FAIRFIELD — The California Department of Transportation, the Solano Transportation Authority , and the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency will continue storm drain work in preparation of widening Highway 12 through Jameson Canyon in Napa and Solano Counties. Intermittent lane closures and one-way traffic controls will be implemented starting Sunday. Five nights of overnight intermittent [...]
RIO VISTA — Representatives from the Moving Forward Highway 12 study were met with skepticism and concern Wednesday at a workshop discussing the study’s latest activities. Community members were invited to review and comment on their activities during a presentation and subsequent discussion of the study’s findings and recommendations. Those affected by the potential changes to [...]
FAIRFIELD — Motorists traveling between Solano and Napa counties at night this week on Highway 12 will face periodic lane closures and one-lane traffic control. Workers are widening Highway 12 in Jameson Canyon from two lanes to four lanes. Through Thursday, periodic lane closures are to take place from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The [...]
FAIRFIELD — A proposed master plan for regional Highway 12 calls for making the road four lanes wide in the Rio Vista area, but not for the highway’s entire length. The multiple-agency study considered what it calls “the ultimate” version of local Highway 12 — making the road at least four lanes, two going each [...]
SUISUN CITY — Solano and Napa counties could try again to establish a shuttle service for commuters traveling between the two areas on Highway 12 through Jameson Canyon. The two counties could apply to the state Department of Transportation for a grant to run a one-year, $415,700 pilot program. Since the grant program requires a [...]
NAPA — Public officials turned dirt with golden shovels Wednesday for the ceremonial kickoff to the Highway 12 widening project in Jameson Canyon. Now the bulldozers can begin the real work that will last into 2015. The state Department of Transportation will widen the 5.7-mile stretch to four lanes and install a median barrier. The [...]
FAIRFIELD — A key missing segment of the long-planned Jepson Parkway could soon take shape on paper and be under construction in two to three years. This project will widen five miles of Vanden and Leisure Town roads from two lanes to four lanes in Fairfield, rural Solano County and Vacaville. In Fairfield, the segment [...]
FAIRFIELD — Highway 12 is the region’s $6.3 billion corridor. That’s how much economic activity is generated annually in ZIP codes along the corridor by households, businesses and governments, economist Robert Fountain said. A big contributor is manufacturing, especially food processing, he said. He and others talked about Highway 12 at Thursday’s Solano Economic Development [...]
FAIRFIELD — Highway 12 in Solano County has thousands of cars and trucks traveling along it each day, but no one has ever figured out exactly what that means for the local economy. That’s about to change. The Solano Economic Development Corp. is studying Highway 12′s economic impact. “Interstate 80 gets all the attention,” Solano [...]
FAIRFIELD — Work is beginning on widening Highway 12 through Jameson Canyon and the Daily Republic wants to hear from commuters who use this road. We want to know what traffic is like now on the commute between Fairfield and Napa and how big of a difference you think a four-lane road will make. We [...]
FAIRFIELD — For Fairfield resident Betty Livingston, walking is a way to explore the world around her. She enjoys hiking in such out-of-county locations as Point Reyes, as well as walking in town. And she sees the rewards. “There is so much beauty around you, you just miss it staying in the house,” Livingston said. [...]
It’s time to set the record straight concerning comments attributed to a member of the Fairfield City Council that described the Solano Transportation Authority as being “a runaway train,” and the value of Solano County’s community leaders traveling to Washington, D.C., in an effort to bring federal transportation dollars back to Fairfield and Solano County. [...]
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