"The penalty is $6,000 per lane of freeway, per 10 minutes. This year, they're hoping for a repeat since the contractor faces a penalty if the work isn't competed in 53 hours. Last year's freeway closure went so smoothly that crews were able to finish the work early. I just remember being not busy, not busy at all," Miketyan said.
CARMAGEDDON 2 LOS ANGELES DRIVER
Taxi driver Mike Miketyan told the LA Times that he was preparing for a slow night like last year.
"Drivers are staying away from the demolition area." "So far, so good," said Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman Dave Sotero told AP. This year, transportation officials are hoping for a replay. Last year's 'Carmageddon', when another stretch of the 405 was closed for the weekend, sparked so much panic that most Angelenos left town or avoided the roads - leaving the remaining freeways so clear of traffic that air pollution dropped significantly, reports the Los Angeles Times. The bridge and its pillars will be replaced and the freeway will be widened to accommodate a new carpool lane, reports AP. 'Carmageddon II' started smoothly Saturday morning as workers started dismantling a portion of the Mulholland Drive bridge, where the Sepulveda Pass on Los Angeles' west side will be closed for the entire weekend. (When I thought of a cyclist racing a jet, I admittedly wasn’t even aware one could take mass transit between BUR and LGB).LOS ANGELES - Angelenos have been warned for months to stay away from one of the nation's busiest freeways this weekend as construction crews shut down a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 405. Gary Kavanagh *, who had reacted enthusiastically to my initial daydreaming about a “Tour de Carmageddon,” was the day’s dark horse, revealing the secret efficacy-and perhaps, for some remote Twitter spectators, the existence-of Los Angeles’ oft-derided subway system. To take one common complaint, the idea of showering at work after a cycle ride is somehow seen as prohibitive, but the idea of showering after running on an indoor treadmill in a gym that one has driven to is seen, rather frighteningly, as normal.īut the race today wasn’t only about the cyclists. Neighborhood Unity One Chord At Time: Welcome To The Hermon Park Community Band. Uplands Plane Problem: Why Small Aircrafts Are Accident-Prone. It’s true, of course, that for years American cities have had atrocious infrastructure for things like cycling, and are built with more sprawling development patterns than European cities, but the reasons people give for not cycling in America are often as much failures of the imagination, or a priori rationalization, as anything else. ‘Carmageddon 2’ accelerates plan for LA freeway improvements. In the face of this fanciful idea ( a traffic-busting flight!) it became possible to demonstrate that cycling, often taken as a non-serious or marginal or even annoying (to some drivers) form of transportation in the United States, could seem eminently reasonable: not only the cheapest form of transportation, not merely the one with the smallest carbon footprint, not only the one most beneficial to the health of its user, but the fastest.
(As noted, wryly, “ #flightvsbike race is already making me reconsider using my jet plane for errands within a 40-mile radius!).īut the moment of folly seemed to provide an aperture for new thinking. There was a certain mix of ludicrousness and PR genius in Jet Blue’s move to airlift people over the 405-closure madness (which, thanks to the doomsday pronouncements of CALTRANS and other agencies, and a sudden bout of Southern Californian common sense, was underwhelming), but it’s not as if anyone saw the flight as a reasonable long-term option. On the face of it, one shouldn’t make too much of the Tour de Carmageddon. pilot said he was not worried.” As the cyclists hit Downey, it was becoming apparent it was less a question of whether the cyclists would win, but by how much after an hour or so, the drama quickly shifted from #flightvsbike to #flightvsmetro, and then, simply, #bikesvsmetro. Still, on the plane, optimism ruled as Horne told me in a Tweet, “Jetblue exec b4 flight said that flight time would b 22mins but pilots would try to do it in 14. by the time Team Jet Blue was arriving at Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport. By Twitter accounts, and the occasionally spotty GPS hosted over at Streetsblog LA, the team was virtually in downtown L.A. Not that it would have made much difference (although a smoother cab ride might have allowed the aviators to beat that pesky Rollerblader). Lost cabdriver? A late Tweet by the Jet Blue flyers, and elaborated: “Our cabdriver didn’t know what a lighthouse was, and was too blind to see the map on my phone.” According to Twitter-based calculations by the unofficial finish times were:īike: 1:34 Metro/Walk: 1:44 Rollerblades: 2:40 Plane/Lost Cabdriver: 2:54
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