Sunday's traffic "disaster"
The Times' Jean Guccione has a warning: It's going to be bad. Very bad. The new L.A. Marathon route seems destined to make driving around L.A. even more difficult than most years:
"For a person who needs to cross the route to go to work, to the hospital or just leaving the Renaissance Hotel [at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue] for the airport, that's a disaster for him," said Ali Mahdavi, senior transportation engineer for the city's special traffic operations unit. Vehicles parked along the marathon route will be towed beginning at 1 a.m. Sunday. Two hours later, street closures will begin. Some streets will be closed until about 5 p.m. Sunday.
-Street closure information is available online at trafficinfo.lacity.org. Transit schedules and maps are available at http://www.metro.net or by calling (800) COMMUTE. Marathon information can be found at http://www.lamarathon.com .
