Highway 1 remains closed after road collapsed in storm
A section of California’s Highway 1 – which winds along the state’s cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean – crumbled during a major storm on Saturday, the Associated Press reported.
The damaged road in Monterey county, near the #Big#Sur area of Northern California,🔸 stranded nearly 1,600 drivers overnight 🔸along the highway, until emergency crews could guide them along the damaged roadway the next morning.
Some stranded motorists were forced to sleep in their cars. Others stayed in local hotels being used as emergency shelters.
“Convoys will lead essential travelers through closure area daily at 8am and 4pm. Engineers on site to observe conditions. Crews working to stabilize edge of roadway,” authorities said.
California governor, Gavin Newsom, said on Sunday that his office was coordinating with several state agencies to address the slip-out, according to a statement on X.
[Fifty-something is fast indeed.
While, for a kid (once) like me, who sort of grew up on a motocross bike, doing outlandish speeds on cross-town trails --- they weren't modern multi-use paths but more dirt cow paths…
I guess the point of interest I'm actually pointing to is more a technical borderline that has quietly been overstepped without reaction from the State of California's DOT; Caltrans has no response to the borderline of deadly force being crossed, and seems to want to defer to this as a problems of #parks and #greenspace.
Statistically, I can project deaths will occur over time with those moving masses being driven in those limited dimension spaces. It's just math.
"Matter of Trust, an ecologically focused group in San Francisco, has been using hair for more than two decades to clean up oil spills and other pollution from bodies of water. Its latest project is encouraging the growth of vegetation in the Presidio in San Francisco, a national park site."
Last fall, dusk, the fountain of Montreal's Carré-St-Louis. The square is surrounded on three sides by homes & apartments... it borders a busy urban street, rue St-Denis. #citylife#Montreal#Quebec#parks#CityParks#Dusk
Ihr kennt diese Beton-#Spieltische, die es in #Parks gibt, oder? Also ein Tisch mit zwei Bänken, alles aus Beton und auf der Tischfläche sind ein oder mehrere Spielbretter von bekannten #Gesellschaftsspielen aufgemalt.
Kennt jemand einen Anbieter für sowas im #Saarland?
Mark Twain once said: “golf is a good walk spoiled.”
Some American communities are realizing that a golf course is a good outdoor space spoiled.
A small number of shuttered #golf#courses around the country have been bought by land trusts, municipalities and nonprofit groups and transformed into #nature preserves, #parks and #wetlands.
Among them are sites in Detroit, Pennsylvania, Colorado, the Finger Lakes of upstate New York, and at least four in California.
“We quickly recognized the high restoration value, the conservation value, and the public access recreational value,” said Guillermo Rodriguez, California state director with the nonprofit 🔹Trust for Public Land, 🔹which bought the San Geronimo course, in Marin County, for $8.9 million in 2018 and renamed it San Geronimo Commons.
Since the 1980s, Xiamen has spared no efforts in #ecological#restoration in the city. So far, Xiamen authorities have launched five campaigns aimed at Yundang Lake's ecological restoration. Now with six different #parks, the lake area has virtually become a "recreational center" for residents.
Für ihre parkenden SUVs müssen Touristen in Paris künftig tiefer in die Tasche greifen. Für deutsche Städte sollte das ein Vorbild sein. https://taz.de/SUVs-in-Paris/!5987260/
I'm very pleased to share the news that an International Union for the Conservation of Nature guidelines document seven years in the making is now published.
"The world at night : preserving natural darkness for heritage conservation and night sky appreciation" is a collection of dark-sky best management practices in parks and protected areas drawn from years of experience.
MKE County: Crowley Touts New Era for Parks Spending (urbanmilwaukee.com)
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