NPR's Mike Pesca visited one of these staging areas on the I-10 freeway under North Causeway Boulevard.

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This was music to our ears as we tracked the 101 freeway just north of San Carlos airport.

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The sea link is the first part of the ambitious, and some say misguided, Western Freeway Sea Project aimed at providing a faster alternative to Mumbai's north-south traffic that currently moves at a crawling pace.

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