Menlo Park: Night construction, highway closures at Willow/101 project

Who approved heavy concrete demolition to take place at 2am a few feet from residential neighborhoods? I get it for the nights they have to close 101 as being unavoidable. But Tuesday night the road was open but heavy pounding for hours after midnight. Does the city have ANY influence on this project?

Menlo Park has no say in the matter - but, cant imagine anyone living near a fwy expecting quiet nights all the time.
Years ago people in Palo Alto complained about the traffic and noise on their street from soccer - at a school that had been there since before the neighborhood was built.
A few nights of discomfort for years of extra traffic congestion sounds like a pretty good starting point to the downfall of our beloved small town.

Thanks for the informative article. Good to know what the noise was and about future work and road closures.

Caltrans might have attempted to notify nearby residents of unusually loud late p.m./early a.m. demolition.

I live near Marsh rd and US 101. The Marsh rd US 101 interchange was poorly planned, so is the Willow rd US 101 interchange Menlo Park . the real cause of the Willow rd poor plan , is the Facebook business, it's just to big. The west bound willow rd from us 101 use to be four lanes, today to much traffic on only two traffic lanes. The increase of traffic because of Facebook ,town square will have a negative impact ont Menlo Park other areas like Marsh road , university.ave, middlefield rd etc. who planned the willow interchange? Facebook developers? Caltrans ? Poor planning , thousands of more cars everyday onto small streets.