“Are you kidding? I’m outta here,” says Gordon Lawrence, who plans to seize the opportunity to visit a new girlfriend in Fresno. “Traffic in this town is already nuts on the weekend, so I am only too happy to say, ‘C’est la vie,’ for a few days.”
He lives north of the closed segment and will head further out of the city. He’ll get up at 6 a.m. Saturday and head out north on the 405 before any traffic activity has started, he says. Although key on-ramps to the 405 will be shut off as of 7 p.m. Friday, full closure doesn’t happen until midnight.
“If I get going at the crack of dawn, I should beat the worst of it,” Mr. Lawrence says.
