Date:	Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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 RETAINING WALL PROJECT TO START JULY 26

WITH 24/7 SIGNALIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL 

MONTEREY COUNTY – A construction project on Highway 1 on the Big Sur Coast to build a retaining wall and enhance drainage infrastructure will begin Tuesday July 26.

The project location is on Highway 1 at PM 44.5 at a location known as Coastlands. It is approximately one mile north of the Henry Miller Library and .8 miles south of the Big Sur Post Office.

Winter storms in the first quarter of 2019 caused a slip out below the southbound lanes of travel after which an emergency project secured the hillside. These repairs below the roadway, along with K-Rail placed on the southbound shoulder, have permitted the road to remain open until a permanent repair could be made. 

The current project involves construction of a soldier pile retaining wall, installation of guardrail, and additional enhancements to drainage infrastructure and landscaping, which will permanently restore the site.

Starting on July 26, travelers will encounter 24/7 one-way traffic control as temporary signals will be activated at each end of the project parameters. Travelers can expect delays of up to 10 minutes.

Travelers will encounter reduced speed limits in the area in addition to the 24/7 signalized one-way traffic control beginning Tuesday July 26.

Travelers can expect delays of up to 10 minutes.

Message and directional signs will alert motorists in advance of the construction area.

Travelers are reminded to be work zone alert and give themselves extra time for their commute along this beauteous corridor.

The contractor for this $1.5 million project is FEC Future Contractors and Engineers Inc. of Irvine, CA. This project is scheduled to conclude in February 2023.

Caltrans reminds motorists to move over and slow down when 

driving through highway work zones.

For traffic updates on other state highways in Monterey County, travelers may contact Caltrans District 5 Public Affairs at 805-549-3318 or can visit the District 5 website at: https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-5

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Kevin Drabinski

Public Information Officer

Caltrans District 5

Incident:

 00255 Type:

 Trfc Collision-1141 Enrt Location:

 Sr1 / Bixby Brdg Loc Desc:

 SB JNO Lat/Lon:

 36.372378 -121.902408 

Detail Information
4:09 PM	25	[58] SOLO PATIENT / OTHER 2 INV ARE 1182 / 2 VEH TC
3:59 PM	24	[52] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 UNITED TO 1022 / BOT
3:58 PM	23	[51] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 CALIFORNIA TOW 831-424-8615 / ENRT FOR EVID
3:56 PM	22	[50] REQ CALIFORNIA TOW FOR EVIDENCE FOR A MC
3:52 PM	21	[48] 1039 MTY COMM F/ K CAR
3:50 PM	20	[46] ALL LANES BLOCKED
3:43 PM	19	[44] PER MTRY COM, FIRE NOT YET 97 / SO JUST WENT 97, WILL CBK W/UPDATES
3:33 PM	18	[38] [Notification] [CHP]-PER MONT COM – FIRE ENRT FROM BIG SUR – 2 SO UNITS ENRT C3 [Shared]
3:27 PM	17	[32] 1039 MTRY COM TO REQ THE SO FOR 1184 / 2 SO DEPS ENRT
3:27 PM	16	[31] 1039 ST PARKS
3:25 PM	15	[28] [Appended, 15:25:33] [5] RIDER UNDER VEH
3:24 PM	14	[27] [Appended, 15:25:33] [4] TRANS MTYCOM / RP IS FRIEND OF RIDER
3:24 PM	13	[25] [Appended, 15:25:33] [2] SOLO VEH VS MC
3:22 PM	12	[23] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 UNITED TOW 831-393-5000
3:21 PM	11	[20] [Appended, 15:21:15] [3] ONLY 1125 NB LANE
3:19 PM	10	[19] [Appended, 15:21:15] [2] UNK VEH DESC
3:19 PM	9	[18] [Appended, 15:21:15] [1] 3 VEHS VS 1 MC
3:18 PM	8	[11] MC RIDER UNDER A VEH
3:18 PM	7	[7] 1039 MTYCOM FOR 1141
3:18 PM	6	[9] [Appended, 15:18:37] [2] POSS 3 VEHS INV
3:18 PM	5	[5] 1125 BOTH LANES
3:18 PM	4	[4] NO VEH DESC
3:18 PM	3	[8] [Appended, 15:18:37] [1] VEH VS MC
3:17 PM

Just posted to twitter by NWS: ”Currently tracking some showers in SLO county that are approaching Monterey county. These cells have produced some lightning near Shandon. Expect the potential for thunderstorms for southern Monterey and southern San Benito counties through the evening. #CAwx”

I suspect, based on other predictions I have read that the potential for thunderstorms with be on the SE portion of MoCo, not the coast.

This is a print Erin did to raise money for our community, I think after the Soberanes Fire. I’d always wanted on of Erin’s prints, so I purchased this one — for a good cause. An internet friend, Jane-Ashley Skinner, paid to have it framed and matted for me as a gift after the Soberanes Fire. She has a place on both coasts. It hangs in my bedroom, and I love it. Thank you, Ladies. I treasure this.

FULL OVERNIGHT CLOSURE OF HIGHWAY 1 NEAR CASTOVILLE ON SUNDAY, JULY 17

There will be full closure of northbound and southbound Highway 1 near Castroville on Sunday, July 17 at 8:30 pm to 5:30 am on Monday, July 18 for repair and pavement work.

The highway will be closed between the junction of Highway 1 and Highway 156 & at the junction of Highway 1 with Highway 183, just west of Castroville. A detour will be in effect and travelers can expect a delay up to 10 minutes.

Per Daniel Swain, Weather West: ”In California, the first wave of heat will affect the interior this weekend before relenting somewhat by mid-week. But the secondary heat peak beginning around 10 days from now and continuing for at least 7+ days may be much more consequential and prolonged.

“This heatwave will be remarkable more for its great spatial extent and duration as opposed to its maximum intensity (though again, that could perhaps change, as some ensemble members are suggesting the potential for even hotter conditions).

In other words, this weekend might just be an indication of what is in store for us in about 10 days.

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,”When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”[64]
Preamble Outlines a general philosophy of government that justifies revolution when government harms natural rights.[63]	“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Indictment A bill of grievances documenting the king’s “repeated injuries and usurpations” of the Americans’ rights and liberties.[63]	“Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.”He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.”He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.”He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.”He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.”He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.”He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.”He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.”He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:”For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:”For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:”For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:”For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:”For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:”For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:”For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:”For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:”For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.”He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.”He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Failed warnings Describes the colonists’ attempts to inform and warn the British people of the king’s injustice, and the British people’s failure to act. Even so, it affirms the colonists’ ties to the British as “brethren.”[63]	“Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.”
Denunciation This section essentially finishes the case for independence. The conditions that justified revolution have been shown.[63]	“We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.”
Conclusion The signers assert that there exist conditions under which people must change their government, that the British have produced such conditions and, by necessity, the colonies must throw off political ties with the British Crown and become independent states. The conclusion contains, at its core, the Lee Resolution that had been passed on July 2.	“We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”