{"id":4097,"date":"2013-03-13T06:49:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2013-03-18T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:57:00","slug":"devils-slide-returned-to-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/13\/devils-slide-returned-to-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil’s Slide Returned To Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Devil’s Slide tunnels along Highway 1 to open March 25<\/h1>\n
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By Gary Richards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After nearly eight decades of dreaming and several years of digging, Caltrans announced Tuesday that the Highway 1 bypass at Devil’s Slide will open March 25.<\/p>\n

This will be California’s first highway tunnel in nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n

“Everyone is looking forward to the opening,” said state spokesman Bob Haus. “A lot of people have worked very hard for this day.”<\/p>\n

The $439 million twin tunnels through the San Pedro Mountain are the first on a highway in California since the third bore of the Caldecott Tunnel in the East Bay opened in 1964. The area has been the site of eight landslides since Highway 1 opened in 1937, often closing the narrow two-lane road for months at a time and isolating motorists in Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Princeton and Half Moon Bay.<\/p>\n

In addition, every year there are serious and often deadly accidents on the narrow roadway, which twists so sharply that safe drivers are forced to slow to less than 25 mph.<\/p>\n

PHOTO GALLERY<\/b>\u00a0> View more images in this slideshow<\/a><\/p>\n

[ click to read at MercuryNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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