This is going to be hell.

[bfdd]

http://laist.com/2011/05/27/metro_gears_up_for_major_405_closur.php

The Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Metro and Caltrans want you to be ready for the coming nightmare. No, not the end of the world. For 53 dark hours in mid-July, the 405 Freeway will be closed for demolition work on the Mulholland Bridge.

They're going to have to repair every single side street afterwards with the amount of traffic they are going to see in those short hours.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

So?

 

[TridenT]

Cool story bro. I get to have construction work done on the street I live on for 3 fucking months.

3 months.

 

[zinfamous]

you should hang out here on those weekends when they shut down the Bay Bridge.

 

[guyver01]

the street I live on

so.. your roommates got tired of your shit and finally kicked you out?

 

[destrekor]

Cool story bro. I get to have construction work done on the street I live on for 3 fucking months.

3 months.

local street construction is hardly more than a nuisance.

Major transportation backbones being shut down typically can be a nightmare in massive metro regions.

We had our street (which is a boulevard) completely torn down and they laid down asphalt. Been begging for it forever, and it was rather nice of them to finally get around to it.
It sucked, but it's hardly something to bitch and moan about.

Wait a minute, you bitch and moan about everything.

Carry on.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

looooooooooooooooooooooool

Good thing I don't live or work there.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

you should hang out here on those weekends when they shut down the Bay Bridge.

Speaking of traffic... WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON IN CHICAGO LAST WEEKEND?!?!?! Don't tell me the Gay Pride parade accounted for the parking lot that was the Edens/Kennedy on Saturday and Sunday. I nearly left my car on the Ohio St. exit ramp and walked to Ron of Japan.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Cool story bro. I get to have construction work done on the street I live on for 3 fucking months.

3 months.

Three is spelled like that.

 

[Minerva]

It won't be hell until DFENS comes along...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8b3963VRW4&

"I'll give you something to fix!"

 

[shortylickens]

If LA kicked out all the illegals how much traffic would they lose?

 

[bfdd]

Cool story bro. I get to have construction work done on the street I live on for 3 fucking months.

3 months.

Yes because your street gets 1/10000th of the traffic in a day that the 405 sees in like a 3 mile span. Please. I just hope this doesn't screw it up down further south where I am.

 

[gaidensensei]

If LA kicked out all the illegals how much traffic would they lose?

Not much. A lot of the illegals depend on public transport or rideshare around here (socal). Bulk of the rush hour traffic is the everyday middle class 8-5 shift people.

 

[Duder1no]

sucks to be you

 

[moks78]

Wifey takes the 405 every day...hope it does not extend beyond the projected weekend closure or it's really gonna be a mess.

She needs to take time off if it does...on the following Monday or even Tuesday. Yikes!

 

[CrackRabbit]

Yep, going to gridlock the entire city of LA and most of the surrounding cities as well.

 

[bfdd]

Yep, going to gridlock the entire city of LA and most of the surrounding cities as well.

They were already telling us at work to make preparations to work from home the following days in case it runs over the estimated time.

 

[Ns1]

going NOWHERE that weekend.

 

[FallenHero]

Speaking of traffic... WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON IN CHICAGO LAST WEEKEND?!?!?! Don't tell me the Gay Pride parade accounted for the parking lot that was the Edens/Kennedy on Saturday and Sunday. I nearly left my car on the Ohio St. exit ramp and walked to Ron of Japan.

Beaches + Baseball Games + Terrible Chicago Traffic = Shithole.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Coldwater and Laurel are gonna be FUUUUUUUUUUCKED.

 

[Blitzvogel]

It won't be hell until DFENS comes along...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8b3963VRW4&

"I'll give you something to fix!"

One of the best movies ever.

"YOU WANT YOUR PILLS?!?!?!"

 

[Powermoloch]

Californiaaaaa it's full of traffic
Californiaaaaanyanya it's full of traffic
In the cityyyyyy filled with gridlock
Losing hours...stuck in traffic
IN the cityyyyyy, city of Angeles....

 

[MotionMan]

Maybe this is a trick so that the Valley can finally secede from Los Angeles?

MotionMan (who lives in the Valley and works in the Westside. Yep, that's my commute they're messing with)

 

[EagleKeeper]

It will be closed the weekend of July 15-17th.

By doing it on the weekend,it reduces the impact. also, after the 4th means no extra holiday weekend traffic.

In an ominous news release titled “Countdown to the Closure,” public safety officials warned Friday of the planned 53-hour full closure of a long segment of the 405 freeway on the Westside in July.

The northbound 405 will be closed for 10 miles between the 10 and 101 Freeways, and the southbound 405 will be closed for four miles between the 101 Freeway and the Getty Center Drive ramps. The closure is planned for the July 16–17 weekend — beginning in some sections on the evening of July 15 and lasting until the early morning of July 18 — and is taking place because of planned demolition work on the Mulholland Bridge as part of a larger freeway improvement project.

It has been announced for almost a month.

Read the papers, pay attention to the news

 

[slayer202]

Three days, you'll survive