Highway 101 lane closures coming weeknights to repair Hill Fire damage on Conejo Grade

Repairs to a stretch of Highway 101 damaged by the Hill Fire will bring nighttime lane closures along the Conejo Grade that could delay drivers.

Starting Monday night, the slow lane on both the northbound and southbound sides of the freeway will be shut from Wendy Drive in Newbury Park to Camarillo Springs Road at the base of the grade in Camarillo.

The closures will run from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weeknights for as long as the project takes, according to the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans.

Crews will be installing new K-rail, replacing damaged guardrail and fencing, clearing drainage lines, removing burned debris and applying erosion control to burned slopes.

Motorists should expect delays, the agency said.

The Hill Fire started in the Santa Rosa Valley on the afternoon of Nov. 8, jumping the freeway and raging in hillsides behind CSU Channel Islands as it chewed through 4,531 acres and destroyed two homes in the Newbury Park area. The larger Woolsey Fire also started in Ventura County that day, as did the massive Camp Fire in Northern California.

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