55-Hour Closure At Major LA Freeway Traffic Choke Point Planned For February

LOS ANGELES, CA — Traffic is expected to be impacted on the 405 Freeway and nearby roads over an entire weekend in February when construction will shut down several lanes on both sides of the interstate near the Sepulveda Pass. And a week-long, overnight closure of the freeway is set to begin sooner — on Monday night.

The freeway will be reduced to three lanes in each direction in the area of the Getty Center from 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6 through 5 a.m. Monday, Feb. 9. Additionally, one off-ramp will be closed.

The planned closures are as follows:

Northbound 405 Freeway

• The interstate will be reduced to three lanes between a point just south of the Getty Center Drive/Sepulveda Boulevard off-ramp and a point just north of Bel Air Crest Road.
• The Getty Center Drive off-ramp will be closed.

Southbound 405 Freeway

• Reduced to three lanes between the Skirball Center Drive/Mulholland Drive on-ramp and the Getty Center Drive/Sepulveda Boulevard on-ramp.

Officials urged drivers to consider the following alternate routes:

Sepulveda Boulevard to northbound 405: Drive north on Sepulveda, then east/north on Skirball Center Drive to the northbound freeway on-ramp.

Sepulveda Boulevard to southbound 405: Drive south on Sepulveda, then south on Church Lane to the Sunset Boulevard southbound freeway on-ramp.

Construction has been underway on the 405 Freeway in and near the Sepulveda Pass since June as part of the I-405 Pavement Rehabilitation Project, a $143.7 million project to improve safety and mobility along the freeway and extend the life of its pavement, according to Caltrans.

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Many of the associated road closures occur overnight. But big traffic headaches have come courtesy of what Caltrans calls Extended Weekend Closures — that's when crews shut down lanes and/or ramps on Friday night and keep them closed until Monday morning.

Those weekend-long closures will happen at a pace of about every other week — or twice a month.

Caltrans does not have a finalized schedule for each weekend-long closure.

The next overnight closure on the 405 is planned for Jan. 30 through Feb. 2. Here are the details for that closure:

9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday, Jan. 26 to Friday, Jan. 30:

• Up to two lanes of the northbound freeway between Wilshire Boulevard and Skirball Center Drive/Mulholland Drive will be closed.
• Up to one lane of the northbound freeway between Sepulveda Boulevard and Victory Boulevard will be closed.
• Up to two lanes of the southbound freeway between Skirball Center Drive/Mulholland Drive and Wilshire Boulevard will be closed.
• The connectors from the 101 Freeway to the 405 will be closed intermittently.
• The Sepulveda Boulevard on-ramp to the southbound 405 will be closed intermittently.

Extended Weekend Work: 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30 to 5 a.m. Monday, Feb. 2:

• The northbound freeway reduced to three lanes between Wilshire Boulevard to a point just north of Sunset Boulevard.
• The northbound 405 off-ramp to Getty Center Drive will be closed.
• The southbound 405 reduced to three lanes between a point just north of Sunset Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard.