What’s the incentive to finish it? Nice view and endless change orders that are accepted. Welcome to a Ca government run project. Maybe the train to nowhere will come back…..this state is the most corrupt in the nation and the beat continues to go on and on…..
It seems as if this construction has been in place since before the Thomas Fire.
Living down South as a Child,I remember the freeway stopping at Bath Street and you had to get off and go through town in order to proceed up North.
Carpinterians have felt the brunt of this construction for many years. Getting to and fro to appointments or schools took extra time due to that.
The calming circles installed seem to cause more traffic as people don't know how to use them. Can you imagine in a fire what these one lane ,no way out circles will cause?
No secret exits or roads due to Google Maps.
Maybe by 2028 we all have flying cars they the need for more construction for airports.
Got to admit, the stretch now through Carpinteria is pretty terrific. The construction and third world paving on the cross-overs are but a fading memory. Thanks Cal Trans, you finally done good on that one.
Except now we get stuck in Summerland NB, where they go down from 3 to 2 lanes and folks can't read the signs to figure out that's happening. They end up stopping traffic in the other lane with Sheffield lane on the right also merging. And no idea why people stop where the Cabrillo Construction is.
Thanks for a fun read. I laugh when I hear that the traffic circles are an indication of progress. New Jersey had them in the 1960's, and perhaps even earlier. For fun try driving on the left in England around a "round about" where the flow is clock wise as you shift left handed.
Indeed. I learned to drive in the UK, where I got my first license. Nothing like tackling the Hyde Park Corner roundabout (circle) at 40 miles an hour after a tequila sunrise and a bottle of Schlitz in the original Hard Rock Cafe...
Try doing it with a stick shift rental car when your feet by habit confuse the locations of the brake, clutch and accelerator. Did this once on a road trip around Ireland, found my best defense was to pull over and wait until things were clear or finding a car going in the direction I wanted to go and get behind it.
I even practiced with toy cars on a rug before I left, getting my head around making turns into oncoming traffic. On the "wrong side of the road. Forget trying to parallel park, I just drove around until I could find a spot I could pull directly into.
Folks: I don't see any comments on Arthur von Wiesenberger's terrific song. Click on it (just after the article itself). Unfortunately, it looks like an ad but it's not.
Got in my first car accident on my 21st bday driving through the green light at state crossing to beach when a VW brakes went out, ran through the red light and totaled my new alpha Romeo Spyder convertible, they didn’t have insurance of course.
Everyone was ok but I couldn’t sleep for a week until my car was fixed up.. lol 21 and never will forget those lights crossing the freeway
Not knowing the city at all when I first arrived in the 1970's, I drove around it randomly to get my bearings. I recall noticing some routes took a long, long time to get across town while others did not. That was my own first encounter with "the lights" at 101.
Then came the protracted discussion whether to go over or under 101, after "the lights" were going to finally be removed. We did not want our city cut in half like Ventura, so I think the right final decision was made to go under 101. But now that State Street got closed down, not sure it even matters now. The city got sliced, diced and eviscerated anyway.
Big city council vote today to make this closed State Street madness permanent. Including votes by council members soon to be termed out, who face no accountability for their long string of poor decisions made while sitting on this current city council .
Remembering the great hue and cry not long after after my own arrival here, back in the last century when the good people of Montecito stopped a 101 widening project because X numbers of trees would need to be cut down. Case closed, the widening plan halted, the good people of Montecito took a victory lap and the 101 traffic kept backing up.
I thought at the time, why not just plant a new row of trees next to the proposed 101 widening, so by the time the new highway expansion takes place, the newly mature trees would provide the same screening and sheltering offered by the old row of protected trees that needed to be removed. The innocence from that formerly young mind obviously never got traction, so here we are again - same old, same old, but in new century.
But the wisdom of Sacramento is now as we speak proposing legislation for CalTrans to investigate impacts on surrounding neighborhoods when driving apps redirect traffic on to surface streets. Mark the beginning of next century, when final results of this CalTrans investigation will be provided.
What’s the incentive to finish it? Nice view and endless change orders that are accepted. Welcome to a Ca government run project. Maybe the train to nowhere will come back…..this state is the most corrupt in the nation and the beat continues to go on and on…..
