Big Sur cut off from Northern California after Highway 1 slide 

High price to pay for a scenic tour of the California coast line. A friend of mine Sister was employed by CalTrans and working on the road in Big Sur died and his body was never recovered when the hill side sid into the ocean when he was working on the road on Hwy 1..

This always happens

Seems like this happens every year. Drop the EPA restrictions and build better roads for half the money.

Maybe they’ll CUT into the hillside more (15-30 feet) to curve the road away from the ocean??

It’s funny cuz they always said California was gonna fall in the ocean

I'm so glad Biden passed the BIPARTISAN infrastructure bill. Build, cracks, better. 😂

Whoa, that's unfortunate time & place for multiple slipouts happen along critical stretches over 60 km, a double whammy stranding a couple thousand folks!😟Appears that walls of cliffside detached along sections but portend other actions happening. Definitely challenging area to maintain infrastructure, though iconic route & well deserved title because when visit Big Sur & drive along PCH then always remember. While aware of general geography, geology, climate, & environmental factors, but unsure about various parcel details & else, property at risk near that slope, present state of the vegetation, risk, hazard, & catastrophe, ... perhaps reroute while determine how engineer for future risks because those sections already prone to slipouts (any detailed record of occurence & frequency?), land use & alteration along the slope, amid the canyons, & about the region. Beside undercut by waves then vaster area always encounter mass wasting along with alluvium from Big Sur watershed with a catchment basin ringed by Santa Lucia mountains that has a prominent coastal peak & formidable topography with relatively high slope gradient amid the region that is Monterey county CA. Obviously (to anybody visited or may be aware by interwebs) there are numerous fantastic bridges which transit across canyons, rivers, & creeks, although streams may not readily appear but various precip possible, from atop the mountains to the ocean, water will flow, permeate, & affect the area, as mentioned by the report, present rain further exposing & enhancing the hazards along with the erosion. Stay safe & well.

Yikes

Weak infrastructure

Why is there no way out? Just use the lane that's still intact.

We have roadway next to the Atlantic ocean, in Virginia, but our roads are great. Our cars aren't falling into the ocean. Hmm, wonder why???

Fall California fall!

It will take 10 years to build the collapse bridge in Baltimore..

our crumbling infrastructure 😕😕😕😕😕😕

I’ve been driving the Big Sur coastal Hwy 1 since 1986. First, as a byway on my way back and forth between Northern California and Cal Poly, SLO, and since then since recreationally. It’s an awesome highway but has been battered by inclimate weather in the last few years, not to mention the havoc wreaked by fires. These last few storms seemed aimed right into this region so I wasn’t surprised to see a closure. Nevertheless, Hwy 1 between Carmel and San Simeon is a valuable asset for the region. I look forward to the road reopening so I can return to such a sensational region of California.

Drive up the Northern coast. Much more scenic and the Redwoods National Park

I thought he had the biggest man bun in the world for a second 😂😂😂 was asking myself why he’d wanna wash all that when I realized it was his shadow😂

Been there many times. Most of those times one lane open.

Get i together horrible road

Doesn't the military have temporary bridges that they can deploy.

Any competent operator with a dozer could cut a bypass around that in short order. How many CalTrans workers does it take to figure that out?