SOSroads, a group lobbying for better road maintenance in Sonoma County, is looking for your comments on how the county should finance improvements. The group, which is about a year and a half old, is conducting an online survey with some general questions but particularly includes questions on possible ways [...]
The number of tickets written by CHP officers in Sonoma County dropped by more than 20 percent and traffic crashes fell by nearly 15 percent last year compared to 2011, according to the latest statistics. The 27,259 tickets written by the local CHP, which covers Sonoma County except for part [...]
Here are some comments from Road Warrior readers: Why not better traffic lights? About 6 years ago, I moved from a town of about half a million people to Santa Rosa, but I still travel around the country quite a bit for work. I've noticed that many cities only use protected left-turn [...]
Sonoma County's Avoid the 13 anti-DUI task force plans two DUI/license checkpoints on Friday night in Petaluma. The locations aren't being disclosed by the task force, in which all of the county's police agencies participate, but they'll be from 7 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday. The checkpoints are part [...]
Every available CHP officer, including those in Sonoma County, will be on patrol for the long Christmas holiday weekend, looking particularly for drunken drivers. Called the “Maximum Enforcement Period,” it's one of several the CHP holds during the year to get drunks off the road during certain holidays and to [...]
Sonoma County police officers for 19 days will be cracking down on DUI drivers. The county's Avoid the 13 anti-DUI task force will begin its annual, stepped-up Christmas-New Year's enforcement on Friday, with a DUI/license checkpoint at an undisclosed location. The checkpoint will be one of four the task force [...]
Sonoma County's roads department at 5:20 p.m. Friday listed these roads affected by the storm. If you know of other roads affected, leave a comment below and we'll post it. --Arroyo Road in Sonoma, down tree removed but still closed because PG&E replacing power pole and lines. --Canyon [...]
Plenty of Road Warrior readers write in to tell us how bad Sonoma County's roads are. Now, you have a chance to ask county officials what they plan to do to fix them. From 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, county Supervisors Shirlee Zane and David Rabbitt and Public Works Director [...]
It's only about a year old, but the group Save Our Sonoma Roads is making headlines and scoring some success. Last Tuesday, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approved spending $6.5 million on repairs for 13.2 miles of roads --- a feat that SOS Roads takes some credit for. Last [...]
The Pumpkin Patch Crawl is gone, and we have Caltrans to thank for the treat. It's been a Halloween tradition in Sonoma County for nearly 20 years. A pumpkin patch and corn maze would come into their glory every fall along Highway 101 in north Petaluma, attracting thousands of people [...]