Category: Road Conditions

Full closure at Rain Rocks Rock shed Monday, 6/10 midnight – 6 am

Today’s Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013
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

SIX-HOUR CLOSURE OF HIGHWAY 1/PITKINS CURVE BRIDGE AND ROCKSHED PROJECT—EARLY MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 10

MONTEREY COUNTY —Highway 1 at Pitkins Curve (post-mile 21.5) will be fully closed from 12:01 (after midnight) until 6 am on Monday, June 10 for the removal of a temporary trestle or working platform near the rockshed, Caltrans officials announced today.

The full six-hour early morning closure is necessary to remove this platform. Electronic message signs will be posted to alert motorists.

The detour is Hwy. 68, U.S. Hwy. 101 to either Nacimiento-Fergusson Road or Hwy. 46.

The ¼ – mile project limits are from just north of Limekiln Creek Bridge to south of Lucia. The project includes a rockshed, a bridge, and a retaining wall.

“We are excited to provide limited traffic on the new bridge as project completion nears,” said District 5 Director Tim Gubbins. The entire project is scheduled to be done this fall.

Another South Coast Accident

Near Pacific Valley. Two more days of this LONG weekend, people. Try to get there and back alive.

[14] 1039 28-23
7:42 PM 6 [10] PER S5 / HAVE SLO OFFICER MAKE CONTACT/ENSURE NO DUI INVOLVED AND TAKE REG TC STATEMENT
7:11 PM 5 [6] 1039 CAMBRIA TOW
7:09 PM 4 [5] REQ MTY CHP HANDLE 11-85
7:09 PM 3 [4] SLO WILL INQ REG UNIT TO HOSPITAL TO MAKE CTC
7:07 PM 2 [3] CDF REQ 1185 FOR VEH
7:06 PM 1 [2] MC IS STILL 97 AT SCENE, INVLVD REQ 1185R – HAS 2 FRIENDS ON MCS 1097, 1023ING FOR 1185

Also there was a 50 acre fire, now contained, E of Atascadero at 41 E and Homestead. Here is a photo of that fire by Cal Fire SLO.

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Memorial Day Weekend Traffic

5:00 pm update. Another traffic accident when a car needed to be towed 3 miles south of Gorda. Apparently, a lucky driver joined the west of highway one club and his vehicle is 250 ft. down the cliff. The driver apparently suffered no injuries. Going to be a busy weekend. Glad I am up here!

Yesterday, there was a bad motorcycle accident near South Forty, up by Hurricane e Point. Today there is one down by the bottom of my road. This from CHP website:

“Detail Information
2:44 PM 11 [27] CAMBRIA ENRT / ETA WITHIN HOUR
2:25 PM 10 [24] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 CAMBRIA TOW 805-927-4357
2:19 PM 9 [20] UNKWN EXT OF INJURIES
2:19 PM 8 [17] NB LN 1125
2:18 PM 7 [16] 1185 FOR 2 WILL NEED 2 FLTBEDS
2:18 PM 6 [15] 1039 SALINAS WITH H70 UPDATE
2:18 PM 5 [14] LAS PADRES FIRE 1097
2:17 PM 4 [13] 1039 AIR OPS, H70 ENRT
2:09 PM 3 [10] 1039 S3 LL
2:08 PM 2 [6] CPZ, NEAR PLASKETT CRK RD
2:05 PM 1 [1] SIL VAN VS PK TK W/TRLR?”

Lots more holiday traffic on the roads means lot more opportunities for accidents. Drive carefully, out there!

BTW, decided to postpone the Big Sur LUP publication until after the holiday weekend, so space can be available to update everyone throughout the weekend, as needed.

