photo courtesy the city of Santa Monica Here’s a very cool view of the demolition work being done on the south side of the Mulholland Drive Bridge on the 405 taken this morning. The photo was taken from a city of Santa Monica helicopter.
The tearing down of the southern side of the Mulholland Drive Bridge as seen from the media viewing site about 8:40 this morning. As of mid-morning, all work is on schedule. The latest word from Metro’s operations staff is that ridership so far this morning is light on the Orange [continue reading]
The 405 is now fully closed over the Sepulveda Pass in order to tear down the southern half of the Mulholland Bridge. It is not scheduled to reopen until 6 a.m. Monday. Here is our post from earlier today explaining the many transit options for getting around this weekend. For [continue reading]
Here are a few photos from Dave Sotero and Jose Ubaldo of Metro’s communications staff. They’re both spending the evening in the Sepulveda Pass to monitor the 405 closure, which is now well underway — all on-ramps to the northbound 405 are now shut down in the 10-mile closure away [continue reading]
Since the beginning of this week LA INC. (The Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau) has been tweeting things to do during #Carmageddon from their @Discover_LA account. If the 22 events on our Go Metro Weekend roundup this week weren’t enough for you, and you’ve taken advantage of every Destination [continue reading]
Carmageddon is upon us. Why not Go Metro (in many cases for free) while Mulholland comes down? Here’s 22 fantastic, Metro accessible events that will make this lost weekend seem, well, not quite so lost. You may even have a lot of fun. All weekend long there’s the Little Tokyo [continue reading]
A news conference just wrapped up at the city of Los Angeles’ Emergency Operations Center about the upcoming 405 closure over the Sepulveda Pass this weekend for the partial demolition of the Mulholland Bridge. Among the points made at the news conference: •Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asked the public [continue reading]
FREE fares on subway and select bus lines Free fares in effect on Saturday, July 16 & Sunday, July 17 Line & Main Corridor Line & Main Corridor 2 – Sunset Bl 233 & 761 – Van Nuys Bl 4 & 704 – Santa Monica Bl 234 – Sepulveda Bl, [continue reading]
For all the hype and talk about this weekend’s upcoming 405 closure — aka Carmageddon — I’ve also been a little surprised there hasn’t been more discussion of a pretty basic question: is the 405 project really worth the hassle of closing the freeway? I think so. The I-405 Sepulveda [continue reading]
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 blog. Carmageddon: Is all the hassle L.A.’s “carma”? (KCRW) I wouldn’t normally be inclined to pile on with the 405 closure news, but [continue reading]
