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December 9, 2025: Full discussion of Caltrans District 10 Concrete Median Installation in Murphys (Project #10-1R430). Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting. Staff Updates by Micah Martin, Public Works Director, who handed off commentary of Caltrans projects in Calaveras County to Caleb Brock, Caltrans District 10's Deputy District Director Planning, Local Assistance and Environmental.

First public comment: Christopher Buttner, Publisher of Calaveras2026Election.com, Delivers General Public Comments During the December 9, 2025 Regular Meeting of the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors On Data Analysis Derived from CHP and Caltrans Responsive Records Received from Public Records Requests on the Matter of the Caltrans District 10 Concrete Median Installation in Murphys (Project #10-1R430). Read all the 10-1R430 reports at http://www.Calaveras2026Election.com.

"My name is Christopher Buttner, publisher of Calaveras2026Election.com.

It has now been ninety days, without an acceptable resolution, since Caltrans installed the concrete median in Murphys on SR 4.

Two weeks ago I stated here that Caltrans was not without fault in this concrete median debacle, and that we would review important findings and facts at today’s board meeting.

The data-driven justification Caltrans used for the median project was flawed.

Facts and statistics support the argument that Caltrans made an error in judgement with their limited and aging dataset used to justify this concrete median for installation during fiscal year 2025-2026, burdening our community with an unnecessary highway hazard.

I recently filed public records requests with the California Highway Patrol and with Caltrans.

My analysis of the preliminary responsive records received to date from Caltrans, and the official final responsive records just received from CHP, indicate the May 2019 to March 2022 Caltrans Traffic Collision Report Summary that was used to justify the project, was a statistical anomaly.

The collision rate was 17 collisions in 34 months during the Caltrans study period from mid-2019 to early-2022. That’s 6 collisions per year during the Caltrans study of that one-half mile segment of SR 4.

Newly-received and analysed CHP data reveals collisions per year have notably declined on average in the 44 months since the end of this Caltrans study period.

CHP’s data specifically reveals that there have only been 12 collisions in those last 44 months, inclusive of November 2025, on that same one-half mile segment of SR 4. That’s only 3.27 collisions per year on average over the last 44 months, a reduction by nearly half. That reduction in collisions per year represents a very significant metric that Caltrans failed to consider.

Notably, there were no fatalities during this most recent 44 month timeframe.

I’ve previously mentioned that the fatal accident Caltrans cited as partial justification for the median occurred more than six years ago, in August 2019, and more than thirteen-one-hundredths of a mile – or two football fields – east of the controlled intersection from where the concrete median ends.

There is now more than enough empirical evidence obtained from this newly-received and analyzed CHP Traffic Collision data to validate and justify the community’s sentiment and demand – nineteen-hundred voices strong and growing by online petition – for the full removal of the concrete median and the restoration of SR 4 from postmile 29.49 to postmile 29.62.

My name is Christopher Buttner, publisher of Calaveras2026Election.com – a government watchdog and accountability blog."

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