Yet ANOTHER construction project on Highway One

As you can tell by my title, I, and probably many of us here on the South Coast, am frustrated. This is number FOUR, all going on together – that is an additional 40 minutes to go north, for an already long trip. It isn’t just the stoppages, though, it is all the traffic backed up one cannot get around, so one is consigned to the lowest common denominator in terms of miles per hour, which seems to be 30-35 mph, and many times, 15-20 mph. I have 150 things that I can only do north, and no way can I drive six hours round trip and get more than two done. Grrr…

Today’s Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
District: 05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Susana Z. Cruz or Colin Jones
Phone: (805) 549-3138 or (805) 549-3189

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HIGHWAY 1 EMERGENCY CULVERT REPLACEMENT BEGINS NEAR BIG SUR

MONTEREY COUNTY – An emergency culvert replacement on Hwy. 1 near Big Sur (postmile 50.36), just north of Captain Cooper School begins next Monday, April 15, Caltrans officials announced today.

Roadwork consists of one-way traffic control from 6 am to 3 pm Mondays through Fridays. Up to 10-minute delays can be anticipated. Work is expected to complete by the end of April.

The purpose of this emergency roadwork is to replace a failed culvert that has caused a large sinkhole.

The contractor for this $40,000 project is Robert J. Frank Construction of Redding.

Rocky Creek Update Meeting this Friday

Caltrans AND Supervisor Dave Potter
Invite you to ATTEND a
PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING

For The

Rocky Creek Viaduct

DATE/TIME: FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013 AT 10:00 AM

LOCATION: PFEIFFER CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE BIG SUR LODGE

MEETING AGENDA
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Project Status Update
III. Schedule
a. Compare Actual to Anticipated Progress
b. Discuss Schedule Moving Forward
i. Anticipated Completion Date for Stage 1 Construction
1. Anticipated Start Date for Stage 2 Construction
ii. Anticipated Project Completion Date
IV. Public Comments/Questions

CONTACTS:
Ken Dostalek Jayne Mohammadi
Caltrans, District 5 Aide to Supervisor Potter
Division of Project Management County of Monterey, Board of Supervisors
Ph: (805) 549-3133 Ph: (831) 647-7708
E-mail: ken.dostalek@dot.ca.gov E-mail: MohammadiJF@co.monterey.ca.us

Road Updates

Training exercises are going on at Ft. Hunter Leggett, so Nacimiento is closed for up to an hour at a time, random days and times, on the East side of Big Sur, where the base and USFS borders join and on the eastern side of the base at Nacimiento and Mission Rd. this is in effect now until March 9th.

On Rocky Creek, overnight closures are complicated, but not total. Sunday, March 3rd thru Wednesday, March 6th, there will be 10 minute closures from 9 pm to 11 pm, then 1/2 hour closures from 11 pm to 7am. Thursday, March 7th there will be a hard closure from 10 pm until 7 am Friday morning.

Okay, got that now?

BTW, some technical difficulties of an unknown source. I am not getting ANY emails on my iPad, from home or abroad. I am still getting them on my iPhone, though. I am having trouble with sundry other apps on my iPad, but not all, and some I can’t get at home, I get while abroad on the coast. More troubleshooting is in order, I guess! If I can’t figure it out, I guess I’ll have to take my iPad in to Verizon or Apple. I love technology!

After a day and a half of that, for some bizzare reason, I am now getting emails on my iPad, again. Who knows what happened?

Condor Photos by Dave Fauset

Dave Fauset has been working for Winsor on the highway at Partington Ridge. The other day, while working the Highway, he had the wonderful opportunity to see and photograph our Condors.

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Thanks for sharing your photographs, and enjoy your home away from home while you are here!

Working to save Highway from itself, and Mother Nature

Following is a photojournal of my trip north Wednesday. Three construction areas, we had to traverse. This is why we don’t go north much right now.

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Look at the colors in those arches. Aren’t they gorgeous!.

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AND, construction number two – Partington.

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It is not just the stopping for 10 minutes, or more, EACH, it is getting in a line of cars from which one cannot escape!

Finally, Rocky Creek.

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Partington no longer an island!

Road is now open and residents are driving it. Thanks to Blaze, Cal-Trans, Partington Road Association, and all those behind the scenes that made this happen! Congratulations, all! Good job!

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