The north end of the Devil's Slide tunnel, due to open around the end of 2011.
Posted on 06/19/2010 10:38:58 AM PDT by thecodont
Even on the most idyllic sunny day on the San Mateo County coast, it's chilly, dark, dusty, muddy and noisy deep inside San Pedro Mountain, where construction crews are digging twin tunnels to carry traffic around Devil's Slide.
But despite the gloomy atmosphere, workers are making major progress on the $325 million tunnel project, which includes a pair of arched bridges and an operations center. The buildings and the bridges are finished, and the tunnel diggers are expected to bust through the north end of the mountain by this fall. A little more than a year later, the finished tunnel should open to traffic.
No one will be happier than residents of the coastal communities who depend on that scenic but unstable stretch of Highway 1.
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The north end of the Devil's Slide tunnel, due to open around the end of 2011.
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That’s some significant construction going on there.
I ride by there on my motorcycle on the (old) road there on the right.
Jeez, it isn’t even open, and already there is a traffic jam!
That’s the valet parking.
Ah.
I spent more than 10 years of my life commuting on that old road. It was a death trap when there was fog. You had a cliff on one side and couldn’t see the road, My ex father-in-law spent his entire career cleaning rocks and mud off that road. It is nice to see an alternative, but wonder how the ease of traffic will affect all the little communities like Montara, Moss Beach and Half Moon Bay.
Right on the San Andreas fault line. Your government at work once again.
I was thinking a similar thing, wouldn’t it be nice to be inside a mountain tunnel and have an earthquake hit and collapse it on you?
Looks like a very nice bike road.
Nah, it’s good 5 miles off of the fault that slipped 8 feet in 1906.
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