Santa Barbara’s State Route 192 to Be Closed for Five Weeks Starting September 16
Traffic Signals Control One-Way Traffic This Week Near Parma Park as Caltrans Repairs Storm-Damaged Road
Last week Caltrans sent out a press release announcing that repair work on a section of road near Parma Park would result in the complete closing of SR 192 from Alamar Avenue to Sycamore Canyon Road for five weeks. This is a large area, more than 3.5 miles, and the closure puzzled many motorists and nearby residents. A chunk of hillside just west of Parma Park had fallen away, the result of this year’s heavy spring rains, but it was a relatively smaller area.
To further confuse the issue, 192 is known by many names along the area of the proposed closures — Foothill Road, Mountain Ridge Road, Stanwood Drive, and Sycamore Canyon Road.
Turns out the parameters of the closure had been suggested by field engineers, but after receiving a flurry of questions from residents, Caltrans decided to shrink the work-zone closure.
This week, traffic signals are controlling one-way traffic at the landslide below Stanwood Drive. The following week, beginning on September 9, the traffic will be allowed to flow freely. Then, on Monday, September 16, a short stretch of road from Orizaba to Parma Park will be closed for about five weeks, or somewhere around October 18, as crews construct a retaining wall.
To bypass the work zone by taking the 101, motorists are advised to turn off SR 192 at Alamar on the west and Sycamore Canyon Road on the east to get down to the highway. Other routes visible on maps also wind over the Riviera hills to zigzag around the slide area via Mission Ridge, Las Alturas, and Conejo roads.
