Night Time Work To Begin On Tree Removal Along Highway 101 At Lakeville

Date:              February 6, 2013

District:         4 - Oakland

Contact:        Adam Priest 

Phone:          (510) 286-5543 office 

          

                                   

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Night Time Work To Begin On Tree Removal Along Highway 101 At Lakeville

Petaluma– Weather permitting, beginning this Saturday, February 9, 2013, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will begin removing trees along northbound Highway 101 and the northbound on-ramp from Lakeville Highway to Highway 101. The trees will be removed to make room for a proposed soundwall along with other interchange improvements.

The Lakeville Highway/Redwood Highway Interchange project is one of the first phases for the Marin Sonoma Narrows (MSN) Corridor High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane project from Route 37 in Novato to just south of Old Redwood Highway in Petaluma.

The tree removal will require a complete closure of the northbound on-ramp to Highway 101 from Lakeville Highway (Route 116E) and a closure of the northbound right lane of Highway 101. This work is expected to take a little over 2 weeks from the start date, weather permitting. Caltrans has limited the tree removal work hours to before 11:00 pm in an effort to minimize noise disturbances. The work cannot be performed during daytime hours due to high traffic volumes on Highway 101 and the northbound Onramp from Highway 116 (Lakeville Rd.).

Lane Closure Schedule

Lakeville Highway (Route 116E) Onramp to northbound Highway 101 closure

7pm-12 Midnight closure, starting 02/09/13 (clean up from 11PM-12AM)

Northbound Highway 101 right (#2) lane closure

6:30pm-12 Midnight (weekends) starting 02/09/13 (clean up from 11PM-12AM)

8:00pm-12 Midnight (weekdays) (Clean up from 11PM-12AM)

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