Poor Planning on 101 Expansion Project

[Spare the Air]

There are signs that tell me EVERY freeway entrance & exit from Milbrae Ave in Millbrae to 3rd Ave in San Mateo will be closed from 4/17/07 to 5/8/07.

That's three full weeks with ALL these exits closed? Who planned this project?

Closing all these interchanges simultaneously for a three-week period will have a HUGE negative impact on both local traffic and local business. Everyone in this corridor will have to drive miles on conjested surface streets, using more time, expensive fuel and creating more pollution in the process.

The "correct" way to do this project would be to close each interchange for a shorter period of time, in a sequential manner, as the project progresses down the 101 corridor. To close ALL these interchanges for three weeks is extremely poor planning.

I just wrote to Cal Trans and suggest you do the same.
Here's the link to complain to the Cal Trans District 4 Director: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/emailsartipi.htm

[jerry]

I just drove down 101 today and re-read the signs.

It appears that they have amended the signage -- the ramps will close only from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.



There are signs that tell me EVERY freeway entrance & exit from Milbrae Ave in Millbrae to 3rd Ave in San Mateo will be closed from 4/17/07 to 5/8/07.

That's three full weeks with ALL these exits closed? Who planned this project?

Closing all these interchanges simultaneously for a three-week period will have a HUGE negative impact on both local traffic and local business. Everyone in this corridor will have to drive miles on conjested surface streets, using more time, expensive fuel and creating more pollution in the process.

The "correct" way to do this project would be to close each interchange for a shorter period of time, in a sequential manner, as the project progresses down the 101 corridor. To close ALL these interchanges for three weeks is extremely poor planning.

I just wrote to Cal Trans and suggest you do the same.
Here's the link to complain to the Cal Trans District 4 Director: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/emailsartipi.htm

[Spare the Air]

Jerry,

Thanks for the update. I also found out that Cal Trans does not plan on closing all the entrances / exits at the same time. It seems the signs were in-error...

This appears to be a workable solution to the freeway upgrade.

[Spare the Air]

Saw the signs were replaced today with new ones per Jerry's coments above.

Cal Trans contacted me and said the contractor didn't put all the info on the original signs...