Metro held a live web chat yesterday with Mike Barbour, the chief of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, which is adding a carpool lane on the northbound 405 between the 10 and 101 freeways, among other improvements. Barbour fielded questions from readers. The transcript is below — and here’s [continue reading]
Mike Barbour, Project Director of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project, will be at the helm of today’s chat – giving an overview of the project and answering your questions during the hour long session. To join in, point your browsers to http://www.metro.net/news/pages/livechat/ at noon.
Kay Greeley freely admits that she is a tree hugger. She estimates that she has examined 50,000 trees during her career, which is a large number of hugs by any measure. Greeley even has favorite trees: two native oaks (coast live oak and valley oak) and the California sycamore. “I [continue reading]
Trying to plot strategies for avoiding 405 construction traffic? Dreaming of the best way over (or around) the Sunset Bridge while it’s being widened? We’re now taking advance questions. They’ll be answered live by Mike Barbour, Project Director of the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project during a live chat on [continue reading]
The above photos and graphics show the Sunset Boulevard bridge over the 405 freeway in its current state and what it will look like after it is torn down and reconstructed. The key number to remember: the bridge is 90 feet and six lanes wide at present and when rebuilt [continue reading]
With working beginning Friday night to prepare the Sunset Boulevard bridge over the 405 for demolition, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky’s website takes a deeper look at the work to come. The bridge work is part of the widening of the 405 to add a northbound carpool lane between the Santa [continue reading]
Yet another friendly major infrastructure improvement reminder: Work begins on the run-up to demolishing the Sunset Boulevard bridge over the 405 on Friday night. The tear-down is part of the Sepulveda Pass Widening Project that will add a northbound carpool lane to the 405 between the Santa Monica and Ventura [continue reading]
As part of the widening of the 405 freeway to add a carpool lane through the Sepulveda Pass, the bridge that carries Sunset Boulevard over the freeway is going to soon be demolished and rebuilt — while partially remaining open to traffic. Work begins later this month. The page to [continue reading]
SATURDAY, APRIL 24 UPDATE Good news – The street closure of Church Lane has been canceled this weekend. ________________________________________________________ The latest fun that is part of Sepulveda Pass widening project on the 405 freeway: the intersection of Church Lane and Sepulveda Boulevard is being shut down the two next weekends [continue reading]
The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project contractor plans to begin clearing and grubbing work in the southbound I-405 freeway on and off-ramp loops north and south of Wilshire Boulevard starting the week of April 26. In preparation for this work, the southbound I-405 to Wilshire Boulevard on and off-ramps will [continue reading]
