What’s the definition of “dumb?” It’s THIS:
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) – Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles’ suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable – an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country.
Critics question the logic of building a multibillion-dollar project in a region so prone to earthquakes that an alternate proposal for a double-decker highway was deemed too dangerous. The tunnel would begin barely a mile from a fault that produced a 6.0-magnitude earthquake about a century ago.
“It’s absolutely absurd to have a tunnel 700 feet below ground in earthquake country,” said Cathryn DeYoung, mayor of Laguna Niguel and a vocal opponent. “I mean, would you want to be in that tunnel?”
Did you just hear a noise? It probably was a screech of terror and frustration from insurance companies (California is already NOT one of their favorite states) AND:
Planners are due to make a decision in mid November on whether to pursue the project.
The proposal for what would be the world’s second-longest road tunnel would create a new path between sprawling inland suburbs and Orange County, which has become one of Southern California’s fastest-growing job centers.
Such a project could cost up to $9 billion and take 25 years.
Well, it’s logical that it’ll would take a long time. Because it’s likely that there will be earthquakes that would damage the construction and mean that the construction would have to be repaired.
But not many people would be at risk of dying in the tunnel in an earthquake while it was being constructed.
That’ll come later.