Re: The governor and legislature can fix this in 2024. Why won't they?
Author: FUD
Date: 02-04-2024 - 19:55
Caltrans (and OCTA) did declare an emergency, so stabilization work gets access to money and bypasses some layers of environmental studies. But short-term stabilization (i.e. cleanup and doing fairly temporary things to control the slope) is different from long-term (lasting years) stabilization; the latter usually has to be a Regular Project with all that implies (studies, involvement, competition for money with road projects, etc.). Also, while that may not be a national park, it *is* a state park, and the parks people and the Coastal Commission have a lot of say about what gets done as a longer-term (but not truly long-term which likely would be inland) solution there.