Congress has approved $2.4 million to study a five-mile, $2 billion tunnel that would be the longest continuous highway tunnel in the US.
It's an elusive missing link: a dotted line on the map that transportation planners have for decades hoped would connect two Los Angeles freeways... But that dotted line runs through a historic neighborhood of California Craftsman homes and tree-lined streets in South Pasadena. For nearly 50 years, residents there have fought the freeway. Just as tenaciously, residents of nearby traffic-weary cities, particularly Alhambra, have battled to have it built.
...The idea of building the longest continuous highway tunnel in the United States by digging under one of the country's most crowded metropolitan regions may seem far-fetched."
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FULL STORY: Tunnel Vision May End Freeway Fight
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