405 Freeway closure this weekend may affect LAX access

Traffic moves through LAX in this file photo. Travelers are urged to give themselves extra time this weekend.

By Chris Erskine

Feb. 10, 2014 8 AM PT

LAX officials are warning those traveling this weekend that a six-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway north of the facility will be closed from late Friday til early Tuesday, possibly affecting traffic around the nation’s third busiest airport.

Dubbed “Jamzilla,” the closure of a northbound stretch of the 405 from Getty Center Drive on the south to Ventura Boulevard on the north is about 10 miles north of the airport. But given the domino effect of L.A. traffic, LAX is urging travelers to give themselves extra time and stay atop conditions.

The President’s Day weekend closure begins at 7 p.m. Friday and is expected to last til 6 a.m. Tuesday.

Check conditions at Caltrans’ website or consult the LAX website.

Passengers are also encouraged to check their airline’s website for flight status alerts.

chris.erskine@latimes.com

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Chris Erskine

Chris Erskine is a nationally known humor columnist and editor who retired from the Los Angeles Times in 2020. Previously he wrote for the Sports, Travel and Saturday sections and edited with the paper’s features staff. As an editor, he has been a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at The Times (for his graphics work on the Northridge quake and the North Hollywood bank robbery). He is best known to readers for his weekly humor pieces on life in suburban Los Angeles. His latest book, “Daditude,” released in 2018, is a collection of his favorite Times columns on fatherhood. He has written two other books, “Man of the House” and “Surviving Suburbia,” which reached the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. The Chicago native has also worked for papers in New Orleans and Miami.

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