[IGPP Everyone] Fwd: Construction and Traffic Impacts Beginning June 15, 2015

[Jim Nakatsuka]

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From: "UCLA Events & Transportation" <bruinpost at mdds.ucla.edu> 
To: jnakatsu at igpp.ucla.edu 
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 7:57:05 AM 
Subject: Construction and Traffic Impacts Beginning June 15, 2015 

Events & Transportation 
June 1, 2015 
PLEASE POST 
To: Deans, Directors, Department Chairs, and Administrative Officers 
Re: Construction and Traffic Impacts Beginning June 15, 2015 
In the coming months, two major construction projects will impact traffic in and around the UCLA campus. Beginning on Monday, June 15, at 7 a.m., and running until the beginning of Fall Quarter, Strathmore Place from Westwood Plaza to Charles E. Young Drive West will be closed to thru-traffic while significant enhancements are completed to the roadway under the Strathmore Bridge. Access to Parking Structure 8 (PS 8) will remain open, but levels 1 and 2 will no longer be accessible from the easternmost entrances on Strathmore. Please visit www.transportation.ucla.edu for vehicle and pedestrian detour maps as well as detailed points of entry/exits for PS 8. 
Also, beginning on Monday, June 15, 2015, at 7 a.m., running through the end of July 2015, as the first phase of a LADWP project to install 385 feet of new trunk line adjacent to campus, several hundred feet of Sunset Boulevard west of Hilgard Avenue will be reduced to one-lane in each direction and access to southbound lanes on Hilgard from Sunset will be completely closed. Two subsequent phases will connect the new trunk line to existing infrastructure at the Sunset/Hilgard intersection and along Hilgard Avenue, ending south of Charing Cross Road. For more specific information on the project, please visit www.transportation.ucla.edu . 
The Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Metro and Caltrans are requesting that those who do not have a critical need to be in or near the vicinity of this construction project avoid the Sunset/Hilgard intersection entirely. Motorists who must travel through the area during the dates listed above are advised to plan ahead, monitor real-time traffic conditions prior to their trip, and use alternate routes when possible. Motorists traveling on the I-405 are advised to use the Wilshire Boulevard exit and enter the campus through the south entrances. Motorists traveling eastbound on Sunset Boulevard should use Sepulveda Boulevard or Veteran Avenue as detour routes and motorists traveling westbound on Sunset Boulevard should use Beverly Glen Boulevard to Wilshire Boulevard as a detour route to the south campus entrances. 
As June 15 approaches, UCLA Transportation will provide additional information, including any designated detour routes and the times of specific lane reductions/closures. There will also be a few other minor construction improvement projects underway during the summer. Please visit www.transportation.ucla.edu on a regular basis for the most current information. If you expect to have employees, students, patients or other visitors traveling to or from the UCLA campus during the construction period, please advise them of these expected delays and to include additional travel time in their schedules. 
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Matthew Hissom, Senior Transportation Planner, at mhissom at ts.ucla.edu or 310-825-7835. 
Sincerely, 
Renée A. Fortier 
Executive Director 
Events & Transportation 
cc: 
	
Jack Powazek, Administrative Vice Chancellor 
John Mazziotta, Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences; CEO, UCLA Health 
James D. Herren, Chief of Police 




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