The latest plans for WeHo Pride include closing a wide swath of Santa Monica Boulevard to vehicular traffic for most of the weekend.
A slide in City Hall’s PowerPoint presentation, shown during Thursday’s City Council’s Pride Subcommittee meeting, reveals eastbound SMB will be closed from La Cienega to Doheny from noon Friday, June 2, until 7 a.m. Monday, June 5. The same stretch of westbound lanes will close at 6 a.m. Saturday, June 3, and won’t re-open till 7 a.m. Monday. From 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 4, the road closure extends to Fairfax Ave. to accommodate the parade.
San Vicente Boulevard will also see closures. The stretch from Melrose to SMB won’t be open from 7 p.m. Thursday till 10 a.m. Monday. Starting 6 a.m. Saturday, it expands from SMB to Cynthia, which will remain closed till 7 a.m. Monday.
The closures have not been approved by City Council but represent a major expansion of the street festivities seen at last year’s inaugural WeHo Pride, the first year the event was produced independently of L.A. Pride.
Brandon, based on the PPT slide, your SMB westbound and eastbound dates and times are reversed in your article.
So Earth Day was not even worthy of turning all the lights along the boulevard Green? How disingenuous the City is pandering to conservation efforts and consciousness about the Earth however Pride gets to shut down the main arteries of the city so people can act like fools thinking Pride is an attribute. Pride is excessive self-esteem. Pride goes before a fall, “if one is too conceited or self important, something will happen to make you look foolish”.
Pride is one of the deadly sins.
Theoretically Sodom & Gomorrah is at home for the moment in West Hollywood.
Excellent time for a non-car owner such as myself to love the taking of the streets back from Henry Ford’s slavery cult!
let me guess…..you don’t own a house either.
Ham, if you’re going to write under a different pseudonym, at least change up the writing style.
No I don’t. Like the majority of weho residents.
what does that tell you? Home ownership rates in the US are at 66%. But WH is below 22%. Bad life decisions?
At least this person actually lives in West Hollywood.
Housing costs are also 198% above the national average here in LA.
West Hollywood was literally formed with renters rights in mind. That will never change.
Fortunately, for those living north of Fountain and East of La Cienega to Crescent Heights we don’t have to deal with the dreadful area around all the bars and restaurants. Imagine spending over a million dollars plus for these mainly cracking box house in that area. Along with the tiresome homeless screaming and defecting all the time in public.
I hope they do a better job of giving thought to public transit. During the last Pride event that closed SMB it was IMPOSSIBLE to get anywhere near Boystown. You were lucky if you could get near Fairfax. NOT a good condition for older people…walking…in the summer heat.
Sunset Boulevard #2 bus runs all day….
Sunset and Melrose bus routes
Out of town that weekend. thank god.
Thank God for us all. Hope you don’t have an Internet connection. If you even live here.
Thanks for the warning
Excellent time to leave town.