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Tag: Highway 101
Roadbuilding
Work continues to open Cal. highways closed by mudslides
California Department of Transportation crews are working to clear mud off Highway 101 and State Route 33 following massive mudslides. Caltrans reports that multiple crews are working seven days a week on State Route 33 in Las Padres National Forest in Ventura County. The agency says it is clearing about 7 million pounds of dirt each […]
January 18, 2018
Roadbuilding
Four-ton pipe rolls from wheel loader, crushes worker in California work zone
While working a highway job near San Francisco Wednesday, a construction worker was crushed and killed by a large pipe. According to a report from the Press Democrat, 28-year-old Jared Overfield was killed inside a work zone along Highway 101 as part of a crew working to improve a frontage road. Overfield was directing a wheel loader operator […]
April 16, 2015
Roadbuilding
Highway worker killed when driver veers off road
A road worker was killed on Highway 101 in Redwood City, California, when a female driver veered her vehicle off the road. California Highway Patrol say the driver crashed through a fence near the Marsh Road exit off of southbound 101, and hit three people. She was driving a Mercedes C-Class coupe when she apparently lost […]
August 8, 2014
Roadbuilding
Construction and heavy traffic force roadside child birth
A traffic jam in the San Francisco Bay area forced a soon-to-be father to pull his vehicle over and deliver his own child on the side of a busy Sonoma County highway. Luis Lugo’s wife Lucy Renteria knew she was going into labor when she told him to drive her to the hospital. Unfortunately the baby […]
August 6, 2014
Roadbuilding
5 freeway bridges in need of repair following accident
A truck hauling an excavator caused some major problems for the Washington State Department of Transportation after colliding with five freeway overpasses. Cost of the repairs have not yet been determined, but all five bridges will need to be repaired. “It’s too early to say how much the repairs will cost,” Doug Adamson, WSDOT spokesman […]
July 18, 2014
Roadbuilding
Granite Construction awarded $24M stimulus-funded reconstruction project
Fear has arisen that the economy will continue to stall, especially in the transportation sector, as much of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a.k.a. “the stimulus” funding has already been awarded. Although there was talk of a second stimulus bill, there is currently nothing in the works. But if California — often the […]
December 10, 2009
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