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Started by larry_scholnick
Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:25
Escape from L.A.
Author: larry_scholnick
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:25
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:25
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Just my own detailed report of how I escaped through the traffic mess that closed I-405. Note that I have intentionally not cross-posted this to MTR because it has way too much local detail. I left work (Howard Hughes Center). Northbound 405 was still moving so I got on, figuring to bail as soon as it stopped. Just past Venice, it stopped. I took I-10 east to its 1st exit, Overland and then north on Overland. Overland was bogged down going straight at Pico so I turned right. Pico was soon bogged down too, so I turned left on Prosser, 2nd Signal. I returned to Overland one block south of Santa Monica. I turned right on Santa Monica (Big SM) and left immediately on Manning. I jogged over to Westholme and crossed Wilshire. Westholme got me to Hilgard where I was hoping to cross Sunset. Sunset was bogged down in both directions, backing traffic onto Hilgard. I took UCLA campus roads around to reach a point where I could cross Sunset for the price of traveling a few blocks on Sunset. The news reports said that Coldwater, Beverly Glen and even Roscomare were bogged down so I decided to aim for Benedict. I took Bellagio Road east, paralleling Sunset. Finally I took Saint Pierre (near the old Ronald Reagan place) to Beverly Glen. St. Pierre is Right Turn Only at Beverly Glen (you can only go south from there) and then I went left immediately on Parkwood, taking North Faring, Brooklawn and Angelo to reach Benedict Canyon via the Bel Air Campus of the Harvard- Westlake School. Benedict Canyon was crawling along at a decent pace so I took a left and joined the crowd. Once on Mulholland, nearly everyone was waiting for a chance to turn right on Beverly Glen, which wasn't moving, so I stayed on Mulholland west, eventually turning right on Woodcliff to reach the Valley floor. I took Saugus to avoid the north end of Woodcliff, then jogged over to Noble to cross Ventura Blvd. I finally rejoined Sepulveda at Camarillo and got home (near 405/101). The mistakes: getting stuck in the backup in Hilgard; I needed a better way to cross Sunset. In retrospect, Loring to Sunset, force right for one block and left on Bel Air Road might have worked out better. The best part was that I never had to consult a map! I've been driving these streets since the '70s. The first time I looked at a map of all of this was to fill in some of the street names (like Parkwood) while writing this.
Re: Escape from L.A.
Author: Paul DeRocco
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:29
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:29
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> <larry_scholnick@yahoo.com> wrote > > Just my own detailed report of how I escaped through the traffic mess > that closed I-405. Note that I have intentionally not cross-posted > this to MTR because it has way too much local detail. <snip> All of the north side of Santa Monica was jammed, too. It took me almost an hour to get from Venice back to Pacific Palisades (5:15 to 6:10). There was stalled traffic where I had never seen stalled traffic. I suspect everyone who lived in the Valley west of the 405 said, "I guess I'll take Topanga over the hill." -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
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