Caltrans Hopes to Reopen 101 to One-Way Traffic by this Weekend; Slide Still Active

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From Caltrans District 1:

US101 CLOSURE UPDATE 4/26 4:45 PM:

Our contractors have been able to resume work after slide activity closed the highway again last night. The slide has been sporadically active throughout the day, with work being suspended during periods of increased slide activity.

We’re cautiously optimistic that we may be able to restore one-way traffic by this weekend.

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Cowabunga
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Cowabunga
6 years ago

Think I’ll speed up when traveling through that section, when the road does reopen.

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
6 years ago

ABC News just had a film clip (4/26) of CalTrans workers jumping out of the way of the slide.

ED Denson
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ED Denson
6 years ago

Mary Alice told me she wrote to our Representative suggesting that they upgrade and pave the Bell Springs Road, since these slides that close 101 are occuring every couple of years. She pointed out that 101 is a lifeline in and out of Humboldt county, not only bringing us most of our supplies but also providing a way to reach more sophisticated medical treatment and, at times, emergency treatment. I’ll bet if more people wrote to him about this, we’ll see some action.

JR
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JR
6 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

Bell Springs Road should be paved. It was part of the Mail Ridge Route all the way to Kneeland that was the original access road to Eureka and Arcata.

shak
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shak
6 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

Good thinking! I hope the office gets flooded with calls.

MaryAlice
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MaryAlice
6 years ago
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Ernie Branscomb
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6 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

I think that we should use the same bunch of flying pigs that we used to straighten the road through Richardson Grove.

visitor
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visitor
6 years ago

Watching for pigs on the wing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXDe_wtMeI

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago

“Flying pigs”? Did I miss something, Ernie? Or have you been listing to a lot of Pink Floyd? 😉

Ernie Branscomb
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6 years ago
Reply to  Ben Round

Sometimes I just get caught up in the irony of fixing North Coast roads and can’t resist the sarcasm. But, it will all happen when pigs fly. I probably gave you a much cheaper feasibility study than we could have gotten from an outside consultant. And, I saved you from the rhetoric of our politicians dancing around the subject while trying to make themselves look good. Plus, I taught you how to start a sentence with a conjunction.

visitor
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visitor
6 years ago

Conjunction? What’s the function?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg

Really
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Really
6 years ago
Reply to  ED Denson

Do you have any clue how long Bell Springs road is and how much that would cost??? Totally unfeasable!

sonne pedersen
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sonne pedersen
6 years ago

God Bless our Cal Trans workers! This is dangerous job and requires alert, knowledgeable men and women to recover our road.
They are doing and have done a fine job. Thumbs up and so glad everyone is working safe.

Reality Check
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Reality Check
6 years ago

The Lost Coast is lost for a reason. It costs ten to hundreds of millions of dollars EVERY YEAR to keep any transportation route open in these hills and mountains of soft, unstable rock and mud. We should be thankful the State keeps up what we have rather than expect them to open more routes that will cost that much more. If you absolutely require more reliable transportation, you are going to have to move somewhere else.

Ezra
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Ezra
6 years ago

Please no rush jobs, it’s a dangerous section of road

Steve
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Steve
6 years ago

How do I get around this? Need to be in Sac Monday night, leaving Monday afternoon.

Kym Kemp
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6 years ago
Reply to  Steve

Caltrans seems to think it will open this weekend. If it doesn’t, you have the choice of 299 or Hwy 36.

save our watershead
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save our watershead
6 years ago

pave bell springs this crazy

Jim
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Jim
6 years ago

Any solution they come up with will still take years to complete. Whether it’s a bridge bypass like Confusion Hill, or paving Bell Springs. And Bell Springs still wouldn’t support commercial traffic unless it was significantly upgraded.

But the biggest issue, as usual, is money. Write to Jerry Brown and tell him to scrap the idiotic “bullet train” and spend some of that $65 billion to fix a highway that far more people will use and depend on.

I would say scrap Brown, too, but I don’t want to get too political. LOL