Nojoqui Creek Bridge on Highway 101 and San Jose Creek Bridges on Highway 217 result in overnight road closures

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Two bridge projects, the Nojoqui Creek Bridge and the San Jose Creek Bridges, 5 kick off tonight and come with some partial and full road closures while protective barriers are erected.

A project to widen the Nojoqui Creek Bridge and add railing will result in the long-term closure of the right lanes in both directions of Highway 101 from south of the Nojoqui Creek Bridge to south of the Santa Rosa Road Over-crossing starting Monday, Jul. 17 at 7 p.m.

Those closures will remain in place until mid-January of 2024 detail Caltrans District 5.

While the project to widen the bridges by ten feet and add new state-compliant guardrails, there will be five-foot shoulders through the construction zone for bicyclists.

A project to replace the San Jose Creek Bridge on Highway 217 in Goleta is also scheduled to begin on Monday, Jul. 17.

The planned construction will result in the full closure of Highway 217 in both directions during the overnight hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. both Monday, Jul. 17 and Tuesday, Jul. 18 as protective barriers are erected to protect workers.

The following detours will be in place alongside signage to direct drivers:

• Northbound Highway 217 detour will be to use Sandspit Road to Moffett Place to James Fowler Road to Fairview Avenue to U. S. Highway 101
• Southbound Highway 217 detour will be to use U. S. Highway 101 to Fairview Avenue to James Fowler Road to Moffett Place to Sandspit Road

The southbound Hollister on-ramp and the northbound Sandspit on-ramp will both be closed detail Caltrans District 5.

After those two overnight construction windows with full closures, southbound Highway 217 will be reduced to one lane before the Sandspit Road exit. Two lanes will remain open for now on northbound Highway 217.

This lane reduction will remain in place for the duration of the San Jose Creek Bridge project, expected to be completed in Summer of 2025.

A second San Jose Creek Bridge replacement project started last week on Highway 101 just north of Highway 217.

In that project, the northbound and southbound bridges will be demolished and replaced in separate phases.

On Wednesday, Jul. 19 and Thursday, Jul. 20, the number one and two lanes will be closed during the overnight hours, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the erection of protective barriers. During that window the far-right lane three will remain open in both directions.