Past Obama visits bring traffic jams to Los Angeles
Traffic crawls along Santa Monica Boulevard as dozens of California Highway Patrol motorcycles are on standby to lead President Obama and his entourage from the Beverly Hilton Hotel during a 2012 visit. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Traffic on 6th Street is diverted during President Obama’s visit to Los Angeles’ Hancock Park area in 2011. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
The presidential motorcade makes its the way up Iredell Street during President Obama’s visit to a fundraiser at actor George Clooney’s home in Studio City in 2012. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Pedestrians and spectators try to get a glimpse of President Obama as his motorcade passes on his way to the first of two fundraisers in Los Angeles in May. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
People wave to the presidential motorcade on Laurel Canyon Boulevard near Ventura Boulevard as the president leaves a fundraiser at actor George Clooney’s home in 2012. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Rush-hour traffic is snarled along Beverly Glen and Sunset boulevards, where demonstrators gathered to protest as President Obama arrives to the Bel Air home of Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn in May. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
