"California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular cliffs of Big Sur. The famed coastal road was closed for more than three years after two major landslides buried the two-lane highway, and it took unprecedented engineering might and precarious debris removal to once again connect northern Big Sur with its southern neighbors."
"But no one expects this will be the end of Highway 1's battle with the forces of nature, especially in a world facing the intensifying effects of human-caused climate change. "We, in Big Sur, know to plan with a grain of salt," said Matt Glazer, executive director of Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, located near the northern end of the closure. "This is a snapshot in time, and the ever-changing coast of Big Sur is something that makes it beautiful.""
An uninterrupted stretch of Highway 1 through Big Sur reopened after more than three years of closure caused by two major landslides. Unprecedented engineering efforts and precarious debris removal restored the two-lane coastal connection between northern and southern Big Sur. The roadway routinely closes from rockslides, mudflows, flooding, wildfires and coastal erosion across many coastal sections. The recent closure, likely the longest in the highway's 90-year history, underscores mounting concerns about the route's ability to withstand increasingly strong and unpredictable storms, higher seas and fires. Climate change is already increasing the frequency of extreme events that accelerate erosion and trigger landslides.
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