Q: Once again, please remind this reader (and probably others who are also interested) when El Camino Real from San Antonio Road up through Palo Alto is scheduled to be repaved? The drive through that stretch is a challenge.
Lydia Cooper, Menlo Park
A: Hallelujah! The Bay Area’s most pothole-riddled highway is finally going to get repaired.
Beginning Tuesday, May 16, Caltrans maintenance crews will perform two consecutive overnight lane closures of southbound El Camino Real between Hansen Way and Military Way, in Palo Alto. Lane closures will be part of the process in order for Caltrans maintenance crews to safely repave portions of the road. Then the state will begin repairing Highway 82 south toward Interstate 880. Work should take several weeks to be completed by the end of the summer.
Q: I go through the Caldecott Tunnel several times a week and the right eastbound lane remains very wet, well into the middle of the tunnel. Water is seeping through the walls and/or floor. I imagine Caltrans is monitoring it.
I returned through the right westbound tunnel recently and that bore was bone-dry, all the way through. With your insider’s contacts you could possibly find out and report?
Mike Henn, Piedmont
A: And…
Q: We are a vanpool that drives through the Caldecott tunnels daily. We have noticed that the far right one heading east is always wet, even on dry days. It is dripping water, the walls are wet and the pavement is wet. Why? Is it safe? Did all the rain we had this winter saturate the earth above, making it a collapse risk?
A: Caltrans says that the water seeping in the tunnel is a result of the rainy season. With the oversaturation of soil during this year’s unusually high rain amounts, water may seep into the tunnel, but there is no leak or anything wrong with the tunnel structure.
Q: One more about Highway 17. I drive it every week and find it just fine if driven carefully and within speed limits, but I also remember when I was just a kid and the road was first constructed. It was clearly built without the slightest thought that it might ever be a commuter route.
It had three lanes—with the middle one for passing only. The twists and turns made all passing worthy of the frights and thrills of the Big Dipper at the boardwalk. Eventually the edges were scraped and pushed and pulled to barely create four lanes, usually without a decent shoulder. Still, it’s a lot better than it was.
Norm Smith
A: So glad it is better than it was.
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