Apple Hill Traffic Impacted By New Project Aimed To Make Highway 50 Safer

SACRAMENTO (CBS) — When the upwind changes from summertime to fall, highest play successful Apple Hill is underway.

From Mid-August to December, visitors travel to farms astatine Apple Hill for pome picking, section vendors, nutrient and activities. Now, they bash it without a near turn.

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The explanation: The Camino Highway Safety Project. As the sanction suggests, it’s successful the works to marque U.S. Highway 50 safer.

“The cardinal happening for the region and Apple Hill folks was to marque definite that the play postulation was open, fig one,” said Steve Nelson, Caltrans nationalist accusation officer.

The bulk of the task is to regenerate medians and capable successful gaps connected the road wherever determination wasn’t a median before.

The caller span and nether crossing volition let entree to the northbound and southbound of Highway 50.

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“We’re taking distant each near turns, each left-turn entree astatine intersections,” said Nelson.

One business, adjacent to 1 of the operation epicenters, sees the orangish cones each day.

“The near crook lane unopen down past Thursday connected a time erstwhile we had large events going connected here, and we noticed a large alteration successful postulation travel due to the fact that of that,” said Mike Owen astatine Crystal Basin Cellars.

“Is it painful? Yeah, it’s achy due to the fact that it’s going to beryllium a messiness for 2 years,” said Owen.

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The span enactment is expected to beryllium implicit by Thanksgiving, according to Nelson. The underpass and median enactment is expected to beryllium done successful 2022.