Construction to Close Lanes on 2 Freeways
Up to three lanes of the Hollywood and Ventura freeways in the San Fernando Valley will be closed tonight and Saturday night to facilitate work on widening the congested thoroughfares, Caltrans announced Thursday.
From 11 tonight to 11 a.m. Saturday, up to two westbound lanes will be closed on the Ventura Freeway between Hayvenhurst Avenue and Reseda Boulevard, and up to two eastbound lanes on the freeway will be closed between Wilbur and Hayvenhurst avenues.
From 11 p.m. Saturday to 11 a.m. Sunday, as many as three northbound lanes on the Hollywood Freeway will be closed between Universal Center Drive and the Los Angeles River bridge. Also, two Hollywood Freeway southbound lanes will be closed between the interchange with the Ventura Freeway and the Los Angeles River bridge.
On Saturday night, the eastbound Ventura Freeway connector road to the southbound Hollywood Freeway will be closed.
The northbound Lankershim Boulevard on- and off-ramps on the Hollywood Freeway also will be closed Saturday night.
“For Saturday night’s closure, motorists will be detoured off the Ventura Freeway at Vineland Avenue, where they can continue southbound on the Hollywood Freeway,” said Jim McAllister, resident engineer for the project.
The closures are part of a $62-million project to widen the Ventura and Hollywood freeways from Universal City to Agoura Hills. When the project is completed in early 1992, the two freeways will be 10 lanes wide from Lankershim Boulevard to Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
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