This picture of the slide on the lower part of the Eaton Canyon Toll Road was taken on September 25th, 2007. As you can see no work has started to re-open the road. People are however traversing the slide as you can see from the faint line across the photo connecting the two areas where the slide crosses the remains of the road.
In the bottom of the photo you can see the new barbed wire installed by the City of Pasadena to keep people from entering the National Forest. In an email dated June 2007 Gary T from the City of Pasadena wrote: “The tentative schedule for completion is December 2007.” I suspect that the “tentative” schedule will not be met. In defense of Pasadena’s engineers this is a very difficult problem to solve but some evidence of progress other than more barbed wire would be welcome.