HIGHWAY 1 AT DEVIL'S SLIDE - Documentary

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Wow! What a professional project! This is an excellently produced video as well!

That`s great you finally got your Tunnel built. Was talked about long enough, and all the dignatery`s are all happy now.
I retired from Caltrans back in 2006, and funny all the bickering and negative that kept get slung around back then. Typical government.
After all the years of setting aside Bicycle lanes, you still need to paint a stencil to tell them which side to ride on and an Arrow to tell which direction to go. When are bicycles going to be taxed a Road Tax? They need to pay their fair share.
Cost millions to build the tunnel, now millions to maintain the Bicycle lane. It will eventually fall into the Ocean and or slides onto the road.

Bravo CalTrans! Excellent documentary explaining the complexities, community engagement, and the process of continuous improvement. You all have raised the bar for public entities, fulfilling their various missions for the public good. Thank you!

Did my tax dollars go to make this video? Why? Watch and listen closely. We could have built it in the '70s but it would have been too expensive. We had to wait 40 years so added regulations would cost us more. If you read between the lines this could be seen as another example of bureaucracy at its worst.

Good to see our old friend the felon Leland Yee there. I hope you were able to get a good chunk of this money for your racketeering, money laundering, and gun running schemes. There was probably plenty to go around.

I like the guy painting the rocks. They look so real!

Why does 380 westbound from the airport go slightly beyond 280 where it intersects and then a portion of 380 heads directly into the side of the mountain at this spot and completely dead ends? Was there a plan at one time to also build a tunnel extending 380 westbound through the mountain and to connect along the coast with CA 1 but was never undertaken? I always wondered about why 380 did not simply intersect with 280 but had that tiny segment go toward the mountain, as if to enter a tunnel at that spot. It even looks like that would be the spot a tunnel would have begun. Does someone on Caltran know why?

wealthy people wining about their money boo hoo

Think of how much climate change this vanity project caused. Keep thinking. Think hard, get back to me.

It was great until Leland Yee was pictured. Convicted gun runner Leland Yee. Who sought additional gun control for California citizens, but was trafficking guns himself. Boo!

How's that high speed rail system coming along Caltrans? It should of been done by now

The best thing about this project is that they turned to old Devil's Slide alignment into a pedestrian trail. It's awesome (though parking is a bitch). The veiws are spectacular.

Just so people know, the tunnels opened in 2013, over a decade ago. This is not "new" news. It is cool seeing some of the work being done though. Would love to see a more detailed documentary of the construction process.

Monterey County….Pay Attention!

Except they used eminent domain and stole every bit of that property

This was only done to accommodate the coastal elites

So Cal trans feels it's necessary to have a piano playing loudly in the background while the speakers are trying to make themselves heard above the din?

Cal Trans public disinformant..

Hwy 1 was subsidized by the State & Federal Govt since it's conception. Those "communities" were tourist traps and still are. So once again, all of America I paying to realign Hwy 1 AWAY from the coast and subsidizing a bike trail.

The part of Highway 1 that is bypassed by the tunnel is now a recreational trail. I have walked it too many times to count. It is so steep in parts--up to a 9% grade if I remember correctly.

XLNT - WAS IN HMB WHEN THE 2006 "SLIP-'N-'SLIDE" OCCURRED. USED CA 92 TO GET BACK TO THE CITY. NICE WEAVING DRIVE. THE CALDECOTT GOT ANOTHER BORE SO BAY AREA ACCESSIBILITY IS UP-TO-DATE!

I was a Coastside resident and drove that treacherous stretch of dark, twisting two-lane road thousands of nights over my eight years of living in Half Moon Bay. The 1980s were wet years and we Coastsiders experienced a half-dozen closures of the Slide, along with closures of the main road east, Cal 92 "over-the-hill" to San Mateo.

Two of our three sons were born during that period of my life, and with simultaneous closures of both Highways 1 and 92, the isolation of Coastside families from a full-time medical facility was a terrifying prospect.

