Last winter, Jennifer Gilbert drove into Guerneville, but the bohemian town she’d loved since childhood seemed to be gone. Barricades choked block after block of Main Street. Construction vehicles and equipment were strewn about. Instead of stopping, she kept driving.
“I thought, ‘Oh no what happened? ’” the Woodside resident said.
Fast-forward to June, and Caltrans construction barricades still lined Main Street, with seemingly no place for pedestrians to walk. Rivertime Restaurant and Bar owner Leslie “Jo” Crane said she routinely found orange-and-white striped barricades blocking the door of her business without warning, but she couldn’t afford to close so she would push them aside…