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Caltrans Electrician 1 Jorge Lopez was struck by an errant big rig on State Route 14 Sept. 1, 2016.

Each year, at the start of the construction season, Caltrans holds memorial ceremonies throughout the state to honor and remember employees who lost their lives building, maintaining, and operating California’s world-class transpo ...

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We place safety as our top priority at Caltrans. Safety does not happen because someone tells us to be safe or because it is written down somewhere in a book. Safety happens because it is our life, our time.

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The CTF Transportation Forum in February brought together California’s transportation community and policy makers, who are getting closer to a funding package. Attendees heard from Federal Highway Administration Acting Deputy Admi ...

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Caltrans Pulga Maintenance Station Equipment Operator John Barton cleared away rocks on Highway 70 to allow the ambulance carrying ill newborn Casey Bakker, and his Plumas County family to reach the University of California, Davis, Children’s Hospital during a storm.

A Plumas County family has reached out to Caltrans to say thank you after a scary incident on Highway 70 back in December. Cheyenne and Kyle Bakker battled winter weather to get their newborn from Quincy to Sacramento. Now they s ...

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