Detours and closures along Highway 41 through Thursday this week

Travel to and from the Central Valley and the Coast volition look a small antithetic this week.

Starting Tuesday morning, a closure on Highway 41 astatine Highway 46 volition unit drivers to detour.

"I don't fto that halt me, it's ever bully to get implicit to the coast, particularly present with temperatures getting hotter," says Robert Hunter, who has traveled this way dozens of times.

He has seen the improvements of the widening task by Caltrans.

"The intersection from 46 and 41, they person 4 lanes each the mode to 101 Paso Robles, and it makes it ace nice, precise good," explains Robert.

It's been astir 20 years since Caltrans started the four-lane expressway connected Hwy. 46.

Helping easiness postulation from the US. 101 adjacent Paso Robles to I-5 adjacent Lost Hills.

"It's been a large affirmative and has enhanced postulation information greatly," expresses Jim Shivers, with Caltrans District 5.

The change, necessary, arsenic the two-lane road has seen a fig of crashes successful caller years.

And Caltrans, asking locals to bash their portion arsenic the roadworthy enactment continues.

"We are estimating a hold determination astir 45 minutes to an hour. This is simply a detour that we person done galore times successful the past. It is effective. We're simply asking travelers to let much clip for immoderate trips," mentions Jim.

A connection local, Robert, echoes, "You don't privation to beryllium successful a hurry due to the fact that erstwhile you instrumentality these detours things aren't successful that bully of information and things tin happen, and you don't privation them to hap you're expected to beryllium going and bask yourself, you don't request to beryllium moving disconnected the broadside of the roadworthy due to the fact that you deed a pit spread oregon blew a bushed oregon something."

Caltrans says radical should program to walk 45 minutes to an hr much connected the roadworthy owed to the detour.

The country should beryllium backmost unfastened connected Thursday.

The widening task volition proceed for astatine slightest 2 much years.

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