Highway 92 to Half Moon Bay congestion - how did we get here?

Started by Voyager, January 02, 2025, 12:40:04 PM

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Voyager

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 02:54:12 PMMy wife has trained me well on auto correct speak.  She frequently texts me stuff like that and I end up having to figure out what she really meant.  I think my accuracy rate is now about 75%.  Doesn't hurt that I'm on 1 in Santa Cruz about every other month and have been keeping up with the current project corridor. 

I read recently that the new lanes were going to be bus only lanes?
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Max Rockatansky

Quote from: Voyager on January 03, 2025, 04:46:46 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 02:54:12 PMMy wife has trained me well on auto correct speak.  She frequently texts me stuff like that and I end up having to figure out what she really meant.  I think my accuracy rate is now about 75%.  Doesn't hurt that I'm on 1 in Santa Cruz about every other month and have been keeping up with the current project corridor. 

I read recently that the new lanes were going to be bus only lanes?

Auxiliary and bus-only on the shoulder.  Daniel's page has lengthy history on what is going on:

https://www.cahighways.org/ROUTE001.html

Plutonic Panda

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 02:57:50 PM
Quote from: Plutonic Panda on January 03, 2025, 02:19:34 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 02:14:04 PM
Quote from: Plutonic Panda on January 03, 2025, 02:04:47 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 01:48:11 PMFWIW I can vouch for 92 being generally being close to as bad as Voyager is describing near Half Moon Bay.  Generally, when I hike the area, I try to avoid making the mistake of bailing out on eastbound CA 92.  Usually, I'll just go south on CA 1 and deal the multi-lane bottleneck on the freeway when I get to Santa Cruz instead. 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are they not adding celery lanes in this area?

Yes, it should be of some help.  That freeway opened in the late 1940s.
That will be nice. This is where I often get backed up during congestion. Well that and Lompoc and sometimes by Vandenberg AFB Which I can understand why they don't simply just build a roundabout there. Bonus points, if they would build a tunnel under the roundabout for CA-1 traffic.

Edit: I just realized on my other post, I said celery lanes, Obviously I met auxiliary.

Why stick to 1 though unless you are heading to Vandenburg?  Harris Grade Road (old 1) is so much faster given it is five miles shorter.

I would imagine whoever manages base safety at Vandenburg is probably not keen on roundabout.  Those guys aren't engineers and come up with bizarre traffic control ideas in the "interest of safety" don't work. 
Usually, when I take this route, I'm not in any big rush. But next time I do it, I'll take up your suggestion because I've never been on that route.

pderocco

Quote from: Plutonic Panda on January 03, 2025, 02:19:34 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 02:14:04 PM
Quote from: Plutonic Panda on January 03, 2025, 02:04:47 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on January 03, 2025, 01:48:11 PMFWIW I can vouch for 92 being generally being close to as bad as Voyager is describing near Half Moon Bay.  Generally, when I hike the area, I try to avoid making the mistake of bailing out on eastbound CA 92.  Usually, I'll just go south on CA 1 and deal the multi-lane bottleneck on the freeway when I get to Santa Cruz instead. 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are they not adding celery lanes in this area?

Yes, it should be of some help.  That freeway opened in the late 1940s.
That will be nice. This is where I often get backed up during congestion. Well that and Lompoc and sometimes by Vandenberg AFB Which I can understand why they don't simply just build a roundabout there. Bonus points, if they would build a tunnel under the roundabout for CA-1 traffic.

Edit: I just realized on my other post, I said celery lanes, Obviously I met auxiliary.
Not nessecelery.



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