Heads Up: Obama Street Closures

March 18, 2009 at 1:12 pm in Announcements, Driving

Now that President Obama is not some Occidental kid who has to deal with traffic, his arrival in the Southland means empty streets for his motorcade and street closures for the rest of us. I just got word from my building’s manager that Avenue of the Stars will be closed from Pico to Santa Monica from 4pm – 6pm today, and Eric Garcetti kindly posted the entire schedule of streets that will be closed during his two-day visit. Here it is, courtesy his blog:

Wednesday, March 18,2009 (5 p.m. to 7 p.m.) and Thursday, March 19, 2009 (8 a.m. to 10 a.m.), the following streets will be closed:

Motor Ave. between Monte Mar & Pico Blvd.

Pico Blvd. between Overland & Century Park East

Avenue of the Stars between Pico & Santa Monica

Santa Monica between Beverly Glen & Wilshire Blvd. (this will continue in the City of Beverly Hills, which is handling this separately)

Olympic between Century Park West & Century Park East

Also on Thursday, March 19, 2009 (10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.), the following streets will be closed:

2nd St between Figueroa & Beverly

Beaudry St between 4th & Beverly/1st

Boylston St between 4th & 1st

Bixel St between 4th St & 1st

Southbound Edgeware at 1st

Lucas Ave between 4th & Beverly/1st

3rd St between Union and Witmer

13 Comments »

http://www.superjux.com hilary

And for even more fun in Century City, we got an email from building management stating there will also be an AIG protest tomorrow on Avenue of the Stars at 5:00.
http://www.superluckycat.com bromike666

It’s good to live amongst the homeless here in “industrial downtown.”
lucindamichele

It could be worse; it could be the LA Marathon. Damn those f**king runners and their f**king marathon.
http://whatyouseeiswhatyoueat.wordpress.com queequeg

@ hilary: HA! I just got that email too!
http://highlandpark.wordpress.com waltarrrrr

I take it, he’s staying at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza‎…
http://digitalbasement.blogspot.com/ pcloadletter

Any word on Burbank street closures? I couldn’t find anything on Burbank’s outdated website.
wilberfan

Re: Burbank: Yesterday I saw “Temporary No Parking” signs on both sides of Riverside Dr, South of NBC. Not sure about closures yet.
http://snarkydork.com Jodi

Thanks. I just shared this at work and some folks are definitely affected.
http://www.superjux.com hilary

@queequeg do you work on CPE? I’m guessing we work in the same building. Our company fortunately closed early, but I have no idea how I’m going to get into work tomorrow.
http://frazgomeanders.blogspot.com frazgo

thank gawd almighty his motorcading isn’t going to screw up my lunch plans.
http://whatyouseeiswhatyoueat.wordpress.com queequeg

@hilary: Yeup, that I do! In one of the Watt Plaza towers – small world. My firm let people go home early, but I didn’t make it out until just after the motorcade passed by, around 6. It was rather anticlimactic, I thought.

For tomorrow – well, there’s just no way to get to work. I’m going to see if I can get away with sleeping in and coming late. We’ll see…
http://www.superjux.com hilary

@queequeg I’m right across the street from the Watts buildings.

Glad the traffic wasn’t too bad! Good luck this morning.
http://la.metblogs.com/2009/03/20/aig-century-city-protest-with-special-guest-code-pink/ AIG Century City Protest, With Special Guest Code Pink | Los Angeles Metblogs

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