City may dig into Jergins Tunnel; college cops seek attacker

After languishing for a generation, the Jergins Tunnel–the underground pedestrian walkway that once gave amusement park visitors a traffic-free passage from the Jergins building to the Pike–inches closer to being saved.

As LBReport.com and LBPost.com both report, at Tuesday’s city council meeting, Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal will ask City Manager Pat West to investigate how the tile-lined walkway–once filled with shops–can be preserved.

This doesn’t mean they’ll save the tunnel–this, after all, is Long Beach. But it does mean the city will probably study saving the tunnel. That’s a good thing. Now call us when they actually save the tunnel.

In other, completely unrelated news, Daily Breeze staff writer Larry Altman has a story in today’s Press-Telegram about how El Camino College police think the sexual assault Tuesday of an El Camino College student may be linked to four unsolved attacks on women at Cal State Long Beach.

Like the Daily Breeze, El Camino College–a community college–is in Torrance.

The four Cal State Long Beach assaults happened in October and November 2006.

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