Hitler used in this manner makes me much more uncomfortable than carmageddon which, to be honest, scares the shit out of me.
Was that filmed specifically for this, or is it new captions on an existing movie?
I’m not from LA but have heard about this. As I understand it, the closure is so that the Mulholland Bridge can be demolished. What does the bridge connect? In other words, where will people be unable to go until it is?
I’ll be 400 miles away, but I’m kind of looking forward to listening to KFI’s “Survive The 405” coverage this weekend.
I am down in Orange County, so my risk is less. To be safe, however, we are going camping. That way if the hordes from LA come South we can go away rather than share our precious suburban paradise with Those People (you know - Angelenos.).
It’s just a bridge for crossing the freeway. There’s another bridge just south of it that can be used as a detour while a new bridge is constructed to connect Mulholland back up again. (A longer bridge is necessary to accommodate a wider freeway.) Ordinarily, the new bridge would be constructed next to the existing one before demolision, but there’s something (a wildlife corridor, maybe? ) on either side of the entry points making it necessary to place the new bridge in the old ones exact location.
I’m not sure there will be any place that people will be unable to go. While LA is known for (and perhaps defined by) its freeways, there are always multiple surface street routes.
I used to live in LA back in the 1980s. One of the most indispensable tools a driver could have back then was the Thomas Guide map book. Prior to having maps on a computer, the Thomas Guide was an amazing tool. This was a book with pages about 10 inches by 10 inches, and the book was about an inch thick. The pages were very highly detailed, and at the top, bottom, and sides of each page was the corresponding page number to continue in that direction.
My cousin and I lived in Simi Valley, and drove the 405 down towards Santa Monica every day. My job, as navigator, was to use the Thomas Guide to skirt around any traffic problems. Whenever there was a problem on the freeway, we’d just get off at the nearest off-ramp and make our way through surface streets until we got around the problem.
When I moved to Kansas City, I was appalled to find that there are many places along the major freeways here where surface streets just aren’t a viable option.
Having said all that, I’m glad I’m not going to be in LA this weekend.
Good luck, y’all.
It’s a scene from the movie Downfall where Hitler is told that he’s going to lose the war. Replacing the subtitles to make it seem like he’s ranting about something else has become a pretty common internet meme.
Also, I lived in LA for over 30 years and never heard the term “HOV lane”. It’s a carpool lane.
I heard the news going on about how you shouldn’t drive at all (I didn’t catch the actual story, just the teasers). I’m heading in the opposite direction so I’m not worried. The problem is SoCal drivers freak out about anything and the traffic on the 405 is already hell, so…
It sounds like it’s really going to suck. Where I live I can get KFI and I’ve been hearing about this. My roommate used to live in LA and had to take the 405 everyday for work. We were on our way back from Home Depot and listening to KFI and they mentioned the closure and he started laughing and said, “Those poor bastards.”
We here in Ontario have another 405 you can borrow if you need to. We even say “the” before the freeway number, so you’ll feel right at home. 
Thanks. I was sure I’d seen the clip before, but not with those subtitles.
I’m in LA. I drive the 405 between the 101 and the 10 every day. I flex my work hours so It’s more bearable. If I could help it I would stay in my house all day Sat and Sun, but I bought tickets to the Real Madrid/LA Galaxy friendly on Sat down at the Coliseum. I’m very afraid of what traffic will look like. I’m going to keep an eye on traffic all day and if necessary, be very comfortable watching the game from my living room.
While there is another bridge just South of the one to be demolished, it isn’t going to be a simple change.
google map link The Northern bridge is being demolished, and while the 2 bridges are accessible on the East (where Mulholland and Skirball intersect), they don’t on the West side. If you zoom in on the part where they cross, you can see that Sepulveda is under a tunnel. Add to the fact that there’s a school on the West and a temple/religious school to the East and no doubt that many people use that bridge, My guess is the only way to cross now would be to go all the way down to Ventura (north) and all the way back up. It looks like there may be a possibility of using some combination of residentials via Royal Hills Dr to connect the 2.
It’s already a killer just getting on the freeway off of Ventura, now add all those people to the mess and it’s going to be downright rediculous:(
My office just announced a half-day on Friday to try and get home before it gets crazy.
Ick. I’m glad the closest I have to be to all that is Fullerton. People down here just down react well to change in routing.
As Hitler hints at, those like myself who live, work and romp east of Fairfax most of the time anyway aren’t so affected–really, I don’t want to live on the Westside precisely because it’s so Goddamn car-dependent.
The real issue is that that place–the Sepulveda Pass–is a hilly, wilderness area with little street development, right in between–but connecting–two huge major population and commercials centers: the Valley and the Westside.
Not me. I can take or leave the Westside, and usually I leave it anyway.
It will probably be like the Olympics in 84, when they warned for months about the traffic and such, so many folks left town or stayed home and it was actually pretty easy to get around.
The problem is not what the bridge connects. The problem is that they’re closing the freeway that the bridge goes over. The 405 is the primary western route through the mountains that divide the two halves of L.A. (the Valley and the basin). It’s one of the mostly heavily traveled stretches of freeway in the country and even though its 4 lanes each way its often bumper-to-bumper. I’ve watched the entire west side be shut down by an accident at rush hour on the 405, and they’re planning on closing it entirely for 48 hours.
I live about a block from Sepulveda. I’m looking forward to this weekend with a mixture of fascination and dread. Of course, everyone will probably be panicked into staying home and everything will be fine.
Asking everyone who lives east of Fairfax to leave made my wife and I laugh out loud.
I understood that. I was wondering what the ongoing impact of the bridge closure was going to be.