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Gary Baker is the deputy executive officer of Metro's Regional Connector Project.
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Gary Baker
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FROM Gary Baker
Design and Architecture
Does LA have tunnel vision? The tunnels of the Downtown Regional Connector in Los Angeles Photo by Avishay Artsy There is a tunnel currently under construction 60 feet below Little Tokyo. It's an S-shaped tube and it's finished in curving concrete, parallelogram-shaped panels that are so elegantly arranged that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called it a "sexy tunnel."…
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