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Bruce Willis Could F*** Up Your Thanksgiving**
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 If you travel the 405, the 105 or anywhere within the vicinity of LAX, you may have a rotten time at the wheel starting today Saturday - and perhaps lasting through Thanksgiving weekend. God help you if you are rushing to catch a flight during that time.
The City of El Segundo has given LIve Free or Die Hard broad permission to shut down roads and boulevards surrounding the airport, including one of the main feeder roads - Imperial Highway so the producers can stage car wrecks, set off pyrotechnics and generally pepper the air with Hollywood gunfire.
Here's a general map of where the trouble started was scheduled to start this morning at 9 a.m. (according to the permits) and a complete list of all the closures that will be mucking up flight times for another, oh, three weeks or so:
UPDATE: LAObserved points out a Daily Breeze report that the fun actually begins Saturday. Unfortunately, LAWA has not bothered to update the LAX site, which still points to the Oct. 30 release ...
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Filming will occur in three periods:
* Thursday, Nov. 2 through Sunday, Nov. 5
* Wednesday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov. 12
* Saturday, Nov. 18 through Sunday, Nov. 19
During all periods, Imperial Highway – one of the main access roads into and out of LAX -- is scheduled to be closed in both directions between Nash Street and Aviation Blvd. from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and the westbound lanes closed an additional three hours until 7 p.m. The film studio has indicated one westbound lane will be kept open whenever possible to allow for airport cargo traffic ONLY to access the LAX Imperial Cargo Center at the intersection of Imperial Highway and Aviation Blvd.
In addition, during three weekends of Nov. 4-5, Nov. 11-12, and Nov. 18-19, eastbound Century Freeway I-105 between La Cienega to Sepulveda Blvds. and the freeway connectors at I-105 east to I-405 north and south will be closed from 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., while westbound I-105 during these times will be closed on an unannounced, intermittent (or rolling) basis. Westbound I-105 also will be closed on two Sundays, Nov. 5 and Nov. 12, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Traffic plans call for motorists using westbound Imperial Highway during closed periods to detour at the intersection of Imperial Highway and Aviation Blvd. If headed toward the LAX passenger terminal area, motorists will be diverted one mile on northbound Aviation Blvd. to westbound Century Blvd. into the airport. If headed to the west side of LAX or county beaches, motorists will be diverted three miles on southbound Aviation Blvd. to westbound El Segundo Blvd. to northbound Sepulveda Blvd. to resume on westbound Imperial Highway.
During each of the three Saturday closures of eastbound I-105, airport officials are advising that approximately 300 to 350 construction trucks related to LAX's South Airfield Improvement Project are expected to be routed on southbound Sepulveda Blvd. to eastbound El Segundo Blvd. to access the I-405 freeway.
The production company stated in its letter of intent and permit applications that it will use pyrotechnics (explosives) and "gunfire for the entire time" of the filming. One helicopter is scheduled to be used during weekend filming, and "there will be larger explosions" with accompanying smoke early morning of Sundays, Nov. 5 and 12. While you're sitting there fuming in traffic frantically dialing your airline ofr later tickets, try to stave off the aneurysm by repeating this simple mantra, "it's good for L.A.'s economy, it's good for Bruce. It's good for L.A.'s economy, it's good for Bruce ..."
FURTHER UPDATE: CBS-2 is reporting that the film's producers have no plans to stop filming during the insane pre- and post-Thanksgiving traffic rush through LAX: The studio has said a westbound lane would be kept open "whenever possible" to airport cargo traffic only to access the LAX Imperial Cargo Center at the intersection of Imperial and Aviation, Castles said.
"This is a very heavily used intersection at Imperial and Aviation, and they're diverting to an even heavier-used intersection," [LAWA spokesperson Nancy] Castles said. "We're concerned about the weekend traffic on the Saturday and Sunday before Thanksgiving ... However, we're hoping that advance notification will prepare motorists coming into LAX."
Despite efforts to get the 18th and 19th shoots canceled, filming will still take place during heavy pre-Thanksgiving travel.
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Thursday, November 02, 2006 - 09:34 AM
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