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More than 400,000 vehicles a day push through Sepulveda Pass on Interstate 405, one of the most overloaded freeway corridors in America. It climbs through the Santa Monica Mountains, squeezes commuters between the San Fernando Valley and the Los Angeles Basin, and has spent nearly a century proving the same point: every fix creates the next problem.
From the 1930 Sepulveda Tunnel, to the massive 1960s freeway cut, to the 1985 lane squeeze, to the $1.6 billion Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project, this stretch of the 405 has been widened, rebuilt, reinforced, and reimagined. But the traffic keeps coming back.
This is a Danger Ahead look at Sepulveda Pass, the freeway Los Angeles depends on, endures, and still has not truly solved.
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