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If you’re heading up Highway 50 toward South Lake Tahoe anytime soon, expect to spend some time in traffic. It’s all part of a $33 million emergency cleanup along the Highway 50 ...
After crews cleared a massive boulder that had tumbled into the highway, a much smaller slide spurred a brief second closure. Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe reopens after rockslides Skip to main ...
For the closures on westbound Highway 50, traffic will be diverted to the northbound I-5 and I-80 interchange from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. ... QuickMap to view current road conditions and to “Be ...
US 50 continues as an undivided highway with one eastbound lane and two westbound lanes until the route reaches the canyon of the South Fork American River at Riverton. The remainder of the highway, which climbs along and out of the canyon, then over the Sierra Nevada at Echo Summit and into the Lake Tahoe Basin, is primarily a two-lane road.
Echo Summit is a mountain pass over the Sierra Nevada in the western United States, located in eastern El Dorado County, California. At 7,377 ft (2,249 m) above sea level , it is the highest point on U.S. Route 50 in California, which traverses it at postmile 66.48 between Twin Bridges and Meyers , south of Lake Tahoe .
A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road. Typically, traffic cameras are put along major roads such as highways, freeways, expressways and arterial roads, and are connected by optical fibers buried alongside or under the road, with electricity provided either by mains power in urban areas, by solar panels or other alternative power sources which provide ...
The mid-morning Sierra slide had forced an emergency closure.
U.S. Route 50 or U.S. Highway 50 (US 50) is a major east–west route of the U.S. Highway system, stretching 3,019 miles (4,859 km) from Interstate 80 (I-80) in West Sacramento, California, to Maryland Route 528 (MD 528) in Ocean City, Maryland, on the Atlantic Ocean.