NB Highway One backed up 20 miles

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• New ad campaign:

  Visit Big Sur for the scenery! Stay because you're stuck for hours in twenty miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic on a one-lane road leading to a single stoplight.

• CHP needs traffic control at Rio Road until the highway widening project is completed. No good comes from people stranded on the highway for hours. Medical emergencies, bathroom emergencies, potential for road rage...
  Not to mention locals that are shut down.

• Let's just hope no one has any kind of emergency and needs to get to the hospital...

  • Or any sort of mass evacuation...lordy...

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• It was backed up from Rio rd to somewhere between Palo and Rocky Creek Bridge when I came through headed south at 7pm today -- 11 miles or so of fully stopped traffic. I would guess that it took a good 4 hours to get through. This is madness, definitely no chance that an ambulance could have gotten through.

  No CHP anywhere to be seen except one cruiser on a pull off by palo, no traffic control of any kind at Rio.

• Left Highlands at 9:30 at night and sat in 45 min to Rio and that was with a CHP officer waving people through. Astonishing lack of concern by our county officials. Thankful for CHP!

• Also, there MANY cars parked over the white fog lines between pt lobos and bixby.

• Whoever made the decision to do this road work at Rio. right through summer should never be allowed to make another decision in their life. I only hope this is not the new norm for weekends through the summer. Even if its half as bad as last night, its still no good. I have no idea what is going to happen when there is a true emergency and the ambulance needs to get to the hospital. Flying out is not always an option depending on weather conditions. Something will have to be done about it. I just hope it doesn't cost someones life for something to change.

• 2:45 yesterday Sunday it took me 45 minutes to get from Van Ness in the Highlands to Soledad & Munras. When I got home I was astounded to see the traffic. It must have taken those people 3 hrs. to get to Rio Rd. Yikes!

• I drove by Julia Pfeiffer Burn yesterday afternoon and it was ridiculous. Many of the cars parked well over the white line, people doing eight point U turns in the blind curve, people walking in highway, hundreds of people packed like sardines on lookout trail, toilet paper in pullouts, etc.
  It was actually really a sad thing to see what the “new” Big Sur has become.

• https://www.wsj.com/articles/anger-over-tourists-swarming-vacation-hot-spots-sparks-global-backlash-1527000130?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=7

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  • Yes, someone sent me this WSJ article. Poor NZ is struggling, too. The Chinese middle class now account for 80% of the global tourist boon, per this article.