Community meeting Thursday night to discuss Carmageddon II
Here is the meeting notice: I-405 Freeway Closure Meeting Notice 9-6-12
405 closures for prep work for Carmageddon II
Here’s the news release from Metro about upcoming overnight closures of parts of the 405 freeway and other streets in order to prepare for the demolition of the north side of the Mullholland Drive bridge on the weekend of Sept. 29-30: Carmageddon II prep work
Transportation headlines, Tuesday, July 31
Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. An uphill climb for downtown L.A. Streetcar (KCET) D.J. Waldie wonders aloud whether [continue reading]
Alternative access to northbound 405 during Ramp Jam
The demolition and reconstruction of the northbound entrance to the 405 freeway from westbound Wilshire Boulevard and the northbound exit from the 405 to westbound Wilshire begins tonight. My sympathies to those who will be sitting in excess traffic. The above is a map showing alternative access to the 405 [continue reading]
Ramp Jam work to begin
The demolition of the first two Wilshire-405 ramps begins this weekend. There’s no way of sugar-coating it: there will be significant traffic impacts. That said, the status quo in the area has been pretty much horrible for as long as I can recall — way too many cars competing [continue reading]
90-day closure of two I-405 freeway ramps — i.e. ‘Rampture’ — set to begin June 22
Adding a northbound carpool lane may be the most known part of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project. But the project will also rebuild the Wilshire Boulevard ramps to and from the 405 to eliminate a conflict on both sides of the freeway in which traffic trying to enter [continue reading]
On Transportation: March 21 column
WESTWOOD/VA STATION: For obvious reasons, a lot of attention has been paid to the Westside Subway Extension’s Century City station and the subway alignment in Beverly Hills. There’s no need to belabor those issues here. But one of the more overlooked stories involving the subway project involves the Westwood/VA Hospital [continue reading]
Wilshire Boulevard directional closures begin tonight
Wilshire Blvd Closures
Overnight 405 freeway closures over Sepulveda Pass scheduled to begin Friday night
Here’s the construction notice from the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project team: 405 Construction Notice
A little more info on the Sepulveda Pass Corridor project
The part of the Metro website devoted to projects was recently updated with a little more information about a project that I know is near and dear the hearts of many Source readers: The Sepulveda Pass Corridor, which proposes to improve transit between the Westside and the San Fernando Valley [continue reading]