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From KKKUTI in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Highway 1 may be the most iconic strip of pavement in the United States, to the stuff of car commercials and dreams.

But yet another closure of the highway near Big Sur is forcing residents and planners to ask.

Does Highway 1 make sense to continue maintaining indefinitely?

The coastline, after all, is a dynamic system that we've grafted fixed human infrastructure onto.

For decades, this has been an uneasy arrangement, but decay and perhaps climate change might require the unthinkable.

Some kind of retreat from the coastal highway.

But what then?

That's all coming up next.

After this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Yet another stretch of Highway 1 near Big Sur remains closed after a chunk of the roadway fell into the ocean after March's heavy rains.

The latest closure raises questions about the future of the iconic highway amid threat from extreme weather and coastal erosion. As one Santa Cruz oceanographer told the

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