Benedict Canyon Drive To Get 7 Months Of Closures

LOS ANGELES, CA — Say goodbye to your favorite shortcut. Starting next month, Benedict Canyon Drive, connecting the Westside to the San Fernando Valley, will shut down almost daily for seven months.

The key artery between the Westside Mulholland Drive will experience partial closures nearly every day but Sundays from May 1 to Nov. 30 for a major water infrastructure project. The work is part of a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project to replace a mile of aging water pipeline to ensure reliability and increased capacity for the delivery of high quality drinking water to city residents, according to the office of Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz.

The partial closure will run from Mulholland Drive to Hutton Drive from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on scheduled Saturdays. Benedict Canyon and Liebe Drive will be open to traffic outside of the closure hours.

Communities along Benedict Canyon will also get four new fire hydrants as part of the project.

Koretz and officials with the LADWP and the Los Angeles Fire Department plan to discuss the project during a morning news conference at a fire station on Mulholland Drive.

City News Service contributed to this report. Image courtesy of Google Earth