Irvine-to-Corona tunnel vision

Remember the much-discussed plan to build a freeway in a tunnel under the Santa Ana Mountains? The PE reports that despite some very preliminary testing, money problems are already cropping up for the Corona-to-Irvine route:

Just weeks before drilling into the Santa Ana Mountains to begin determining if a tunnel is the answer to worsening traffic on Highway 91, a new and more strict interpretation of federal funding rules threatens to scuttle the process. At issue is whether Riverside and Orange counties will be able to use $15.8 million in previously approved federal funds to complete soil and groundwater tests to determine the feasibility of the proposed Irvine-Corona Expressway. Transportation officials expect a permit from the U.S. Forest Service in early 2008 that will allow them to start tests.

Cool graphic on what the tunnel would look like here.

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