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LOS GATOS — Traffic on Highway 17 is moving in both directions Thursday morning, 12 hours after a mudslide backed up motorists for miles following a mudslide near The Cats restaurant.

Both lanes of southbound Highway 17 are open Thursday morning. Wednesday, the right lane was blocked by a mudslide and disrupted the evening commute to Santa Cruz, and 90-minute delays were reported on 17 between highways 85 and 9 around 9 p.m.

One motorist said it took him six hours to go from Pollard Road to Winchester Boulevard to downtown Los Gatos.

“It never took this long after the 1989 earthquake,” Dan Mayclin wrote in an email to this newspaper around 10:20 p.m. “It may be close to midnight before I am home in Santa Cruz.”