It obtained for "carmageddon"

July 15, 2011, updated at 21: 17 Interstate 405, that runs through Los Angeles, usually handles a high volume of traffic residents are preparing for "carmageddon", traffic jams serious which could be as a result of the closure of a key stretch of the road during one of the weekends most busiest in the city of Los Angeles.

Interstate 405, the main artery of the city, will close for 53 hours, starting Friday night.

Workers plan to add more lanes to 10 miles (16 km) section of the highway.

Los Angeles has recruited celebrities with large followers of Twitter to alert residents of the closure.

Transportation officials say the road being closed to replace the bridge as part of a thousand $ 50 years Mulholland (￡ 600 million) project to add additional routes to a segment of the road of bottlenecked.

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the wildcard is if engineers are unable to open the highway backup after two days "

end quote Genevieve Giuliano Professor of urban planning, a stagnation of the University of Southern California expected with the chaos of the closure, which has been dubbed"carmageddon"- waiting for grinding traffic stopped on streets and highways"Some have committed themselves to walk and others say that it will take to the skies.

During the days prior to the closing, taxi helicopter rides were sold for $150 (￡ 93) passengers hoping to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport during the weekend and 10 minutes flight between Burbank and Los Angeles were were offered by JetBlue 4 $ per ticket.

City officials have issued dire warnings of traffic to the residents of Southern California during weeks of floods and forest fires warnings.

Mike miles of California Transportation Department says traffic could be backed by more than 100 km.

"Cannot be closed a road that leads to 500,000 a day on it and does not expect problems", he said.

Mr miles warned that roads could be dangerous if drivers tempted fate and had fought through traffic jams.

But some residents of California are skeptical about the warnings of the city.

"It is possible that they want to scare everyone to stay off the roads, so it will not happen a stalemate," said Laird resident Lorelei from Los Angeles.

Workers Iran including additional lanes in some sections of the Interstate 405

"I do not expect it to be the nightmare bumper-to-bumper that people expect", he added.

Some transportation experts have compared the closure to other big events planned in the region, such as the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles Lakers Championship parades and funeral of Michael Jackson - events when Los Angeles residents stayed off roads.

As now, "people had advanced notice for down the road during the Olympic Games," said Genevieve Giuliano, Professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Southern California.

"The joker is that if engineers are unable to open the highway backup after two days,", he added.

The city of Los Angeles asked several celebrities, including Tom Hanks and Ashton Kutcher, to warn the residents of Los Angeles on carmageddon Twitter microblogging site.

"This weekend, the!" Avoid Carmageddon, Gas-zilla, 405-enstein, Grid-lock-apalooza! STAY HOME. "Eat & shop local, Hanks wrote."

Facebook also agreed to direct some residents of the Los Angeles area from 6.6 million to the Facebook page of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for more information about how to avoid the traffic.

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