If you thought your
commuter problems to UCLA would be over once the President left town this
morning, consider the following from LA County Supervisor Yaroslavsky:
…Long-running
closures of the 405 Freeway’s Wilshire Boulevard ramps are set to begin on
Friday, June 22, bringing fresh challenges to an intersection that’s already
among the nation’s worst. Anxious
residents and employees in the area have been girding for the start of the ramp work for months. Some online
wags have dubbed it The
Rampture, while others who live nearby refer to it ominously as “the next shoe to drop.”
Whatever
you call it, the work is needed to construct sweeping, 30-foot-high flyover ramps
that will improve traffic flow and safety at the perennially jammed
intersection… Currently, vehicles moving on and off the freeway must execute a
complicated merge with heavy traffic on Wilshire—a situation the new flyover
ramps are intended to alleviate. The
first of eight ramps to close will be the westbound Wilshire on-ramp to the
northbound 405 and the northbound 405 off-ramp to westbound Wilshire. Both will
be out of commission for 90 days starting June 22. Work on the other ramps will
proceed in segments after that, with planned closures ranging from 90 days to
14 days. Delays and detours are expected as workers demolish and rebuild the ramps,
working around the clock to finish the job.
In
all, work on the Wilshire ramps is expected to take about a year. …The June 22 start date was chosen, in part,
because it will come after the end of the academic year for LAUSD and private
schools in the area. The work also will be getting underway following the
mid-June flurry of commencement
activity at UCLA…
Full story at http://zev.lacounty.gov/405-report/get-ready-to-ramp-up-on-wilshire. A video on the ramp reconstruction is at:
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