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Photo: Diane Edwardson, Saturday October 25, 2014. The 2 Freeway was shut down for several hours between the Terminus & the 5 Freeway for a bomb scare this morning. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 25, 2014. For some reason the southbound 5 Freeway ramp to the southbound 2 Freeway ramp remained open, keeping a mass of cars and large trucks idling on the 2 Freeway between 9 AM & 11:30 AM. Yet the southbound 5 Freeway (in the background) remained more traffic free than usual for a Saturday morning.
The steep topography of the canyon between the 5 Freeway & the Terminus plus the lack of wind meant all of the pollution from the southbound lanes concentrated close to the homes on the Silver Lake side of the 2 Freeway. (CalTrans doesn't want to give us more trees - they cut down the trees adjacent to Corralitas Drive in the above photo 20 years ago. After years of letter writing & phone calls, we got some shrubs - not trees - most of which they killed when they stopped watering them.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 25, 2015. At one point I noticed cars were being directed OFF of the on-ramp to the SB 2 Freeway at Allesandro Elementary School on Riverside Drive. (Usually the traffic is going the opposite direction on the ramp in the foreground).
Today's bomb scare story: The Eastsider
Wednesday's bomb scare at Riverside Fletcher: The Eastsider
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