle police officers this coming week will monitor one of the city's most dangerous intersections -- Santa Rosa Avenue at Hearn Avenue, which last year was tied for second with 13 collisions. Last week, just a block away, police were keeping an eye out for violators across Highway [...]