Big time. I made two round trips to the Valley on Friday -- something I would never normally contemplate. Wide open freeway through the pass at noon, and at 3, closer to normal. Saturday, needed to go South from the Venice onramp, and it was super light -- 70 all the way. Same coming back.
LA used all the media available. They even had Ashton Kutcher and Lady Gaga tweet about it. Literally everyone knew. It's relatively normal on surface streets, so everyone didn't stay home; most just avoided the freeways.
Here's a shot for the scrapbook: headed South on the 405 from the 101 toward the Mulholland overpass at 7:35PM on a Friday. It won't be like this until they close again to tear down the other half of the bridge.
There's a very cool bicycle coalition event all weekend at the Helms Bakery complex. I'll probably ride over there later.
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