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Countdown to 405 Closure Continues

Messages are posted on the freeway and a countdown is online.

As an effort to spread the news before the dreaded July weekend approaches, county officials have posted signs on the 405 freeway that remind drivers of the plan to shutdown the interstate for construction.

There's even a countdown clock online. As of Monday, there are 25 days until what's being called "carmageddon."

A 10-mile stretch of both the southbound and northbound lanes of the 405 freeway will be closed for 53 hours starting late on July 15.

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Construction crews for the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project are to demolish half of the Mulholland Bridge in the Sepulveda Pass in order to build a new, wider bridge and a carpool lane on the freeway.

"They're calling this 'carmageddon' and our objective is to prove all the predictors wrong and it doesn't need to be a 'carmageddon,' " said Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. 

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Once the $1 billion project is complete, planners hope that commuters will have a 10-mile northbound carpool lane between Orange County and the San Fernando Valley.

But in the meantime, ramps along the 10-mile closure between Interstate 10 and Highway 101 will begin to shut down as early as 7 p.m. on Friday, July 15, and the closure of freeway lanes will begin at 10 p.m. to ensure full freeway closure by midnight.

The specific freeway closure boundaries are:

  • Northbound I-405: 10-mile closure between Interstate 10 and Highway 101.
  • Southbound I-405: four-mile closure between Highway 101 and Getty Center Drive.


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