Nightmare at Bixby Bridge in Big Sur

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• Sounds like this spot needs a dedicated CHP right there to ticket them immediately and send them down the road. I would hope the tickets given out should pay for the cost of the extra personnel!

  • Couldn’t agree more.

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• Kate, it's amazing how often this is happening yet, no one is there to enforce these violations!!

  • Andrew, that is one of the many problems we face down here, and ABSOLuTELY nothing is being done to correct it.

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• Point Lobos is just as bad since State Park has made a 200+ parking lot out of Highway 1.

  • But at Point Lobos they are only going “over” the fog line, Not actually stopping in the middle of the road and parking.

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• This had better be cleared up by the time I head to the Henry Miller Library for their short film festival's Grand Finalé tonight! I'd hate to have to start pushing cars over the edge to get by.

• Sadly, this is nothing new. Visitors park their cars on the highway at Soberanes too and take a walk, take pictures, and then slowly stroll back. Another accident waiting to happen is the blind corner at Soberanes as you approach from the South. Folks should not be allowed to park on the east side of the highway in a small pullout across from the unsightly set of stairs that were recently built on the west side. Have seen so many near misses there, not just with pedestrians but also when the vehicles pull out. And yesterday, despite the "No Parking" signs at Point Lobos, a whole line of cars parked next to the entrance on the west side. It will take more law enforcement to keep up with all of this. Regarding the back up, red taillights could be seen south of Soberanes as late as 8:45 PM last night. Lots of visitors had a long trip back home or to their hotel. I also saw a man getting out of his car, his pants soaking wet. I think he was not able to make it to a restroom and was stuck in traffic. We really need to figure something out. This is not good for anyone.

• Just another day w/ Tourista No-Cluio on the prowl...

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• Had a couple friends tell me it took them 20 minutes just to get through Bixby Bridge area yesterday on their way to work. It was less than 10 years ago that most people drove over Bixby and didn’t even notice they were on a bridge. Social media and Monterey Film Commission have now made it a bucket list spot with the worst infrastructure of any major attraction in the world!

  • Course, you are right, Marcus. I well remember the days when the parking area was empty.

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• Kate, I thought a shuttle service would be starting from Rancho Canada State Park by now and this would be another spot for a surplus of cars that could park there while sightseeing in Big Sur and more.. Any updates?

  • No. I think the shuttle at Rancho Canada SP was for Point Lobos, and that will start as a pilot project for summer 2019.

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• I’ll sign the petition. 😉

  This is a problem of the entitled generations. We locals with a memory pre-1990 would have never parked along Big Sur Highway . . . except in one of the turnouts.

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• Ahh, it looks like Rancho Canada Park is under the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District.. like Corona, and Garland RP, headslap.