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07-11-2011, 04:56 PM
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Just saw a piece on tonight's news about shutting down Highway 405, one of Los Angeles' main highways for repairs and expansion. They said the traffic will be so bad they're calling it "Carmageddon". What say you, SoCal TBers? The end of the world as we know it, or much ado about nothing? 405 Freeway Closure Will Make July 16, 17 the 'Carmageddon' of Traffic Mayhem in Los Angeles - Los Angeles News - The Informer
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07-11-2011, 05:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | This will affect me...only if they don't finish on time and it affects the weekday commute, which is what I think will happen. They have basically given 2 days to take down a whole bridge and clean it up etc..
Still, the 405 is the busiest freeway in the nation, and you could expect about about another 1:30 or so to just to get past it, maybe more. All the overflow is going to one lane canyons..or you would have to go past the 405 and take a very long way around to avoid it.
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07-11-2011, 05:03 PM
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07-11-2011, 05:05 PM
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07-11-2011, 05:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by stratovani  | If you are at all familiar with traffic in LA you know that this is going to be a big deal. Granted, its on a weekend, and at a point about 45 miles from where I live, and I'll most likely still be affected by it. Practically anyone who needs to drive towards LA that weekend better leave early.
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07-11-2011, 05:26 PM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | This is going to affect the traffic on every freeway in the LA metropolitan area. I'm not planning to go anywhere except my backyard. |
07-11-2011, 05:43 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Close to Los Angeles, CA | | | I don't know what to make of it, but if they've given it the name "Carmageddon," that means that it is 99.99% certain to be media hype. |
07-11-2011, 05:43 PM
| | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | My nephew moved to West Hollywood a couple of weeks ago. I guess he'll be in for a shock! 
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07-11-2011, 09:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jacksonville and Pensacola, FL | | | I was there a month ago. I feel that the article is pretty accurate. It will be like hell on earth for what is already hell on earth.
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07-11-2011, 10:32 PM
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07-12-2011, 03:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | I was supposed to go down to San Diego... 
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07-12-2011, 04:05 AM
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Owner: BassStringsOnline.com | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: LA California | | I am so tired of hearing them use the term "Carmageddon" on the radio... There was a closure on the 110 the other day and they said "We have a mini Carmageddon on the 110" and I turned the radio off so quick. (I drive A LOT so always listening to the news radio...)...
If they start calling every freeway closure a mini "carmageddon" I am going to be annoyed...
I was originally thinking of heading out of town that weekend... decided on bunkering down at home with a bunch of movies and groceries 
Hard to imagine they are destroying the whole bridge in less than 72 hours...
Doesn't it look like the big walls they put up where they cut away the mountains are going to fall over? EEEEEEK...
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07-13-2011, 05:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | I don't know if people are panicking, but this is not supposed to start until the weekend, and my drive in today was noticeably slower...
I'll report back tomorrow as well.
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07-13-2011, 07:04 PM
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Owner: BassStringsOnline.com | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: LA California | | | Took me an hour and 40 minutes to get from santa monica blvd at sepulveda to sherman oaks via beverly glenn today. I guess there is construction going on in the canyon roads.... I wonder if that is going to be on during the weekend.
Seems there is a lot of road construction going on but I hear they are not doing any other roadconstruction during the weekend...
And guess what! They are only tearing down half the bridge... Closing the 405 again next year to finish.......... |
07-14-2011, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by GeneralElectric I was supposed to go down to San Diego... | Take the 5 S to the 405, you'll avoid the closure.
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07-14-2011, 12:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | No noticeable traffic today on my way in...
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07-14-2011, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Funky Ghost That game was such crap Interstate 76 was far far superior. | Lies! Well, maybe for single player, but for multi player LAN fun Carmageddon was insanely fun. Cunning Stunt!
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07-14-2011, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: southeast Michigan | | | just stock up on visqueen and duct tape, and flashlight batteries
you'll be all right
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07-14-2011, 03:55 PM
|  | Evil Alien | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | What a stupid witless name... But that's media types for you; their witlessness knows no bounds.
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07-14-2011, 04:35 PM
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