Caltrans is lowering speed limits on a section of state Highway 9, a mountainous two-lane highway in Santa Cruz County.

The state transportation agency recently did an engineering and traffic survey of a section of the highway stretching more than 11 miles from near Exit Road at the city limits of Santa Cruz north to the Boulder Creek area.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.