Again, cut slope angles need to be improved throughout the section.

Cut slopes are rarely created greater than a slope of two to one (horizontal to vertical dimensions).

On site mitigation measures include extensive erosion protection for cut slopes and installation of bioswales.

A guide rail may also be terminated by curving it back to the point that the terminal is unlikely to be hit end-on, or, if possible, by embedding the end in a hillside or cut slope.

Prior to its current form, the site was a large refuse disposal site that accumulated some 3.5 million tons of waste from 1951 until 1969, characterized by "subterranean fires, pollution, exposed debris, unsightly cut slopes, and barren earth."