Carmageddon 405 Freeway

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Even before the clock ticked midnight -- the official start of a planned 53-hour closure of the 405 Freeway between the 10 and 101 freeways -- authorities had halted all traffic nearing the Mulholland Drive bridge.

The stoppage prompted honking from drivers in the few vehicles caught on the freeway between Skirball Center and Mulholland Drive. A couple of people exited their cars.

One person took another approach, driving backward and swerving around stopped traffic, alarming onlookers concerned that the driver might strike someone in the roadway. Instead, the car was able to make its way in reverse all the way off the highway.

'Carmageddon' is the name Los Angeles residents are giving the likely epic traffic tie-up that will result when a 10-mile (16-km) stretch of the 405 Freeway is closed for construction, including. Carmageddon: the 405 freeway by numbers “Carmageddon,” in which the I-405, one of Los Angeles’ main freeways, will be shut for 53 hours for roadworks, starts on Friday night.

Up until then, quiet progress had been made all night, with the freeway eerily quiet long before the midnight hour.

The shutdown of a 10-mile-stretch of a crucial Los Angeles artery between the San Fernando Valley and Westside is needed in order to allow construction crews to demolish the south side of the Mulholland bridge. On a normal summer weekend the 405 carries about 500,000 vehicles through the Sepulveda Pass.

Earlier in the day, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had addressed a crowded room of reporters with the ominous words: 'The day is upon us.'
'We've been stressing to the residents of Los Angeles for three months now: Los Angeles has to plan ahead, we hope you will heed our advice,' Villaraigosa said. 'It's really going to depend on you. A lot of talk about 'Carmageddon,' and I expect, because of the unprecedented effort .. we believe this will go very, very smoothly, but it does depend on you.'
With the freeway closed to the public, workers plan to batter away at the southern half of the Mulholland Drive bridge and remove some 4,000 tons of concrete -- part of a larger, $1-billion freeway improvement project that includes adding a northbound carpool lane.

If all goes as planned, the 405 should be open again in time for the Monday morning commute.

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Photo: A crew closes the Skirball Center Drive onramp to the northbound 405 Freeway in preparation for the freeway's closure. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

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April 25, a Saturday. If all goes as planned it will reopen at 3 a.m. April 27, just ahead of the Monday rush hour.“This will be the largest freeway closure in Los Angeles since September 2012 when we closed Interstate 405 in both directions,” John Bulinski, the state Department of Transportation's local director, said Thursday. He was referring to the 2012 event that came to be known widely as Carmageddon for fears it would cause traffic chaos.In the end, the traffic jams that officials feared could have gridlocked the entire city that weekend never materialized as people got the word and stayed away.That's what officials were hoping will happen again when they scheduled a news conference Thursday on a hilltop parking lot in Burbank overlooking a section of Interstate 5 that, not surprisingly, was jammed with traffic. ”We've been through this.

With Carmageddon,' Vong continued, noting how in 2012 the hundreds of thousands of people who normally use Interstate 405 every day just went elsewhere.“And the mass traffic chaos everybody predicted never materialized.”As Interstate 405 was, Interstate 5 is being closed as construction workers tear down a bridge so they can widen the freeway and add a pair of carpool lanes.The $350 million project will provide 13 miles of continuous carpool lanes through a notoriously congested roadway that 230,000 vehicles traverse daily. As they did in 2012, transit officials will be posting freeway signs 50 miles or more away warning people to exit the 5 before they get to Burbank. Officials rattled off a number of alternate routes that will get motorists around Burbank or even get them there, although it may take a little longer than usual.If they don't take the routes, officials say, they could end up backing up traffic so far it will block all of them, making it difficult to impossible to get to stores, hospitals and even the Hollywood Burbank Airport.“We are a little concerned,” said Jay Desai, one of the managers of Bob's Discount Furniture, which overlooks the section of freeway that will be closed. The store doesn't plan to close, however, but is getting the word out to customers to take other ways in.Edgar Sanchez, who washes windows in the area, says he'll either stay away that weekend or plan another way in.“It's always best to plan ahead and find solutions rather than problems,” he said.