405 carpool lane work begins
With weekend gridlock building on the 405 Freeway behind them, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other officials broke ground Friday on the widening of the Sepulveda Pass -- which they hailed as the nation's largest highway project using federal stimulus money. Tony Castro in the Daily News.
The $1 billion project will create an estimated 18,000 jobs, Schwarzenegger said, helping ease the nation's economic crisis, which has sent unemployment above 10 percent in California.
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