🛣 Headlines About California Highways – October 2021

[cahwyguy]

Here it is, your standard headline posts with headlines about California Highways during the month of October. But because it is Halloween, I have both a trick and a treat for you if you go to the post. What are they? You'll have to read the post to find out.

Here's the link: https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=16175

Oh, and those who actually discuss the headlines get an extra piece of virtual 🍬🍫 candy (at least until I run out).

Ready, set, discuss.

[Max Rockatansky]

Nobody listens to variable speed limit signs anywhere else in the country, they sure won't on 99 in Elk Grove either.  CHP doesn't seem to be (from my observation) all that concerned with stopping speeders in lieu of going after more reckless behaviors or responding to emergency calls.

Pertaining to CA 1 at Gleeson Beach in Sonoma County if the DOH had been able to stick to the original plan it would have bypassed much of the coast and Bodega Bay.  The relocation kind of reminds me or what happened north of San Simeon a couple years ago when CA 1 was relocated uphill.   

Geeze, that roundabout project in San Juan Bautista is going to alter the original alignment of US 101 on First Street.  That's kind of shame given the City Historical Society was looking at putting historic US 101 signage. 

[cahwyguy]

Nobody listens to variable speed limit signs anywhere else in the country, they sure won't on 99 in Elk Grove either.  CHP doesn't seem to be (from my observation) all that concerned with stopping speeders in lieu of going after more reckless behaviors or responding to emergency calls.

Ah, but the Tesla's on autopilot might :-). I've always wondered how those variable speed signs interface with nav (a good test would be the stretch of I-15 parallels the LV Strip -- that has variable speed signs, even by lanes). My guess is that autopilot nav obeys the speed limits.

[Max Rockatansky]

Nobody listens to variable speed limit signs anywhere else in the country, they sure won't on 99 in Elk Grove either.  CHP doesn't seem to be (from my observation) all that concerned with stopping speeders in lieu of going after more reckless behaviors or responding to emergency calls.

Ah, but the Tesla's on autopilot might :-). I've always wondered how those variable speed signs interface with nav (a good test would be the stretch of I-15 parallels the LV Strip -- that has variable speed signs, even by lanes). My guess is that autopilot nav obeys the speed limits.

In theory systems like Tesla's Auto Point should be able to read a Variable Speed Sign.  I might actually inquire with some of the Florida road groups to see how well that goes in the Miami Area.  Most of my experience with Variable Speed Limit Signs come from the Miami-Dade Area where they tend to be universally ignored by traffic.

[ClassicHasClass]

Good to see I-5 in north San Diego county getting widening and carpool lane attention. I've become a big fan of the I-15 managed lanes now that I'm making regular runs that direction.

[skluth]

Just to chime in on the variable speed limit discussion, we had them on I-270 when I lived in St Louis. If any drivers obeyed them, they weren't noticed. Eventually, MODOT just gave up. I think they now just post times to important interchanges.

[pderocco]

Shem Previva? Speech-to-text, perhaps?

Or should it be Shemp Reviva, the resurrection of a Stooge?

[Techknow]

Lots of news about US 101 in LA, San Mateo County, and of course in Petaluma the north end of the Sonoma-Marin narrows. According to one of the articles the widening in Petaluma is also the last major sub-project in the Sonoma county side (makes sense because I drove thru there 2 years ago and north of the county line has been widened.) As long as this is chugging along I'm cool with that.

[Plutonic Panda]

That 101 Richardson grove project is pretty controversial but I say do it. I love trees but there are tens of thousands of redwoods and per caltrans there won't be any old growth removal but the protestors claim there is.

[ClassicHasClass]

Protestors claim a lot of things.