Just close the 101 to car traffic like we did State Street. That will solve it.
Next we close Milpas Street and turn it into a pedestrian mall and e-bike maul.
Thanks for the article. So true and humorous.
It seems as if this construction has been in place since before the Thomas Fire.
Living down South as a Child,I remember the freeway stopping at Bath Street and you had to get off and go through town in order to proceed up North.
Carpinterians have felt the brunt of this construction for many years. Getting to and fro to appointments or schools took extra time due to that.
The calming circles installed seem to cause more traffic as people don't know how to use them. Can you imagine in a fire what these one lane ,no way out circles will cause?
No secret exits or roads due to Google Maps.
Maybe by 2028 we all have flying cars they the need for more construction for airports.
Got to admit, the stretch now through Carpinteria is pretty terrific. The construction and third world paving on the cross-overs are but a fading memory. Thanks Cal Trans, you finally done good on that one.
Except now we get stuck in Summerland NB, where they go down from 3 to 2 lanes and folks can't read the signs to figure out that's happening. They end up stopping traffic in the other lane with Sheffield lane on the right also merging. And no idea why people stop where the Cabrillo Construction is.
Thanks for a fun read. I laugh when I hear that the traffic circles are an indication of progress. New Jersey had them in the 1960's, and perhaps even earlier. For fun try driving on the left in England around a "round about" where the flow is clock wise as you shift left handed.
Indeed. I learned to drive in the UK, where I got my first license. Nothing like tackling the Hyde Park Corner roundabout (circle) at 40 miles an hour after a tequila sunrise and a bottle of Schlitz in the original Hard Rock Cafe...
Try doing it with a stick shift rental car when your feet by habit confuse the locations of the brake, clutch and accelerator. Did this once on a road trip around Ireland, found my best defense was to pull over and wait until things were clear or finding a car going in the direction I wanted to go and get behind it.
I even practiced with toy cars on a rug before I left, getting my head around making turns into oncoming traffic. On the "wrong side of the road. Forget trying to parallel park, I just drove around until I could find a spot I could pull directly into.
Folks: I don't see any comments on Arthur von Wiesenberger's terrific song. Click on it (just after the article itself). Unfortunately, it looks like an ad but it's not.
Anyone remember 'the lights'???
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-19-mn-82-story.html
Yes… born here
Got in my first car accident on my 21st bday driving through the green light at state crossing to beach when a VW brakes went out, ran through the red light and totaled my new alpha Romeo Spyder convertible, they didn’t have insurance of course.
Everyone was ok but I couldn’t sleep for a week until my car was fixed up.. lol 21 and never will forget those lights crossing the freeway
Perfect spot from which to hitchhike in the early 60's
Or for truckers to stop and buy drugs at the infamous vagrant camps under The Fig Tree.
Not knowing the city at all when I first arrived in the 1970's, I drove around it randomly to get my bearings. I recall noticing some routes took a long, long time to get across town while others did not. That was my own first encounter with "the lights" at 101.
Then came the protracted discussion whether to go over or under 101, after "the lights" were going to finally be removed. We did not want our city cut in half like Ventura, so I think the right final decision was made to go under 101. But now that State Street got closed down, not sure it even matters now. The city got sliced, diced and eviscerated anyway.
Big city council vote today to make this closed State Street madness permanent. Including votes by council members soon to be termed out, who face no accountability for their long string of poor decisions made while sitting on this current city council .
Remembering the great hue and cry not long after after my own arrival here, back in the last century when the good people of Montecito stopped a 101 widening project because X numbers of trees would need to be cut down. Case closed, the widening plan halted, the good people of Montecito took a victory lap and the 101 traffic kept backing up.
I thought at the time, why not just plant a new row of trees next to the proposed 101 widening, so by the time the new highway expansion takes place, the newly mature trees would provide the same screening and sheltering offered by the old row of protected trees that needed to be removed. The innocence from that formerly young mind obviously never got traction, so here we are again - same old, same old, but in new century.
But the wisdom of Sacramento is now as we speak proposing legislation for CalTrans to investigate impacts on surrounding neighborhoods when driving apps redirect traffic on to surface streets. Mark the beginning of next century, when final results of this CalTrans investigation will be provided.