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[The president's] L.A. visit: Westside residents urged to stay home to avoid gridlock
April 21, 2011 | 8:01 am
Authorities said they were taking steps to avoid a repeat of past gridlock when [the president] arrives in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl urged Westside residents to plan activities at home during the period the president will be moving around or face “putting yourself into potential gridlock.”
[The president] will arrive at Los Angeles International Airport at 2:45 p.m. He will spend some time at a fundraiser at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City. He is scheduled to dine at the Tavern restaurant in Brentwood. It's unclear where he will spend the night, but the president is scheduled to depart from LAX about 9 a.m. Friday, at the heart of the morning commute.
[The president's] visit to L.A. last summer closed numerous streets from downtown L.A. through the Westside, turning 45-minute commutes into three-hour ordeals. In his next visit in the fall he used a helicopter for some stops, and the traffic situation improved.
"Every effort is being made to minimize the impact to the residential communities and businesses affected by the president’s visit," the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement. "Although it is not always possible to provide advanced information regarding the specific routes of travel involving the president, we are committed to utilizing traffic control measures that minimize the impact upon commuters while still maintaining the safety of the President as well as the communities involved."
Rosendahl said that after the traffic nightmare last summer, he talked to White House officials and urged them to use a helicopter, which they ultimately did. He said the president’s advance team gave “encouraging signs that they appreciated that situation on the Westside.”
While there will be some hard closures and parking bans on designated streets, efforts would be made to quickly reopen them after the president’s motorcade passes by, he said.
“The president's security will be directly relate to the president’s movements and his security needs and will not be arbitrarily based. There will be flexibility,” Rosendahl said. “Frankly there wasn’t in that visit to Hancock Park. I'm hoping [this time] there will be a balance between the president’s security needs and the Westside constituents’ sensibility toward gridlock.”
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While the president does his thing, I hope that a number of drivers will take the time to think about the decision they made in 2008 and the one they will make next year as they ponder
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Originally Posted by LordReagal
I was looking for reason why people don't like [the president]. I always thought he was cool. These guys gave me some good points though.
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He is a self-serving opportunist who is driven by an ambition that far exceeds his abilities. He is the political equivalent of a reality television personality who confuses popularity for artistic achievement. He is unprincipled in that he will allow his supporters to think he shares their views and concerns. He is lazy and morally corrupt in that he will accept accolades that he has not earned. He is most dangerous because he overestimates his jejune intellect and he intentionally exploits race, class, and gender relations in America to his benefit.
Other than that...
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* Satoshi Tomiie featuring Kelli Ali, "Love in Traffic," remixed by John Digweed,
Global Underground 019: Los Angeles (2001), disc 1, track 2.