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Yet some motorists grew frustrated when they were unexpectedly entangled in additional street closures in West Los Angeles and downtown for the Herbalife Triathlon. stereotype of people glued to their cars hasn’t “really been validated on our trip here,” Wattiker said. Heather Orsi and Elizabeth Wattiker of San Francisco saw flashing warning signs about the 405 Freeway closure between San Francisco and Santa Cruz before they headed to Santa Monica, where they munched on corn dogs Sunday afternoon. Traffic flowed relatively smoothly throughout the Southland on Sunday as word of the closure saturated the airwaves and flashed in lights on electronic freeway alert signs as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area. “Their wedding gift was a citation,” CHP Officer Rick Quintero said. Two of them were newlyweds hoping to extend their celebration under the pre-dawn harvest moon Sunday. Authorities made no arrests, and by Sunday night had issued only seven citations: four to a group of inline skaters and three to pedestrians.

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Most daredevils and free spirits resisted the temptation to exploit the empty freeway - apparently heeding the stern California Highway Patrol’s warning of “zero tolerance” for pranksters. Reports of crime dropped, as did air pollution, as people left their vehicles at home and set off on foot. The weekend freeway closure rippled through the community in surprising ways. By nightfall, street sweepers were scouring the roadbed, and inspectors were looking for damage before giving final clearance for reopening. “People need to remember to be courteous to their fellow Angelenos.”īy early afternoon Sunday, the last pieces of the Mulholland Bridge had been removed and crews began hauling away 2,700 cubic yards of material, including 300 tons of steel, and a four-foot-thick pad of dirt dumped on the roadway to protect it from falling debris. “This is going on for another year,” she said. But she said she was mindful that the project was far from complete. “Just keep going - you’ve already alerted everyone,” she said as she took her dog for an evening walk. Villaraigosa said that decision saved $150,000.īonnie Spence, who lives near Sunset Boulevard and the 405, said she was happy the city was taking its time to get more work done. To that end, the California Department of Transportation deployed crews to conduct routine maintenance while the freeway lanes were free of cars. We thought it was more important to finish as much work as we can this weekend to save future closures.” “We didn’t care as much about getting it done ahead of schedule. “We knew it was going to take longer because there was 30% more bridge to demo,” Barbour said.

In addition, the demolition proceeded more cautiously than last time to ensure that raining chunks of concrete and steel didn’t damage the new bridge under construction. This time, construction crews had to take apart a span that was nearly one-third bigger, said Mike Barbour, director of the 405 widening project for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.Ĭrews struggled to demolish four concrete support structures - two more than last year - each encased with 3/4-inch steel to protect against earthquakes. But demolishing the 80-foot-high Mulholland Bridge to make room for the extra lane necessitated a complete closure. Most of the work requires only an occasional closure of a lane or two. The two-day closure of the 10-mile stretch of the 405 was part of a $1-billion, four-year project to expand the often-choked freeway with a northbound carpool lane.

“This was the mother of all public works projects in Los Angeles,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, whose district includes the Sepulveda Pass. The northern span of the Mulholland Bridge over the 405 Freeway that was demolished this weekend was longer than the southern span knocked down last year, and the entire undertaking was more delicate because workers had to protect the newly built portion. Work crews also contended with a considerably bigger job. While motorists opted for alternate routes, alternate modes of transportation or just stayed home, transportation officials deployed extra crews along the Sepulveda Pass to fill potholes, trim trees and pave three Southbound lanes - weeks of work squeezed into a two-day time frame. But unlike last year’s freeway closure, which wrapped up an unexpected 17 hours ahead of schedule, this time construction crews used most of their allotted time to make as many improvements to the 405 Freeway as possible, officials said. Carmageddon Redux came to an end according to plan before Monday’s commute got underway.

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