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Construction contractors will perform sign and barrier placement on Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass area, California Department of Transportation announced.
The crash in Southern California involved 19 cars and left 35 people injured. Officials say visibility was poor in the area due to heavy fog.
In the Cajon Pass, three people were stranded in a tree early Monday after their car was flooded out while they tried to cross a submerged area, along Keenbrook Road around Cajon Boulevard.
Cajon Pass is known for high wind, turbulence and fog. [12] The weather over the pass can vary from foggy days with poor visibility to clear afternoons where aircraft are bounced by gusting Santa Ana winds that top 80 mph (130 km/h).
It is a major thoroughfare for traffic between San Diego and the Inland Empire, as well as between Southern California, Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Intermountain West. South of its junction at I-8 in San Diego, the highway becomes SR 15, extending 6.13 miles (9.87 km) [ 1 ] to I-5 , about 12 miles (19 km) from the Mexico–United States border .
The Summit Inn, a diner and filling station originally located in 1928 at the summit of the Cajon Pass, moved to Oak Hills, California when the highway was re-routed in 1952. Its visitors include Elvis Presley , reported to have kicked the jukebox and left without dining after finding none of his own records among the available selections.
State Route 138 then descends through the West Cajon Valley and crosses Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass. From Interstate 15 to State Route 173, near the northwest corner of Silverwood Lake, traffic on State Route 138 is rather sparse. The remaining road past Silverwood Lake is mountainous, narrow, and twisting, and not a prime mountain route to ...
The California Transportation Commission announced the allocation of more than $2.2 billion to repair and improve infrastructure throughout the state.