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Carmageddon - 405 Freeway Closure

Written By Anonymous on July 15, 2011 | 6:50 PM

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Carmageddon - 405 Freeway Closure

With the weekend abeyance of one of the busiest stretches of freeways in the U.S. aloof hours away, Los Angeles is accomplishing what the burghal does best – authoritative the cease a Hollywood-style event.

Carmageddon - 405 Freeway Closure
(Photo: Reuters / Eric Thayer)
A sign is seen for the 405 freeway in 
Los Angeles, California July 14, 2011. 
"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 the demolition of 
the bridge, from Friday night to Monday 
morning between two of the nation's 
busiest interchanges.

Dubbed continued ago as “Carmageddon,” the 53-hour cease of 10 afar of Interstate 405 begins Friday some time about 7 p.m. and is appointed to end Monday at 5 a.m.

Early Friday morning, media vans from every above account base lined the abandon of this amplitude of freeway that commonly accommodates a half-million cars on any accustomed weekend. But the advertising started continued ago.
Last month, the Los Angeles Police Department asked celebrities to join in its public service announcement strategy by tweeting the news of the closure to their fans.
Ashton Kutcher was the first celebrity to oblige more than two weeks ago. “LAPD askd me 2tweet: 405fwy btwn 10 & 101 will b closed July16-17. In xchange I would like a free pass on that stoplight tickt IT WAS YELLOW.”
Since then, other Hollywood types have joined the Carmaggedon Twitter search feed.
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“This weekend, LA! Avoid Carmageddon, Gas-zilla, 405-enstein, Grid-lock-apalooza! STAY HOME. Eat & shop local!” Tom Hanks posted on Twitter.
Paris Hilton tweeted: “Hey LA, who's scared of Carmageddon? I'm not leaving my house to drive anywhere this weekend."
Hollywood newcomer actress Khaneshia Smith referred to the fact that many will stay at home and do nothing. She tweeted: “Everyone is forced to respect the Sabbath #carmaggedon.”
“It would be so ironic if Armageddon happened during Carmageddon," tweeted Office star Rainn Wilson.
Businesses in Los Angeles have restructured their normal weekend advertising campaigns to fit this very moment. Many businesses are offering “Carmageddon Specials.”
JetBlue offered Long Beach to Burbank flights, bypassing the 405 altogether, for $4. The flights were quickly sold out. O'Neill, a sportswear store in Santa Monica, is offering a 40.5 percent off sale.
Hotels and resorts are also running hot with specials and discounts tied into the Carmageddon theme. Travel and Leisure reports that Terranea, in Rancho Palos Verdes, is “offering refugees of the shutdown” a third night for 40.5 percent off the rack rate with their “405 Freeway Package.”
Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica has a “Live Like a Local” package (overnight parking included) with rates from $405 a night. Booking two nights this weekend at the Hotel Palomar, in Westwood gets you $40.05 in dining credits and free parking.
The closure takes place between Interstate 10 and U.S. 101, where freeway crews will add a carpool lane and demolish half of the Mulholland Bridge at the top of Sepulveda Pass. The question remains in Southern California as to whether a total commuter meltdown will occur.
"One of our interesting mysteries as transportation researchers is that traffic just disappears,” USC professor Gen Giulano told ABC’s Los Angeles station. “Sometimes, we don't know where it goes. In the case of the 10 (section of L.A. freeway once shut down for three months), people chose alternate routes but they also just avoided the area. Again, they just adapted their travel to be able to avoid the worst of what they were thinking would happen."
Perhaps FOX News Los Angeles anchorman Phil Shuman, who has been advertisement on the arena all week, summed it up best on the station's account appearance Friday morning. "We aloof don't know," Shuman said.
One affair is certain, Hollywood will accept it covered.

By Alex Murashko | Christian Post Reporter

Tags:  405 Freeway Closure

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