TAMC CONE ZONE REPORT

ROAD AND LANE CLOSURES SCHEDULED FOR April 16 – April 22

MONTEREY COUNTY – Here are the major scheduled road and lane closures for Monterey County from Sunday, April 16 through Saturday, April 22 – newest information is in red. Please keep in mind that construction work is weather-dependent.

ALERT:

 HIGHWAY 1 REPAIRS IN BIG SUR SET FOR SATURDAY TO RESULT IN DELAYS 

 Travelers will encounter one-way traffic control with half hour delays from 7 am to 5 pm on Saturday April 15, from just north of Coast Ridge Road at Post Mile 44.59, to south of the Big Sur Bakery at PM 45.23 due to emergency repair work. Despite this emergency repair work, Highway 1 remains open with full access to all coastal businesses for 50 miles from Monterey to the Big Creek Vista area.

Highway 1: Ragged Point Viaduct – Big Creek Vista Point: Long – Term 
There will be full closure of northbound and southbound Highway 1 in San Luis Obispo County between Ragged Point Viaduct and Big Creek Vista Point due to slide removal work. .

Highway 1: Garrapata Creek Bridge: Long – Term
One-way traffic controls will be in place along northbound and southbound Highway 1 at Garrapata Creek Bridge for bridge and temporary signal work.

Highway 1: Nepenthe (South Entrance) – Ventana Entrance: Long – Term
One-way traffic controls will be in place along northbound and southbound Highway 1 between the entrances for Nepenthe and Ventana for bridge and temporary signal work.

Highway 1: Little Sur River Bridge – Garrapata State Park: April 17 – April 21
One-way traffic controls will be in place along northbound and southbound Highway 1 between the Little Sur River Bridge and Garrapata State Park for emergency repair work from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.

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California’s recent floods and wet weather do not necessarily reduce the danger of wildfires later in the year. “The dangerous side to this could be — and we’ve seen this in the past — is we get all this moisture, which increases the amount of spring growth around the state, and then all that growth dries out after we no longer get more moisture and becomes just additional fuels,” Andrew Schwartz, lead scientist at the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab, told CNN.

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Date:	Friday, April 14, 2023
District:	05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact:	Kevin Drabinski or Alexa Bertola
Phone:	(805) 549-3138 or (805) 549-3237

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HIGHWAY 1 REPAIRS SET FOR SATURDAY TO RESULT IN DELAYS 

MONTEREY COUNTY – Emergency repairs to a section of failed pavement on Highway 1 will take place on Saturday April 15.

Travelers will encounter one-way traffic control with half hour delays from 7 am to 5 pm on Saturday April 15, from just north of Coast Ridge Road at Post Mile 44.59, to south of the Big Sur Bakery at PM 45.23.

Crews will cold plane and repave both directions of travel.

Despite this emergency repair work, Highway 1 remains open with full access to all coastal businesses for 50 miles from Monterey to the Big Creek Vista area.

Road information and updates can also be found on Caltrans District 5 Social Media platforms: Twitter at: @CaltransD5, Facebook at: Caltrans Central Coast (District 5) and Instagram at: Caltrans_D5.

Our crews deserve to get home safely too.

Drive slowly and carefully in work zones.

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Traveler information at: https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/

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By the way, I believe the release date is in error and that it was released today, 4/11.

Thanks to Iris Brewster for posting this…something we can all use right now.

Hymn For The Hurting by Amanda Gorman

Everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed and strange,
Minds made muddied and mute.
We carry tragedy, terrifying and true.
And yet none of it is new;
We knew it as home,
As horror,
As heritage.
Even our children
Cannot be children,
Cannot be.
Everything hurts.
It’s a hard time to be alive,
And even harder to stay that way.
We’re burdened to live out these days,
While at the same time, blessed to outlive them.
This alarm is how we know
We must be altered —
That we must differ or die,
That we must triumph or try.
Thus while hate cannot be terminated,
It can be transformed
Into a love that lets us live.
May we not just grieve, but give:
May we not just ache, but act;
May our signed right to bear arms
Never blind our sight from shared harm;
May we choose our children over chaos.
May another innocent never be lost.
Maybe everything hurts,
Our hearts shadowed & strange.
But only when everything hurts
May everything change.

I think it is going to be longer than originally thought — Best to settle into the new routine. Unofficial estimated time to open: four months from the boots on the ground. These contractors are working 7 days a week, even on holidays. These were taken Easter Day, and note there were three excavators on site working.

Water is a powerful force, reshaping the earth as it wants.

From Easters Past. Now, Jo-anne is in Mendocino and Debbie is in San Diego. Debra is in Tulare and Morgan Hill and Suzette is in Morro Bay. But when they were here we had lovely Easters at Jo-anne’s place. I am making a simple Easter up here for Rock Knocker and me. We can’t get anywhere but King City, and neither of us really know people there. Happy Easter to all of you in whatever way you celebrate.

I dress in Gray

During the wet dreary months.

Because it does not show the dog hair, as much.

And it matches the weather

And my mood.

When the weather changes

I bring out the colors.

Gray weather.

Windows that only reflect back gray

Gray is why I can’t move

To Oregon or Washington

Although California seems to have

Switched weather with them.

Gray is why I can’t move

Even around my own home.

Gray is why I have trouble getting much done.

When the sun comes out,

I celebrate and also go out

Welcoming the change in the light.

And bring out the colors

Date:	Wednesday, April 5, 2023
District:	05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact:	Kevin Drabinski or Alexa Bertola
Phone:	(805) 549-3138 or (805) 549-3237

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

UPDATE #38

FIFTEEN MILES OF HIGHWAY 1 TO REOPEN AS NORTHERN CLOSURE LIMIT CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTH

MONTEREY / SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTIES – The northern closure limit of Highway 1 on the Big Sur coast was moved yesterday from Deetjen’s Inn in Monterey County at PM 42.2 to Lime Creek at PM 32.2. The northern closure is expected to continue to move south by tomorrow afternoon to the Big Creek Vista Point at PM 27. The southern closure limit remains at the Ragged Point Inn in San Luis Obispo County.

The movement of the northern closure became possible after crews cleared debris and stabilized slopes from slides just south of Torre Canyon Bridge at PM 39.5, just south of Esalen at PM 32.5, and farther south at PM 29.5. Crews may need to return at a later date to the slide area at PM 32.5 to perform additional slope stabilization efforts under one-way reversing traffic control. 

In total this week, southern movement of the northern closure will have reopened an additional 15 miles of Highway 1 on the Big Sur coast.

It should be noted that the Big Sur coast experience is still available for travelers.Many beautiful miles of highway stretch on the south coast with communities such as Morro Bay, Cambria, San Simeon, and the Ragged Point Inn itself, welcome and open for business.

The same is true for the traveler who can take in the spectacular sights and make large inroads from Monterey and Carmel deep into the heart of this scenic byway.

Caltrans and contracted crews, except during rain events, will work seven days a week to make all necessary repairs, reduce the closure limits, and eventually reopen the entire length of the Big Sur coast.

Road information and updates can also be found on Caltrans District 5 Social Media platforms: Twitter at: @CaltransD5, Facebook at: Caltrans Central Coast (District 5) and Instagram at: Caltrans_D5.