No cars on Santa Monica Blvd. for most of Pride weekend

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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.

 

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Wayne
Wayne
1 year ago

Brandon, based on the PPT slide, your SMB westbound and eastbound dates and times are reversed in your article.

So What About Earth Day?
So What About Earth Day?
1 year ago

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”.

Bill Patterson
Bill Patterson
1 year ago

Pride is one of the deadly sins.

So What About Earth Day?
So What About Earth Day?
1 year ago
Reply to  Bill Patterson

Theoretically Sodom & Gomorrah is at home for the moment in West Hollywood.

angry gay pope
1 year ago

Excellent time for a non-car owner such as myself to love the taking of the streets back from Henry Ford’s slavery cult!

Mick Remmington
Mick Remmington
1 year ago
Reply to  angry gay pope

let me guess…..you don’t own a house either.

greeneyedguy
greeneyedguy
1 year ago

Ham, if you’re going to write under a different pseudonym, at least change up the writing style.

angry gay pope
1 year ago

No I don’t. Like the majority of weho residents.

Mick Remmington
Mick Remmington
1 year ago
Reply to  angry gay pope

what does that tell you? Home ownership rates in the US are at 66%. But WH is below 22%. Bad life decisions?

greeneyedguy
greeneyedguy
1 year ago

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.

Woke Up Weho
Woke Up Weho
1 year ago
Reply to  angry gay pope

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.

Michael G Labarbera
Michael G Labarbera
1 year ago

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.

Curtis
Curtis
1 year ago

Sunset Boulevard #2 bus runs all day….

Val
Val
1 year ago

Sunset and Melrose bus routes

Ham Shipey
Ham Shipey
1 year ago

Out of town that weekend. thank god.

Randy
Randy
1 year ago
Reply to  Ham Shipey

Thank God for us all. Hope you don’t have an Internet connection. If you even live here.

Jim Nasium
Jim Nasium
1 year ago

Thanks for the warning

Pete Strohl
Pete Strohl
1 year ago

Excellent time to leave town.