LA Over-Reaction

From Yahoo News:
"Los Angeles braces for weekend of "Carmageddon""

A city renowned for its traffic is about to face a jam of biblical proportions. "Carmageddon" is the name Los Angeles residents are giving the inevitable and likely epic traffic tie-up that will result when a 10-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway is closed for construction from Friday night to Monday morning between two of the nation's busiest interchanges. The unprecedented 53-hour shutdown, expected to delay motorists for hours on alternate routes with ripple effects on about a dozen other major highways, will allow crews to demolish a bridge as part of a $1 billion freeway-widening project. In a sign that few motorists in America's second-largest city take a breezy attitude toward the closure, Los Angeles plans to open its emergency operations center over the weekend. And L.A.'s public transit agency will provide free service on 26 bus lines and three of its five light-rail lines. This being Hollywood, officials have recruited several celebrities to warn motorists of the impending gridlock, including pop star Lady Gaga, newly cast "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher and "CHiPs" actor Erik Estrada. Their main message: Stay away, or at least stay off the roads. As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa once predicted, "It will be an absolute nightmare."

In an "Over-the-405" promotion launched on Wednesday by JetBlue Airways, the discount airline offered special nonstop flights between Long Beach and Burbank for Saturday priced at just $4 each way, taxes and fees included. The 600 seats available on the four flights -- two each going in either direction -- sold out within three hours, the airline said.

^ This is just another example of how people in LA over-react to every little thing. I always hear about how the media there go crazy when even a little bit of rain falls and now the insanity over this highway closure. I think the construction is being done in a good way (very quickly and over the weekend.) People have been told and warned about the construction and can simply stay home or not drive for 3 days. I could never live in LA or CA because they are too soft on everything. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-braces-weekend-carmageddon-004759129.html