Transportation agency looks to head off rockslides on Highway 1

Published December 2, 2008, 3:49 pm, The San Luis Obispo Tribune

By Kevin Howe -- Highway 1 on the Big Sur Coast is braced for the winter storm season — literally. Last summer’s fires triggered a race against the clock by the state Department of Transportation to avoid a repeat of massive slides that inundated parts of Big Sur Village and closed the two-lane highway after the Marble Cone Fire in 1972. That fire was followed by heavy rains that began Nov. 15, ...

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