Weeks after storms and a rockslide closed a protracted stretch of Freeway 1 south of Massive Sur, Caltrans is reopening a lot of the highway to visitors this weekend.
An almost 20-mile stretch between Ragged Level in San Luis Obispo County and Mill Creek in Monterey County is scheduled to reopen Sunday afternoon. A ten-mile stretch between Lime Creek and Paul’s Slide is open to journey by native residents, in line with a California Division of Transportation information launch from Wednesday.
Nonetheless, parts of Freeway 1 will stay closed. It would take six weeks for Caltrans to reopen the roadway by the Mill Creek space. The company continues to be evaluating how far more time it would take for repairs on the freeway round Paul’s Slide, the place a big landslide weeks in the past moved into the roadway. Caltrans instructed the San Jose Mercury Information that the company nonetheless wanted to maneuver about 1 million cubic ft of dust to interchange the stretch of highway round Paul’s Slide.
“At current, the total highway closure of Freeway 1 by Paul’s Slide is predicted to be long run,” the company stated.
One-way visitors management will probably be in impact for a lot of the day on the Polar Star slide one mile south of Ragged Level and one other website 3.5 miles north of Ragged Level whereas Caltrans continues its repairs.
Current rainstorms, similar to one final month, pounded Freeway 1, which has taken a beating through the years. It took some three months in 2021 for Caltrans to reopen the roadway close to Massive Sur after heavy rain washed a 150-foot chunk of roadway into the ocean.
On Feb. 10, 2021, crews dig out particles from a washed-out part of Freeway 1 at Rat Creek alongside the Massive Sur coast.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Occasions)
