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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Dugout DickStone on July 14, 2011, 11:08:42 PM
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I need to get from LAX to Westwood Sunday night. Will I get stuck on Sepulveda and die?! I'm scared
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Carmogedden bitches :ohno:
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death is immanent. I thought this article could help you, but then I read it...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/one-for-the-table/carmageddon-is-coming_b_896285.html
If you have to be anywhere in the vicinity of LAX, my prayers are with you, but I don't think even God will be able to help you.
For those coming into town, all I can say is life is a bitch and you're going to meet her firsthand. Hopefully, only the first day or two of your vacation will be spent trapped in your car.
Getting in and out of LAX is pure hell on a regular day. This is going to be the traffic equivalent of D-Day.
:runaway:
Me in the flint hills -> :driving:
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should've jet blued it big guy
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there's, like, an app for navigating side streets with live traffic and junk that was made just for this thing. NPR was talking about it this morning. I would get ahold of that.
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just a heads up. you wouldn't have taken the 405 anyways.
take Lincoln (aka the 1, aka the PCH), north out of LAX through Marina Del Ray, Venice, Santa Monica. go past Santa Monica and take Lincoln to San Vicente. take it up into Pacific Palisades and into Westwood. boom roasted.
if you need some restauarant recomendos, let me know. there's some good eats in westwood.
boom.
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just in case, i'll call Bigtime_Hollywood_ProducerKAT tonight and get you the best advice just in case there's better advice than the already solid platinum advice i already gave you.
should've jet blued it big guy
did you see that promotion? hilarious.
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just a heads up. you wouldn't have taken the 405 anyways.
take Lincoln (aka the 1, aka the PCH), north out of LAX through Marina Del Ray, Venice, Santa Monica. go past Santa Monica and take Lincoln to San Vicente. take it up into Pacific Palisades and into Westwood. boom roasted.
if you need some restauarant recomendos, let me know. there's some good eats in westwood.
boom.
I would have taken the 405.
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there's never a good reason to get on the 405, ever.
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there's never a good reason to get on the 405, ever.
sunday night, LAX to century city....wouldn't have been too bad.
Now I think take the 1 to Wilshire, to westwood...?
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cool...I will be providing live updates from the middle of this.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A city renowned for its traffic is about to face a jam of biblical proportions.
"Carmageddon" is the name Los Angeles residents are giving the inevitable and likely epic traffic tie-up that will result when a 10-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway is closed for construction from Friday night to Monday morning between two of the nation's busiest interchanges.
The unprecedented 53-hour shutdown, expected to delay motorists for hours on alternate routes with ripple effects on about a dozen other major highways, will allow crews to demolish a bridge as part of a $1 billion freeway-widening project.
In a sign that few motorists in America's second-largest city take a breezy attitude toward the closure, Los Angeles plans to open its emergency operations center over the weekend. And L.A.'s public transit agency will provide free service on 26 bus lines and three of its five light-rail lines.
This being Hollywood, officials have recruited several celebrities to warn motorists of the impending gridlock, including pop star Lady Gaga, newly cast "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher and "CHiPs" actor Erik Estrada. Their main message: Stay away, or at least stay off the roads.
As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa once predicted, "It will be an absolute nightmare."
That message has inspired a number of leisure destinations outside Los Angeles to offer special "Escape Carmageddon" discount packages, from a Mammoth Mountain hotel in the Eastern Sierras to a hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
But most people who live and work in and around the gridlock zone have no choice but to hunker down for the weekend.
The UCLA Medical Center on the city's upscale westside has secured 600 dorms and apartments as temporary quarters for hospital staff as part of an emergency plan to prevent doctors and nurses from getting stuck in traffic.
"We see this as being a disaster -- only it's a planned disaster," said Posie Carpenter, the medical center's chief administrative officer.
The Getty Center, a popular art museum nestled in the hills above the 405 Freeway, has said it will be closed to visitors this weekend because of the construction project.
BOOKING A HOTEL
Lisa McGuinness is going to stay in a hotel for three nights near the deli she owns near the north end of the shutdown, rather than risk stewing in traffic for hours with a commute from her home 30 miles away in Los Angeles' South Bay community of Torrance.
"The freeway stresses me out every day," she said. "With this, I'm just thinking we just have to stay out of it. I just can't even imagine what the streets are going to be like."
In an "Over-the-405" promotion launched on Wednesday by JetBlue Airways, the discount airline offered special nonstop flights between Long Beach and Burbank for Saturday priced at just $4 each way, taxes and fees included.
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there's never a good reason to get on the 405, ever.
sunday night, LAX to century city....wouldn't have been too bad.
Now I think take the 1 to Wilshire, to westwood...?
pass wilshire, it will be a zoo. i'd keep going until san vicente north into westwood.
i'll call BTHPK tonight and let you know later on this evening if you want the official recommendo.
Link (http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=LAX&daddr=33.9995472,-118.4552584+to:34.03322,-118.50558+to:westwood+park,+ca&hl=en&ll=34.007989,-118.440857&spn=0.11071,0.153637&sll=33.996889,-118.429184&sspn=0.110724,0.153637&geocode=FefvBQIdKTrx-Cm1T7IT0rDCgDHxrYtpV3uodw%3BFbvKBgIdJoTw-CkxqS8T7LrCgDGwrHuMx6IYUw%3BFUROBwIdlL_v-Cnvk13LvKTCgDH3hkC4fmifDw%3BFViaBwId9aPw-CEaGu6Ml9LoMQ&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=13&via=1,2&z=13)
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California can just eff off and die.
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California can just eff off and die.
Another loser who wants to kill the cool kids. What a unique sentiment.
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verified. san vicente
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verified. san vicente
:driving:
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Traffic is better than normal, should do this more often.
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Thanks clams, I just 13-1'd carmageddon, sitting at W with a nice stoli soda.
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California can just eff off and die.
Another loser who wants to kill the cool kids. What a unique sentiment.
From there. Very meh.