California’s Famous Highway Is Now COLLAPSING Into The Sea!

California’s Famous Highway Is Now COLLAPSING Into The Sea!

California's Pacific Coast Highway ranks among America's most breathtaking routes. stretching over 650 miles, this highway has always been an engineering marvel, as it runs along perilous cliffs. from its inception, constructing this road was a highly complex endeavour, with some people doubting if it could ever be accomplished. As expected, the construction of the roadway was extremely expensive, costing billions of dollars. But for decades since its opening, this highway has struggled to make it through a single year without any road closures due to landslides. When such incidents occur, unfortunately, large sections of the highway are lost, and each year, the state spends millions of dollars to patch up the road in a bid to save the highway. Today let’s delve into the story of the iconic American highway that is now falling into the sea.

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[frankandrews]

Slides along this highway have been occurring since long before climate change was even a thing.

[michaelmcmenzie]

Quit whining about the state paying to fix the roadway the drivers who pay gas tax are paying to fix the roadway so we can drive on it it's called maintenance.

[Dee_nyce]

When you build on the edge of a Cliff, you can sort of expect that. Natural erosion.

[johnpaulm]

Slides along this highway have been occurring since long before this highway was even a thing.

[randallbates]

what a shame. I never new how lucky I was to be able to ride the entire length from Washington to the Mexican border in 1976 without any interruptions.

[ray]

Mother nature will always win, when will man learn.

[JamesMcGillis]

The original highway construction cost millions of dollars, not billions of dollars. Today, it would cost billions.

[garyquail]

The Earth's surface thin layer crust is always shifting about way before mankind was ever around and will continue to do so climate change or not.

[robdedrick]

Crazy thing that Happens to Mountains . They Fall Down . Continuously . Until there is nothing left to Fall .

[Shiryone]

My thoughts? Are people really this ignorant and stubborn? The earth is a living, breathing organism, constantly moving and shifting. Let's keep hitting our heads against these same issues the same way and expect different results. BTW that's the meaning of insanity!

[johndaye]

Climate change? I don’t think you know what climate is.

[thomastrout]

As someone who lives just south of the area in question I can offer up this vis a vis climate change; it is not the rising seas where climate comes into play it is the 44 inches of rain we have received over the past two rainy seasons. Water can be an excellent lubricant and when things get wet and start moving around they often change places. There is no place north of SLO and south of Monterrey that has not been impacted by this drought to deluge scenario, and Sur is just the prettiest and most famous.

[lawyer]

Carmel is generally pronounced Car Mel, not Carm el. In any event, I’m glad that I got to drive on that road. I’d hate to see it disappear, but Mother Nature doesn’t seem to like the road.

[JRH]

That has nothing to do with "climate change" and everything to do with stupidity.

[dannysdailys]

I must say, I took the entire route by motorcycle both ways and it was incredible, breath taking even. Land slides have been a way of life here since the road was built. Climate change has nothing to do with it and is a total fraud. Hwy 1 is my favorite stretch of road in the United States. I-70 through the Colorado Rockies in Winter is my 2nd favorite. They are both incredible and make you feel very small. Going down through Salt Lake City is also very beautiful, as is rolling off the mountain to Albuquerque at night with all the lights. Just breath taking to see it and take it all in. I've been a few places in my life.

[timothyhannon]

Billions? It was built by prison labor. Hardly billions.

[charlotteryner]

AI...STOP calling it Carmel, like it's a sauce for your ice cream! It is car-MEL.

[shaftermike]

The slides have nothing to do with climate. It's because this coast is rising because this is where the Continental plate runs into the Pacific plate, causing the mountains to uplift. The slopes of the mountains are subject to erosion as they rise and steepen. Ate tonic environment!

[carlatamanczyk]

First off get rid of the climate change BS.

[wabbitseason]

HWY 1 problems aren't due to climate change. It's more the geography and engineering.