On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > I have tried Rte 1 as an alternate route to San Francisco. It gets > kinda surrel near Pacifica (Devil's Slide) but it's a shorter stretch. > Anything that brings you to freeeway before SF takes an extra hour. > SInce I am south of Santa Cruz I can also take 101 to 152 and Heckler > Pass, but that's 15mph in places and usually clogged with tailgaters > who drive it daily. Fun road late at night though. > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We lost a good friend on highway 17 when he traveled too fast for >> conditions and hit one of the bridge abutments. The problem is, if you >> want to travel north from Santa Cruz, 17 is the best route. Highway 9 >> is a narrow, winding mountain road, Highway 1 is a narrow, winding >> coast road that takes you miles out of the way. I would give thought >> to moving to Santa Cruz if this was not the case. As is, I'm dealing >> with 2 miles of winding mountain road at this point just to get to >> town, but it's not as bad as any of the Santa Cruz routes. >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> re highway 17: >>> >>> SR 17's combination of narrow shoulders, dense traffic, sharp turns, >>> blind curves, wandering fauna such as deer and mountain lions, and >>> sudden changes in traffic speeds have led to driving conditions that >>> result in a number of accidents and fatalities, leading to the >>> reputation of Highway 17 as one of the most dangerous highways in the >>> state. >> >>
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