The Crenshaw/LAX Line reached a nice milestone this past week with the beginning of train testing on a 1.4-mile segment of track adjacent to LAX — the southernmost part of [continue reading]
With Jamzilla approaching this weekend on the 405 freeway, I thought this would be a good time to re-run a post from the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvement Project’s web page. The aim of the work this weekend is to pave a major segment of the new northbound HOV lane in the [continue reading]
The planned 80-hour “Jamzilla” paving operation now scheduled for Presidents’ Day Weekend, February 14-18 is more complex, requires new construction and is more time-consuming than the epic “Carmageddon” bridge demolitions of 2011 and 2012. The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements project contractor, Kiewit Infrastructure West, will not benefit from gravity in [continue reading]
Los Angeles transportation officials are alerting I-405 and regional freeway motorists of an unprecedented 80-hour northbound I-405 freeway lane closure operation in the Sepulveda Pass this Presidents’ Day weekend, February 14 to 18, 2014. The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), in conjunction with California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Los [continue reading]
The iconic Mulholland Bridge that spawned two unprecedented weekend closures of the nation’s busiest freeway and introduced the word “Carmageddon” into the American vernacular was fully reopened to traffic in Los Angeles at 6 a.m. Wednesday after nearly two-and-a-half years of intensive bridge reconstruction work. The contractor, Kiewit Infrastructure West, [continue reading]
Good news from the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project, which has successfully navigated through some considerable obstacles during construction of a 10-mile northbound HOV lane between the 10 and 101 freeways. Project managers now report that the project is officially 85 percent complete, with major milestones planned before the end [continue reading]
The fun never ends with the 405 improvements project, where work crews are in the full thrust of construction virtually everywhere in the 10-mile project area. Witness the latest public warning on potential congestion, this time on the Mulholland Drive Bridge in Los Angeles. It now has one lane in [continue reading]
Here are a few images from photographer Gary Leonard’s pictorial on how the south half of the Mulholland Bridge came down the weekend of July 15 to 17. Above is a shot showing what the bridge looked like last Friday afternoon. The demolition began the evening of Friday, July [continue reading]
It’s only fitting that County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who made the ‘Carmageddon’ tag a household word for the temporary closure of the 405 freeway, should have the last word on the car-free phenomenon and near-miracle of last weekend. And the last word is a good one. Check out the nicely produced [continue reading]
The answer, according to Metro officials, is that it was a mixed bag — due, in part, to reduced travel in the region. The evidence suggests that people didn’t just stop driving, they stopped going anywhere for good chunks of the weekend. Metro offered free service on the Orange Line [continue reading]
