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   Jeri Dansky (jeridansky@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 15:51:34 JST Jeri Dansky

   @ai6yr Ben, did you see this about Highway 1 getting fully re-opened? Gift link:
   https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/pacific-coast-highway-reopened.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1A.Z57c.SjdnoBwcN2JC&smid=url-share

   The region ... has more than 1,500 active slide areas, making it among the most landslide-prone areas in the Western United States. ... In some places, chunks of the road have slipped into the ocean. In others, more than a million tons of earth have barreled onto the highway, slicing it to pieces. Bridges have failed. Rainstorms have flooded the road with mud. Residents have been left marooned. Tourists have been shut out.

   In May, the slide on the shuttered stretch of road was moving more than a foot a day, making the site so treacherous that the California Department of Transportation ... used remote-controlled bulldozers to keep workers safe. Mr. Newsom said that Caltrans had managed to stabilize the slopes with thousands of steel reinforcements drilled up to 60 feet deep, and in the days leading up to the reopening, the agency had removed about 240 dump trucks’ worth of mud and debris from the site.