Thanks to us! State agency posts maps, info about road upgrade closures south of Mendocino after Mendocinocoast.news article
Great Job Caltrans!!! In response to people who wanted information about the huge repaving project that runs from SOUTH of the Jack Peters Creek Bridge to Elk and will go on for the rest of the year, Caltrans has posted some new maps and information sheets.
Mendocinocoast.news started reporting on this project and how it was not well noticed back in April this year. Over the next three months, we talked to about a dozen people and got pretty much the same input from everyone—
1. WOW it’s awesome what they are doing, These new roads, guardrails and more all the way from Elk to Mendo are GREAT.
2. WOW! Why couldn’t we find out from the Caltrans sites this was going on? And man, those are some very bright lights! I can barely see going by and I had no idea I was going to encounter that.
District 1 (our area) Spokesman Manny Machado has now posted and provided maps and info sheets.
The project is doing guardrail work daily and pavement work nightly through September and/or the end of 2025.
Here is the newly posted info from Caltrans. You can now find it on their social media sites, the app, and online: Link to new info about the big road improvements.
“A series of projects are occurring on State Route 1 along the Mendocino Coast that will improve and repair infrastructure, but will impact traffic at multiple locations between Westport and Manchester this summer. From bridge and culvert replacements to paving and other projects, it’s all underway. While this summer may present challenges for travelers on SR 1, please keep the long-term goal in mind – new bridges and broadband capabilities for the benefit and safety of our coastal communities,s plus smooth and durable pavement.
Road construction often seems to happen “at the same time” because of a combination of factors including: project planning and permitting processes, emergency projects and the need to minimize traffic disruptions by concentrating construction during specific times of the year when weather is most favorable, leading to a concentrated period of construction activity across the region. Here’s what’s happening and where to expect delays:
Please plan when traveling along the Mendocino Coast this summer.
Visit Caltrans District 1 social media or the QuickMap app for the latest road conditions. Motorists are reminded to “Be Work Zone Alert” and slow in construction zones for the safety of travelers and work crews.” (Provided by District One Spokesman Manny Machado)
I drove through this harrowing scene now 5 times from start to finish, and had multiple people try to find out more information on the project.
And many kept getting confused with the Jack Peters Creek Bridge project, which Caltrans had noted from the beginning and which should come as a surprise to nobody.
When I was a young reporter, people tended to rebel against the government a bit too much. Now a grand portion of our population are so obedient to authority they are just positive that any questions asked are wrong.
Demand answers, not instructions at all time.
This is sad here, because Caltrans is one of the more responsive agencies in a situation like this They are willing to do something like make corrections, add information and maps when asked to by the taxpayers.
Of course, I have been a fierce Caltrans critic and there will be times when that is needed, but so many of those who control our lives won’t even respond to anything. Try talking to Media News and the faceless slimsters at the Trust Funds who own virtually every newspaper in Northern California now, other than Gualala’s Independent Coast Observer.
Some people today can’t stop saluting the government and big corporations long enough to listen to and participate with the government. And yes, corporations and non profits have a moral obligation to participate in the communities where they are. We all do.
You won’t read about this previously unheralded construction project anywhere else unless there is a press release. Then you will. Only then.
My rivals in this county, except for the AVA on many occasions, most don’t speak until officialdom or meetingdom speaks.
Here is our story that led to this.. It was based on YOUR INPUT, not on a press release. And you kept giving your input to us and Caltrans.
Story on the surprise traffic work going on furiously south of Mendo
You are being lied to by other media outlet-press releases are fake news!
If I can warn readers about anything, it wouldn’t be well-executed traffic tieups; it would be press releases. Local media outlets that use press releases without checking them (pretty much all of them) are giving you fake news.. Worst of all is one of the best local media outlets, where writers put their names on press releases and never say they are press releases, pretending the writer wrote that story.
I will do an exposé on them if this does not stop! They have already done this hundreds, if not thousands of times. Even without this egregious violation of journalism style and ethics, press releases are in no way news. They are the opinion of the government authorities or the corporate boosters. News requires some effort to verify, and some effort to get information on then report on the other side of the story.
When news outlets take the word of police without fact checking, that’s not a law enforcement problem. They are doing their job. This is we the media is failing spectacularly
In a grand effort to counter press release stories and improper reporting of such, I heartily recommend Mark Scarmella in the AVA, and Mike Geniella, the king of inland Mendo journalism and perhaps the entire county.
Mendocinocoast.news remains focused on the areas from Elk to Westport on the Coast. And although I sometimes use information contained in press releases, I will check everything I can and I ask you, the reader, to help with this.
We will continue to cover big stories, especially those not covered, or covered only by government or corporate press releases.
