Posted on 11/13/2023 1:25:05 PM PST by AirForceVet1988
Commuters in Los Angeles are bracing for an all-day traffic nightmare after one of the nation's busiest freeways was shut down indefinitely by a massive fire that erupted over the weekend in a storage yard underneath the normally congested artery.
The 10 Freeway, traversed by more than 300,000 drivers daily, remained closed in both directions as authorities suggested a series of detours and announced there is no timeline on when the thoroughfare through downtown Los Angeles will reopen.
"As we made clear yesterday, this was a huge fire and the damage will not be fixed in an instant," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said during a news conference Monday morning. "Engineers have worked all night and are working right now to determine our path forward."
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“...was a storage yard, where some homeless called home.”
Finally, a correct description, rather than the either/or crap.
No question, if the city hadn’t been (probably illegally) storing stuff under the elevated freeway, it would have been merely a minor homeless fire.
These bureaucrats simply have no incentive to do their jobs.
And nothing like ten years later when my parents took me to see Disneyland and Knott’s and orange groves and tar pits and beautiful, safe beaches.
PERFECT time for a union strike. DO IT. Let the Los Angelinos experience the full force of democrat policies. Bums. Illegals. Homeless camps. I wonder if that idiot Jennifer Granholm will come out and say “Well if they took public transportation they wouldn’t have this problem.” Or Pete Bootygag saying “This just proves we need to transform to a “clean” energy economy.”
No doubt first focusing on the diversity of the working group to ensure it meets all applicable standards. /s
Something similar happened last summer on I95 in Philadelphia. It took a couple of weeks to replace the burned out overpass with a temporary 6 lane structure. They are still working on the permanent structure.
So . . . THAT’s where the Washington Ave, Phoenix Homeless went!
This is the worst thing since the Mianus Bridge collapse.
Get the Army Corps of Engineers on the job and it will be repaired in a matter of days.
Orange groves everywhere. No homeless, no bums. What drugs there were and the homos were all kept hidden out of sight probably in Hollywood. We lived in Westchester not far from LAX and dad was an engineer at Hughes. Other than the traffic and smog, it was wonderful.
Just talked to my son, he lives in LA...he said it was a place to go and buy wood pallets... and yes.... homeless
I lived through the golden era of Southern California: 50s, 60, 70s. A truly blessed time.
Except for the smog.
Saturday night Dodger games, Hollywood Park and Santa Anita, 4th of July shows at the Colosseum, school field trips to The observatory and the museums, Pacific Ocean Park, Lazerium . . .
Marineland, Queen Mary, Port’s O’ Call, Huntington Library, Arcadia Arboretum . . .
Mayor Bass said “...any unnecessary bureaucracy or delays are not happening here.” Implying, of course, that they happen all the time in other places.
I lived in SoCal from 1962 when my dad was stationed at Norton AFB. I graduated from SDSU in 1978 and all 3 of my kids were born in Long Beach. In 1996 we left for AZ, which was the best decision we ever made.
What we call homeless, veterans or not, we used to call bums in the old days.
“”Didn’t something similar happen in Atlanta a couple of years back?””
It sure sounds familiar....
Yes like Atlanta. They fixed it quickly but it was a mess.
That was a tanker truck that crashed and burned under the overpass. No homeless involved. They got a temp structure up in record time.
Gee, what a coincidence a fire got out of control in an area crammed with bums on one of the first cold nights of the season.
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