Lane closures cause heavy traffic on Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica CA
TrafficHeavy traffic and major lane closures on Pacific Coast Highway are causing severe delays. Roadwork has reduced the highway to one lane in each direction from Santa Monica through Malibu toward the Valley. Speed limits are reduced, and several on-ramps are closed. Commuter traffic is significantly impacted during peak hours due to the ongoing construction and repairs.
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Close to where it changes over to PCH. There's a tunnel.
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And it was foggy there then. As I got down the freeway, I kind of let up.
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I got parked here and it came and it went.
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It just...
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It has a lot to do with the temperature, water temperature and the temperature of the air.
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So,
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anyway, this morning is fairly clear.
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Just a lot of traffic on the freeway going in one direction.
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Just don't know what... I sure would hate to have to drive the PCH.
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It's down to one lane in each direction where normally it's two.
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And from the McClure Tunnel,
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where it starts out is... Santa Monica,
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it drops to 25 miles an hour all the way up into Malibu. So you can just imagine. Most of the time when I take a look at it, it's red and yellow.
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Solid red or both all the way up.
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Boy, I'd sure hate to have to drive that thing every day.
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K6GBO, Papa 4.
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Yeah, I'd agree with that.
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It's bad enough when you get just a traffic accident, traffic jam.
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But having all that narrowed down to one lane has got to be terrible.
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I know down here they had it on the 15 for a while. They have four and five lanes narrowed down to three when they were doing a bunch of construction up there. And it just, it made it a nightmare going north of San Diego into Temecula and it's still kind of... messed up because they're still dinking around with the freeway up there.
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So,
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commuter traffic going that direction is just terrible.
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And coming south in the morning,
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when I go it's not too bad, but later on in the morning I've got guys I know that live up there that drive into San Diego.
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And they say it's just a mess coming down that way.
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K06 CDD.
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Somebody's got their APRS on, and they're on the wrong frequency.
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Sounds like, I don't know what it is.
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Anyway, check your radios, make sure you don't have APRS or whatever on.
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Anyway,
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well, we are a problem. We've got, I use PCH to go to Calabasasasas in Los Hills area.
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I do work with the county on a volunteer basis up there with disaster communication, Los Angeles County.
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And it's,
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I didn't, was it last Saturday? Saturday,
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I was band day,
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maintenance day, and I didn't go because of the way PCH is. And then the prior weekend, I think, was Papa System meets out at Luluz off Rosco and Belboa.
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And the problem with that is toward Friday night, late or early Saturday morning, they shut a lane or two. a lane northbound and a lane south down,
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and it's not too bad going out early in the morning, but you come back in the afternoon, it's a mess.
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And several on-ramps have been closed. They're repairing the road from the UCLA area or Santa Monica Boulevard all the way out past the Valley, past the one-on-one, about a quarter of a miles of Victory Boulevard. It's all messed up.
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Location mentioned:
McClure Tunnel, Santa Monica, CA 90401
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