Big Sur’s new stretch of highway already cracking - SFChronicle.com

Big Sur’s new stretch of highway already cracking - SFChronicle.com: The newly rebuilt section of Big Sur’s famously scenic Highway 1 near the town of Gorda is beginning to crack, an early sign of wear for the road that opened just a month ago. But it’s nothing to be alarmed about, state officials say. Several cracks in the pavement, sometimes a foot or longer, were reported this week across the one-third mile stretch of coastline that was closed to traffic in May 2017, after being washed by the enormous Mud Creek Slide. Officials with the Department of Transportation said Thursday the fractures were limited to the surface of the road, which is perched high above the Pacific Ocean about 10 miles north of the San Luis Obispo-Monterey county line.