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Highway 99 at Pixley still closed. 12:40 p.m. Sunday: A portion of Highway 99 in Pixley near Avenue 96 remained closed, according to Caltrans’ road conditions map. The stretch was closed ...
Two crashes closed three lanes, CHP said.
A look at the winter storm that continues to lash the Fresno area on Saturday: CHP: Grapevine will reopen Sunday morning. 8 p.m. Saturday The California Highway Patrol said Interstate 5 in the the ...
The Grapevine is subject to severe weather and closure to traffic in winter. The stretch of I-5 through the Grapevine and the Tejon Pass is sometimes closed by the California Highway Patrol , [ 6 ] generally because of the icy conditions combined with the steep grade of the pass, and the high volume of traffic during the winter holidays.
Car engines frequently overheat when ascending the long grade, especially in hot weather. The 40-mile stretch of Interstate 5 between Grapevine and Castaic is sometimes closed by the California Highway Patrol, [20] generally because of the icy conditions combined with the steep grade of the pass, and the high traffic during the winter holidays ...
At Grapevine the land flattens out, and the road north of Grapevine was the longest straight section of road in the state—17 miles (27 km)—in 1926. Most of this road lies under I-5 and SR 99, but the southernmost piece in Grapevine was bypassed by the Alternate west of it, and is now between southbound and northbound lanes of I-5. [25]
The California Highway Patrol said that a runaway big rig ran off the roadway around 12:15 p.m., spilling “several thousand” pieces of metal in the northbound lanes just south of Grapevine Road.
Interstate 5 traffic was closed down on the Grapevine entirely late Wednesday as the Route Fire exploded into 5,200 acres starting at about noon, the California Department of Transportation said.