The fourth construction season for upgrading an eight-mile stretch of Highway 20, between Smartsville and Browns Valley, is wrapping up. And while the major work has been completed, Cal Trans Public Information Officer Gilbert Mohtes-Chan says you’ll still find some intermittent one-way controlled traffic for a while longer…

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Cal Trans had hoped to completely wrap up the project this year. But Mohtes-Chan says there is still some repaving work that will need to be done next spring, when the weather is warmer. Then the final striping can be done…

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That’s the Dry Creek Bridge, which is less than a mile east of Marysville Road. And two passing areas that had been closed for a couple of years, not far from the Parks Bar Bridge, have now re-opened, with one longer than it had been. Another passing area also reopened on a new bridge that links with the Parks Bar Bridge.