Fixing former California wagon trail could cost taxpayers billions and destroy ancient redwoods

Source: New York Post

California taxpayers are staring down a multibillion-dollar price tag to rescue one of the state’s most unstable highways, a collapsing coastal stretch that is quite literally sliding into the ocean. The California Department of Transportation is now advancing a plan to bore a 1. 1-mile tunnel through redwood forest to bypass the deteriorating “Last Chance Grade” section of US Highway 101, with the project estimated to cost $2.