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Have you bothered to look around when you drove through it? The amount of tunneling/demolition involved is quite viable. lol.

• mmt 8y ago
  Umm.. I'd say that merely looking, especially by a non-expert, is more than just a little naive. A famous civil engineer, no less than William Mulholland, had his career ended by the geology of those hills.
  • AFNobody 8y ago
    A dam built on a 1920s understanding of geology and dam construction is your argument. And you are ignoring the fact they are trying to tunnel through something with very similar geology. Okay.
    • mmt 8y ago
      My argument is twofold: Firstly, that merely visually observing the surface of a mountain ("look around when you drove through it") is insufficient to draw meaningful conclusions about the overall geology from an engineering perspective, especially by a non-expert. Secondly, that even experts have been confounded by the geological features of that particular mountain range. If you're implying that my referring to an engineering project from approximately a century ago somehow makes it irrelevant, then you'd need to point out some fundamental engineering changes in tunneling and/or demolition (or the study of geology) as they relate to viability thereof, to be an actual argument/refutation.
      • AFNobody 8y ago
        You are aware it literally has a train line through it used by no less than the LA metro right?