California Trying To Give Away A Highway
California’s transit agency is trying to give away a highway that dead ends in the San Gabriel mountains over Los Angeles, but no one wants it. The U.S. Forest Service and Los Angeles County both want Highway 39 to remain open. The highway provides access to Angeles National Forest. However, no one wants to assume the cost of maintaining a road subject to damage from forest fires, landslides, falling rocks and floods. Officials put the annual upkeep at $1.5 million. Highway 39 runs from the city of Azusa to Crystal Lake, where the Forest Service recently spent $6 million upgrading a campground. When it was built in the 1920s, it connected with the Angeles Crest Highway, but a 1978 landslide blocked the last 4.4 miles. The highway provides access to about 500 homes and is vital for some business owners.
California’s transit agency is trying to give away a highway that dead ends in the San Gabriel mountains over Los Angeles, but no one wants it. The U.S. Forest Service and Los Angeles County both want Highway 39 to remain open. The highway provides access to Angeles National Forest. However, no one wants to assume the cost of maintaining a road subject to damage from forest fires, landslides, falling rocks and floods. Officials put the annual upkeep at $1.5 million. Highway 39 runs from the city of Azusa to Crystal Lake, where the Forest Service recently spent $6 million upgrading a campground. When it was built in the 1920s, it connected with the Angeles Crest Highway, but a 1978 landslide blocked the last 4.4 miles. The highway provides access to about 500 homes and is vital for some business owners.
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