55 Freeway Widening to Begin Between the 5 and 405
55 Freeway Widening to Begin Between the 5 and 405
July 29, 2022~Transportation officials on Thursday officially kicked off the project to widen a stretch of the 55 Freeway locals know all too well.
The plan is to add a regular lane and a carpool lane in each direction of the freeway between the 5 and the 405. Reconfiguring some on- and off-ramps along that section “that can really work in concert with the local streets and roads, along Warner…
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The 405, RA Clayton #freeway #urbanphotography #traffic #photogallery
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bau squabbling like a family playing monopoly
spencer: you should've listened to me!
derek: it wouldn't have saved that much time, reid. let it go
spencer: actually, the interchange between the 405 and the 101 freeways is consistently rated the worst interchange in the entire world
derek: why do you know that
spencer, getting out of the car: it's a government report! you work for the government and you don't read the reports?
derek, following behind him: on traffic patterns for a city 2,500 miles from where i live?
spencer: correction, 2,295 miles
derek: don't make me smack you in front of all these people
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A Los Angeles woman fatally stabbed her partner and possibly threw her two children from a moving SUV on the freeway before she fatally crashed into a tree Monday morning, authorities said.
An 8-month-old girl died and her 9-year-old sister was injured in the violence, which began around 3:40 a.m., Los Angeles police said Tuesday.
The children’s mother, Danielle Johnson, 34, got in an argument with a man whom she lived with, Jaelen Chaney, and stabbed him with a knife, police said.
Johnson then took her two children in a Porsche SUV, and at 4:30 a.m. that car was seen driving on Interstate 405 "when the two children were expelled from the vehicle while it was moving,” police said in a statement.
Investigators believe the children fell or were thrown out of the moving vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said. The infant died, and the 9-year-old was taken to a hospital with what police said were moderate injuries.
Johnson then sped into a tree in Redondo Beach, a coastal city in the Los Angeles region, at more than 100 mph, police said. She did not survive the crash, which occurred around 5 a.m.
Investigators later found Chaney, 29, dead in the Woodland Hills home where they lived with Johnson's children, police said. The deadly incidents were later connected and determined to be a double murder and a suicide, police said.
“We really don’t know why this incident escalated to such violence,” Police Lt. Guy Golan said, according to NBC Los Angeles.
The highway patrol said it was broadcast a medical emergency at 4:29 a.m. about the injured children on the freeway, and authorities found the infant with major injuries. The Culver City Fire Department pronounced her dead at 4:44 a.m., the highway patrol said.
Redondo Beach is around 30 miles south of Woodland Hills, which is in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. The 405 Freeway is the main artery linking the western part of the valley to the Los Angeles basin.
The surviving child is in the care of Child Protective Services, NBC Los Angeles reported.
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Various (fan) photos of Peter Tork.
“A few of the words that come up a lot when talking with the people that ever met [Peter Tork]… kind, humble and gracious. I never heard anyone utter an unkind word about him.” - Hal Aaron Cohen, Tales of the Road Warriors, March 7, 2019
“Peter signed autographs afterwards. I walked up to him, all smiles and just kinda speechless, but Denise helped me with that. :P After my card was signed, I started to give him a 'polite' hug. Then he said, 'No, no, let's hug hug like regular human beings.' Then he gave me a real tight hug. He was so nice.” - The Ortlieb Family blog, November 3, 2008
“I briefly met Peter Tork in Fairfax, CA circa 1990. I won’t tell the whole anecdote, but his charming, self-efficacious graciousness in handling what might have been an awkward situation stayed with me all these years. RIP” - Ann, Twitter, February 21, 2019
“I only met Peter Tork once. Davy invited me to the release event for their album, JUSTUS, in 1996, and introduced me to him. He was deeply kind, funny, and engaging. I'm so glad to have that memory today. RIP” - Ralph Garman, Twitter, February 21, 2019
“Those dimples though. And always such a beautiful smile on that fella. I’ve told the story on the radio about how my friends and I tailed The Monkees tour bus from the Pacific Amphitheater to the 405 freeway through Orange County, post-show, late ‘80s, and that Peter waved to us for miles (with that smile). Oh swoon.” - LA Art News, 2020
“I worked with Peter for a few years and you could never find a kinder, gentler, more gracious soul than he.” - D J Barker, Written In Our Hearts FB comments section, August 2022
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