LOCAL : Caltrans Moves to Shore Up Cliff
Caltrans director Thomas Best is expected to sign a declaration of emergency today, clearing the way for state workers to secure a Pacific Palisades cliff that sent a sheet of earth and rocks crashing onto the Pacific Coast Highway, injuring two drivers, a Caltrans official said.
A 1 1/2-mile-long stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway has been closed since Tuesday’s landslide. Heavy traffic was reported early today on the Ventura Freeway and a number of other major arteries that motorists used to bypass the slide area.
A Caltrans spokesman said the closed portion of the highway could reopen by the evening rush hour.
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