How To Savor Your Crawl Up the 405 Freeway
Don’t Sweat the Closure on Sunset. Instead, Join Me On a Miraculous Tour Through Jurassic L.A.
If you’re among the 300,000 or so commuters who crawl through the Sepulveda Pass every day, you’ve surely noticed the $950-million construction project that is adding an extra lane to both sides of the 405 Freeway. You’ve no doubt spied the giant earthmovers slicing through the mountain. And at some point your gaze has rested on the eight-story-tall retaining walls doing their best to hold back the Santa Monica Mountains.
Although expensive, inconvenient, and (some argue) unnecessary, those new cuts through the mountains thrill me. I’m a geologist, and the massive …
