Today’s Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018

District:           05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa     Cruz Counties

Contact:          Susana Z Cruz (bilingual) or Colin Jones

Phone:            (805) 549-3138 or 549-3189

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CALTRANS TO PERFORM MAINTENANCE PAVIG ON STATE ROUTE 1 SOUTH OF CARMEL HIGHLANDS STARTING MONDAY

MONTEREY COUNTY – Caltrans will perform highway pavement maintenance on State Route 1 south of Carmel Highlands for four days beginning Monday, June 18. Motorists can expect one-way reversing traffic control from 8 am until 2 pm in the following locations:

• Southbound Hwy. 1 at Granite Creek, south of Carmel Highlands on Monday, June 18.
• Northbound Hwy. 1 just north of Garrapata Creek, south of Carmel Highlands on Tuesday, June 19.
• Northbound Hwy. 1 north of Garrapata Creek, south of Carmel Highlands on Wednesday, June 20.
• Northbound Hwy. 1 just south of Granite Creek, south of Carmel Highlands on Thursday, June 21.

There will be electronic message boards alerting the public of these lane closures and traffic control.  The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will be present to ensure a safe environment for everyone.  Motorists can expect delays not to exceed 10 minutes.

This work will be performed by the Caltrans Monterey Maintenance team resulting in a Smooth ride for all travelers.

Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when driving through highway work zones.

For more information on this project and for traffic updates on other Caltrans projects in

Monterey County, residents can call the District 5 toll free number at 1-831-372-0862 or

Can visit our website at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/paffairs/release.htm#mon

Susana Z. Cruz

Caltrans District 5

Public Information Officer

FHL Police were stopping people at the intersection of Nacimiento and Mission and not allowing west bound traffic, at least as of 11:30 am, per reports and what we witnessed as we passed by. Many were turn around and forced to go all the way around to get home – that is a long a$$ way!!

We were stopped around 11:30 on the West side of Stoney Valley for this burn out. We were held up for about 20 minutes or so – in the sun – in 96º temps. These are some of the photos I took. I can see why it was closed. The fire was right up to the road and the firefighters were IN the road. We were escorted.

I’ve tried to upload the sequence, but my blog goes into cardiac arrest when I try to upload 18 photos. So here are a couple. More later, I have to convert some “live” shots to regular photos, first.