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| The sky is falling! The sky is falling!; Carmaggedon strikes LA | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 15 2011, 04:20 PM (162 Views) | |
| kenny | Jul 15 2011, 04:20 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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LA's busiest freeway is closing all weekend for improvements. What a nightmare. The 405 is practically clogged solid every weekend anyway. I'm not going anywhere NEAR that part of LA. ![]() http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/15/california.carmageddon.freeway/index.html?&hpt=hp_c2 Partial snip Los Angeles (CNN) -- The closure of a mountain highway pass in the heart of the nation's second-largest city -- an event anticipated to be so calamitous to car-loving Southern California that it's been dubbed "Carmeggedon" -- is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Pacific on Friday. That's when crews will begin closing ramps on Interstate 405 where it passes over the Santa Monica Mountains, California Department of Transportation officials said. At 10 p.m. Pacific, crews will begin closing lanes, and by midnight, the 405 will be eerily vacant -- a "carpocalypse," some say -- for the next 53 hours. Rendered desolate will be a 10-mile stretch of all five northbound lanes and a four-mile stretch of all five southbound lanes, officials said. The 405 is one of the busiest freeways in the country, carrying about 500,000 cars a day through the Sepulveda Pass, a critical artery connecting Southern Californians to destinations up the coast. The 405 achieved notoriety on national television as the corridor that former NFL player O.J. Simpson used as he was being slowly chased by police in 1994. |
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| ivorythumper | Jul 15 2011, 04:41 PM Post #2 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Beware of the anti-Chryslers. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| ivorythumper | Jul 15 2011, 04:44 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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The 405 has seen worse... |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| kenny | Jul 15 2011, 05:10 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That little old lady gets mad that I drive so slowly on the 405. LOL |
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| Aqua Letifer | Jul 15 2011, 07:37 PM Post #5 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I love how they quantified that.
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| The 89th Key | Jul 16 2011, 07:44 AM Post #6 |
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Great time to film some zombie movies there. |
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| kenny | Jul 16 2011, 07:56 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yeah I'd be surprised if the film location scouts have not take advantage of this opportunity. A 5-mile stretch is closed in both directions just to demolish part of a bridge in the middle, at the crest. That would mean most of the stretch is unused except to get workers and vehicles to the crest. TV and film shooting happens all over So. Cal. all the time. |
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| kenny | Jul 16 2011, 09:33 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Why in the world would the New York Times have this as their top story? Dont' click on this. It's just a photo.
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