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Section of Central Coast highway closed by emergency road repairs

Caltrans is making emergency road repairs on Highway 154 north of Santa Barbara, to repair road cracks.
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Caltrans is making emergency road repairs on Highway 154 north of Santa Barbara, to repair road cracks.

Foot deep cracks found on section of Highway 154.

A section of a Central Coast highway has been closed for emergency repairs, after large cracks started appearing on the roadway's shoulder.

The damage is on Highway 154 north of Santa Barbara, near San Antonio Creek. Some of the cracks were reported to be a foot deep.

The highway has been closed from Highway 192 to the Highway 154-246 interchange. Traffic between Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley has been rerouted onto Highway 101.

There's no word on when it will reopen.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.