I'll likely never have an opportunity to travel that familiar route again, this time through your beautiful tunnel, but I congratulate the determination of Coastside residents for finally building this safe and reliable access to and from your communities.

It took longer to bicker about the tunnel, construction methods, and get funding (took 10 years if I recall) than it took to actually build it.

The 6 steps of a project
1) the plan
2) excitment and enthusiasm
3) concern
4) a Hunt for the Guilty
5) Punnishment of the innocent
6) Praise and honors for the non participants

PAREIDOLIA- THE STATUESQUE IMAGES FROM THE LOUNGING PERSON ON THEIR RIGHT SIDE- HEAD RESTING ON RIGHT PALM & LEFT ACROSS THE BELLY, THE SEATED PERSON OUR PERSPECTIVE LOOKING DOWN UPON HIS HEAD BELOW THAT, MATURE MAN AS THE KEYSTONE & ANOTHER WHOSE ARMS RESTING ON A THE SILL- AS IF LOOKING DEEPLY INTO A WINDOW TO THE WOMAN HEADING UP THE MOUNTAIN SIDE, W CHILD- WOMAN SITTING WITH LONG FLOWING HAIR & A FAMILY UP HIGHER A CHILD BEHIND THE MAN BEHIND HER, SHE LEANING BACK INTO HIM A FEW THINGS I'LL LEAVE TO THE STRAIGHT UP IMAGINATION OF ONE WHO IS LOOKING ON... YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE- THE ARTISANS WHO WERE GIVEN THE FREEDOM TO SCULPT THE FACADE ARE BRILLIANT & SURELY MANY WILL SPEND COUNTLESS HOURS ENJOYING THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU

China could build this in a week

I thought this tunnel would NEVER get built.
I first heard about devils slide way back in 1983 when I was a 12 yr old 5th grader.
Through the years I heard the same debate; tunnel or not which led me to believe this wouldn’t ever happen.
Still amazed every time I ride my motorcycle through that tunnel.

Why were the frog counters in the rowboat wearing hard hats?

Same thing going on with Last Chance Grade in Del Norte. We’ll be getting a tunnel also.

What about the gold found ?

So the delays and double the cost was due to trying to save some fucking useless frogs, environmentalist are fucking ridiculous, frogs lives over the public safety is a fucking JOKE.

The reality is Highway 1 should never have been built. It's as if there was a decision not to believe the ocean will eventually eat away the coastline as it always has. Now billions of California taxpayer dollars have to be used to maintain it.

This is just Caltrans propaganda.

I drove on the part that is now bypassed at least once, in the summer of '89, going northbound. It would have been just another stretch of highway to me. I remember years later seeing political signs in Pacifica or Half Moon Bay that said "Think Tunnel".

Water quality? How is water quality affected?

You know you fix all this. You tell the regulators to go bye-bye we don't need you. You're not welcome in California if destroyed, the state of California destroyed my home and you build it and you build it right the first time and you tell him we're not giving you any more money. We're going to build it at a cost. It's affordable for all California

I wish my Dad was still here to see the completion of this wonderful project. He would always prefer taking 'the slide way,' as he called it, to the City.

Screw all those stupid environmental regulations, mitigation...for the good of the project. One time exceptions. It's amazing ANYTHING can get built is California anymore. What would have been a 35 million dollar project would have cost 175 million by the time all the fees, study's, impact reports... are paid for. Sounds like job security to me. California is OVER REGULAED. STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCTATS. They are killing the state with taxes, and regulations. NEWSOM TERMS OUT IN 28. Time to vote for a REPUBLICAN FOR A POSITIVE CHANGE.

Environmental this, environmental that, this is California Democrats making sure what should take a few days, takes years.

I miss Devil's Slide. As you come out of Pacifica heading South, I loved the view you got just as you crested the top and turned to the Left, and there in front, below, and to both sides was The Pacific Ocean in all of it's Glory.
Granted that the tunnel was needed, but that run has never been the same since they built it.
Still, Well Done CalTrans.