Stay Out of Chicago Weekends in June!
The Kennedy Expressway (I-90/94) through Chicago will have lanes closed three weekends in June: 6/13-15 - for 55 hours all Eastbound lanes closed at Ohio/Ontario feeder. Eastbound traffic will use...
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SCVJeff wrote:
Llive and direct from Los Angeles and heading to Chicago.
It's CARMAGEDDON
The first "Carmageddon" event for closing ALL lanes of the busiest freeway in the US, (the 405 in L.A., CA) in 2011 - made for *GREAT* traffic flow!
Heading North from Orange County (Sat. at 2PM) traffic seemed pretty normal, but began thinning after passing Long Beach.
After passing LAX, I had several alternate plans to get to West L.A. - expecting big ("mega") traffic back-ups.
By the time I got to the 10 (and the detour), traffic was down to nothing!
Took the last available off-ramp (National Blvd) before the detour, expected a big back up of cars on the off ramp....zero!
Even the surface streets were a breeze!
It's a pretty frequent commute for me - and CM Saturday, was the absolute best - for *lack* of traffic -
I have ever encountered!..:C
Can't speak for the alternate routes from North to South -or- for the other lane/freeway closing events since Carmageddon ("JAMZILLA", etc) on the 405.
Sooooo - *If* the Chicago folks heed the warning, just might be great for traffic flow..:@
BTW - experienced something similar when the summer Olympics were in L.A.
Had neighbors who planned to be out-of-town due to the anticipated traffic nightmare/s.
Attended several events at various locations on weekends in the So. CA area & the predicted traffic jams never happened.
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