Olympic Bike Races May Use PCH, Mulholland and Loop Around The Kanan Tunnels 4 Times

The 2028 Olympics may be coming to Malibu.  A 106-mile Olympic bike course has been proposed to stretch from Venice to Leo Carrillo Beach … right through Malibu … and then loop around four times in The Snake and the tunnels of Kanan Road.

A map of the proposed 2028 Olympics bicycle race route has been leaked to an Internet bicycle race reporter. 

It shows that the 2028 Olympians might start in Venice, cross Santa Monica, and race up Pacific Coast Highway across Malibu … as far west as Mulholland Highway. 

After climbing up Mulholland into the mountains … they would descend thru Kanan-Dune tunnels 2 and 3, down to the north.

After a quick right turn over to Mulholland Highway at the Rock Store … they would have to climb up Mulholland’s infamous Snake … back up to Kanan. 

And then repeat the tunnel/snake circuit four times.  They are calling that the Rock Store Circuit … and it is expected to be a huge crowd draw.

The bike race would then head to the San Fernando Valley via Ventura Boulevard … and turn south on Hayvenhurst Avenue for a grueling climb back up to Mulholland. 

Then east thru the Hollywood Hills … to the finish line … at the observatory at Griffith Park.

That’s according to a map that has been leaked to a web site that covers bike racing … called cyclinguptodate.com . 

There has been no information on how this will affect traffic … howe many hours or days Malibu would see road closures.

Time trials and practice runs might take place in the days leading up to the main race.

And we have no idea if the City of Malibu or any other agencies would have the power to grant or deny a permit for closing the only road thru town. 

Questions will also come up about the tens of thousands of people who would be expected to crowd Malibu … and probably create throngs of spectators along the cliffs and tunnels of Kanan and Mulholland.

It’s not clear who will be in charge of all this.

We will keep you posted. 

It’s Back: PCH Bottleneck Resumes As Concrete Retaining Wall Fails (As Expected)

Pacific Coast Highway remains choked down near Sunset Boulevard as this week starts.

One of the two lanes heading towards Malibu remains blocked off at the Porto Marina traffic light.

That’s just past Sunset and before the Getty Villa Museum driveway. 

Caltrans has not yet removed any of the chunks of concrete that fell from a 100-year-old retaining wall during last week’s rainfall.

And right next to the fog line … buckled sections of wall remain … looking ready to collapse on the highway.

KBUU News has been reporting on the damaged wall for years.

It has been clear to anyone looking at it that the 100-year-old retaining wall wall was going to fall over … particularly after 

The concrete wall was structurally damaged during the fire 13 months ago. 

But even before that … there were visual clues that it had not been built very strongly.

And there have been active landslides on either side … as this whole hillside has been coming down for months. 

Speaking of which … it appears that the Tramonto landslide …. Just a block towards Sunset Boulevard … is once again moving.

That landslide blocked one of two westbound PCH lanes for more than a year … before Caltrans shifted the traffic lanes towards the ocean.

Caltrans has apparently yet to come up with a permanent plan to stabilize the two related landslides. 

For now … they say they will be working from 9am to 3 pm daily … with the right lane closed.

And overnight … they say they will be drilling right under the landslide … leaving only one lane open for either direction. 

Small Landslides Continue To Dump Small Rocks On PCH

Small landslides continue in the mountains and canyons above Malibu… And along Pacific Coast Highway.

5 inches of rain fell in the last week in the mountains… 2 1/2 inches of rain on the beaches.

And just like last October… That sudden amount of rain is trickling into the cracks and crevices above the highways.

Significant rockfalls have been reported in the last couple days in Malibu Canyon.

Also … on PCH at Point Mugu.

Fatal Wreck Corks Up 101 All Morning At Lost Hills Road

Everything’s been cleaned up now … and the 101 was flowing freely in both directions in the San Fernando Valley and the Conejo Valley.

There was a terrible crash – a fatality – this morning just after 6 o’clock on the 101 eastbound near Lost Hills Road.

A truck hit a person under the bridge and the person was killed.

It took hours hours and hours for the coroners office to reach the scene.

