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Despite the picture, the ramp will be down, not up. Which ramp?On Friday, March 8, the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project will begin demolishing the third of eight ramps joining Wilshire Bl and the I-405 freeway. This time the southbound I-405 ramp to westbound Wilshire will be rebuilt. The ramp will be closed beginning March 8 at 8pm. The contractor anticipates reopening the new ramp by 6am, Friday March 22. Reconstruction of all eight Wilshire ramps is expected to be complete by the end of 2013… Source:http://www.metro.net/projects/I-405/wilshire-ramps-reconstruction/

EMERGENCY OUTAGE NOTIFICATION! *****DESCRIPTION: What: Sepulveda Closure at Mulholland When: Currently Ongoing until midnight Impacts:  Sepulveda Blvd is closed in both directions at Mulholland due to police activity in that area. Mitigation: Please use either the 405 (joke, right?), Beverly Glen, or canyons further east. Thank God it’s not Friday.  Or maybe it is:*  *If you are too young to get the pun, ask an elder. UPDATE: Apparently Friday caught the culprits because Sepulveda is now reported as reopened.

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It could be worse. Coldwater Canyon is being closed starting March 23 for about 28 days.  Some commuters to UCLA may use Coldwater Canyon and will be directly affected.  But even for those who don’t use that route, it means more traffic will be pushed to Sepulveda and to the 405. From the Westwood-Century City Patch: COLDWATER CANYON BOULEVARD CLOSURE Begins March 23, 2013 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday Starting March 23, 2013, Coldwater will be completely closed to through traffic from Ventura Boulevard to Mulholland Drive for approximately 28 days. In anticipation…

Beginning Friday night, March 1, 2013, the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Project will reduce the northbound I-405 from five lanes to two between Montana Avenue and the Getty Center Dr off-ramp in West Los Angeles. On-ramps within the 2.4-mile reduction area will also be closed during the 55-hour weekend event.  Motorists are advised to anticipate delays. There will be several late-night full closures of the northbound lanes.  The southbound I-405 will remain open and northbound Sepulveda Blvd. will remain fully operational with two lanes throughout the reduction. Westbound Wilshire Blvd. to northbound Sepulveda Blvd. may be used as an alternative route to…

With the massive 405 Project now two-thirds complete, officials have unveiled a staggered endgame schedule which calls for major portions of the project to wrap up this year while work on one troublesome segment continues into 2014. The delay involves the project’s middle segment—chiefly in the area around Montana Avenue and Church Lane—where utility relocations and the necessity of shifting Sepulveda Boulevard have proved vastly more time-consuming than expected. Overall, unforeseen utility relocation issues have not only eaten up valuable time but also have driven up the cost of building the project, according to a briefing presented this week to Metro’s…

Motorists, be forewarned: the northbound 405 Freeway will be a great place to avoid the first weekend in March. Three northbound lanes on the freeway will be closing for 55 straight hours between Montana Avenue and Getty Center Drive. In addition, the Getty Center Drive and Moraga Drive northbound on-ramps will be closed, as will the northbound Montana and Moraga off-ramps. Despite the length of the closure, this is no “mini Carmageddon”—although officials stress that drivers should plan alternate routes through the area to avoid major backups. “We are concerned with daytime traffic,” said Kasey Shuda, construction relations manager for…

(Seems like this problem might last longer than the notice below indicates since traffic will be diverted to the 405.)Sepulveda Boulevard will be closed until around 8:30 a.m. between Mountaingate Drive and Skirball Center Drive because a piece of heavy equipment fell during on the 405 Construction Project overnight, says Dave Sotero of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. No one was hurt, Sotero says, but the contractor must now get the equipment out of the way…From: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22564866/traffic-alert-sepulveda-blvd-near-skirball-center-closed

Sepulveda Pass Tunnel: 1935 An earlier post (Dec. 27) on this blog noted that the MTA has various long-range plans for dealing with the traffic bottleneck through the Sepulveda Pass, just north and slightly west of UCLA.  Readers will not have to be reminded of the fact that the current project of widening the 405 and replacing bridges has been the source of major traffic headaches. The LA Daily News carries an updated story about the MTA’s plans which range from modest to a very expensive tunnel which would carry both rail and cars.  You can read about these plans…