🛣 Headlines about California Highways – February 2020

[cahwyguy]

Even though I'm in the old-so-cold land of Madison WI this weekend (visiting my daughter), I've still got headlines about oh-so-warm California. Want to see them? Just visit https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=15811

And as always... ready, set, discuss.

[ClassicHasClass]

Looking forward to the 210 expansion. There's plenty of room, and it eliminates an obvious bottleneck.

[Max Rockatansky]

Personally I've never found CA 154 all that dangerous on weekdays.  On weekends you get a lot of people and their ritzy sports cars heading over San Marcos Pass to Solvang which often is the instigator of problems. 

I really had an up front view of the Minkler/Centerville Bypass Project given its a 15 minute drive from me.  My main question is how is Fresno County going to reroute the Blossom Trail onto the new CA 180 expressway?...or are they?

Kind of a lean month for me (at least State Side) on Gribblenation.  I just got back from Mexico but I'm planning on some fault line roadways next week along with some Sign County Routes in Tulare County.  I'm planning on visiting my brother in Boise in April which should load up May with NorCal highways.  I am enjoying doing the smaller articles on highway alignments in Cities, the Salinas Article back in January was a lot of fun researching. 

[The Ghostbuster]

Madison, Wisconsin is the city I live in. Maybe in another thread, cahwyguy, you could tell us what you think of my city (besides its weather).

[sparker]

Looking forward to the 210 expansion. There's plenty of room, and it eliminates an obvious bottleneck.

This might well be the project that eliminates the roadblock to actually pursuing the I-210 designation for the entire 85 miles of the freeway.  But chances are that the impetus for doing so will have to come from D8 and, to a lesser degree, D7;  it's doubtful Sacramento Caltrans HQ would take any significant steps toward this without pressure from the local sector.  But the project is still a couple of years off, so the whole matter remains on hold -- but it does give the agency time to resolve the chargeability issue around the current CA 57/former I-210 section from I-10 north to the current 210/57 interchange.  IMO, it should be simply re-designated as I-510 but with "hidden" status as per I-305 or even I-595 in MD; that should satisfy all parties.

[Plutonic Panda]

Looking forward to the 210 expansion. There's plenty of room, and it eliminates an obvious bottleneck.

Same here.

Now can we work on the OTHER 210 that has ridiculously oversized shoulders and concert those into two more driving lanes each way!? Lol.

I was pleasantly surprised they are widening the whole stretch.

[cahwyguy]

Madison, Wisconsin is the city I live in. Maybe in another thread, cahwyguy, you could tell us what you think of my city (besides its weather).

I'll just do a short digression here -- I found it a lovely city, easy to get around. Hard to figure out directions without the mountains (that's a running joke. I"m from Southern California, and had a friend who kept complaining the mountains were on the wrong side). I spent most of my time along Washington, Winnebago, Jenifer, around the capitol, and over on campus near the Mosse building.

[coatimundi]

Did they rebuild the Kings River bridge on 180 for the new expressway? Or did they use the existing one on one side and build another? Google Maps shows it pushing back to non-divided at the river which seems wrong.

[Max Rockatansky]

Did they rebuild the Kings River bridge on 180 for the new expressway? Or did they use the existing one on one side and build another? Google Maps shows it pushing back to non-divided at the river which seems wrong.

Right now traffic is being shifted to the westbound lanes.  I'm fairly certain is being rehabbed but it's hard to get a solid look, or at least it was when I drove the new expressway segment.