Inside the park

摘要

Nothing was to be hit hard on the ground or in the air-and the local Little League was cool with it. So were hundreds of thousands of commuters and residents. The South Bay Expressway project, which ran through San Diego and Chula Vista, Calif., tiptoed around one of the most environmentally sensitive areas on the West Coast to create little disturbance during the construction of a four-lane highway, which included the erection of one of the tallest and longest bridges in southern California. In the end, not only did it protect and enhance the life of the likes of the Quino checkerspot butterfly, the coastal cactus wren, the Otay tarplant and the California gnatcatcher, but also it redefined how a community should be shaped.