The coroner was delayed because the westbound freeway was also blocked by a second crash at the same place … but on the other side of the freeway … westbound.

It appears that some people slammed into each other and in a chain-reaction type crash … as the first accident was being investigated on the other side of the freeway.

But that was minor.

Four lanes of eastbound traffic was moving at 4 miles per hour on the one open lane under the Lost Hills Road bridge.

That’s where a large truck was stopped … apparently involved in the crash.

It took motorists about one hour to get through from Reyes Adobe Road past Calabasas.

We do not have any details yet from the California Highway Patrol and what exactly happened at the fatality or exactly how many people were killed.

It could be one … could be more than one.

As we said … the 101 has been restored to normal flow and at this hour (noon) it’s flowing smoothly on the 101 freeway.

City Council May Ask State To Suspend Sales Tax On Construction Rebuilds

The Malibu city council tonight will consider suspending the sales tax as it is charged for rebuilding materials.

The statewide tax would have to be suspended by the governor.  Malibu only charges a half cent per dollar … the state charges near;y 10 cents on the dollar.

Some people who lost their homes in the Palisades Fire think that would be a good idea. 

The city’s budget analysts say it would be hard to calculate how a sales tax suspension would affect Malibu city finances. 

A city report issued last week says the urgent financial needs of fire victims is important. 

But the staff report notes that the City has already picked up the tab for permit and plan check fees for the rebuilding of like-for-like homes. 

And it is impossible to track down sales tax refund amounts … because very few construction materials for big rebuilding jobs are actually sold within the city limits. 

The Franklin and Palisades fires … plus the three-month-long closure of Pacific Coast Highway … have already taken a big bite of the City’s sales tax and overnight rental revenues.

Sales tax revenues are down 1.3 million dollars this year. 

And the city’s piggy bank fund … with fire expenses going out and no federal reimbursement coming … has plunged from 83 million to 51 million dollars. 

City staff says they have no idea how to classify rebuild materials out from regular purchases.

And … a sales tax suspension would have to be authorized by the State.

It is unlikely that a suspension of the sales tax would be granted exclusively to Malibu without taking other jurisdictions into consideration. 

And that would take an enormous bite out of the state budget … if it were approved statewide. 

Malibu does charge a local sales tx that could be suspended for fire rebuild materials. 

But again … most of that stuff is invoiced  by out of town merchants and is not subject to the Malibu tax in the first place. 

The issue is to be discussed by the city council tonight.,

$125 Million PCH Sewer Line Goes Before City Council Tonight

Also on the agenda … what to do about the proposed sewer line to serve beachfront fire zone houses in eastern Malibu.

As we reported last week … the estimated cost of the sewer line is 125 million dollars …. To be paid by the owners of the lots.

Although that is a huge amount of money … it is less than half what it would cost to build individual sewage disposal units at each house.

That estimate is a boggling 279 million dollars. 

A lot of that cost would be for concrete walls to protect the individualized onsite sewage cleaning units from being hit by walls.

But given coastal land use laws … th only legal way to build wave preach protection on there beaches is to protect sewage systems.

Some lot owners may actually fund that they cannot rebuild unless they have a sewer system on their lots … to protect against the ocean.

Construction of the PCH sewer would require tearing up the road between Carbon Canyon and PCH at Coastline Drive … the same section that is being torn up now. 

Residents along PCH have generally supported the sewer line… as it will save them considerable construction costs and headaches.

In fact, some of them are planning to put it in individual wastewater treatment systems to use until they can switch over to the city sewer.

All this goes for discussion to the Malibu City Council tonight.

Hannah Montans Spotting On PCH

And in other Pacific Coast Highway news… Yes… That was Miley Cyrus on PCH west of Trancas last weekend.

A 20th anniversary Hannah Montana show is being taped for Disney.

A full T-V production crew was taping Cyrus behind the wheel of a vintage black Ford Mustang … being towed up and down PCH above Broad Beach. 

Between the Olympics and Miley Cyrus … PCH in Malibu is certainly about to more heavy doses of worldwide publicity.