Aging infrastructure, water issues keep some rest areas closed along California freeways

Q: Ben Nunnally of Riverside asked for more details about why so many of California’s freeway rest areas are closed. He felt our recent column that discussed rest stops closures didn’t provide enough from Caltrans.

“The rest stop issue has been talked about, written about for years, with not much change,” he said. Nunnally also asked for contact information for state representatives within the rest areas’ districts so readers could contact them and get their elected officials involved.

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