West Hollywood will be full of foot traffic this weekend, which is reason for drivers to take care.
On Saturday the foot traffic will be on the sidewalks as 100 men and women, each wearing a suit and bowler hat, will walk along a pre-determined route carrying sandwich boards with thought-provoking words and images. “100 Walkers, West Hollywood,” is a project of artist Richard Kraft and the city’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission. The walk will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the El Tovar parking structure at the West Hollywood Library, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., south of Santa Monica. It will end there at 5:30 p.m.
On Sunday the foot traffic will be on the streets as an estimated 2,000 runners participate in the first Sunset Strip Half-Marathon and a separate five kilometer race. That event will require the closing of major streets to traffic at various times of the day and affect neighborhood parking.
The route will extend beyond Sunset Boulevard, forcing closures to traffic on April 19 of sections of Santa Monica, North San Vicente, North La Cienega, Beverly and Sunset boulevards and Melrose Avenue. (Streets that will be closed and the times are in the illustration above). The half-marathon will begin on San Vicente in front of West Hollywood Park and end there around 3 p.m. Runners can register for the race online through the end of today. Fees are $70 for the half-marathon and $40 for the 5K race.
I thought the events were great!
People! You live in a dense urban location. Events happen in cities, that’s what makes them fun to live in. Get over it.
If you want peace and quiet, there are plenty of quaint suburban neighborhoods you could move to.
This brings a total of 5 weekends where traffic is disrupted in the area on and below Sunset – Pride, Halloween, the Rock Festival, the Marathon, and now this new half marathon. The marathon and Pride are fine, but up to three of these should stop being sanctioned. The distruption is massive in my neighborhood. Neighboring sections of Beverly Hills and LA have only one of these events annually (the Marathon), and even then we are the only city to have it affect both Sunset and Santa Monica (of course the traffic disruptions from the others do have some spillover… Read more »
I still have to ask how a FOR PROFIT company managed to shut down much of the city for this. They added a weird charity component after I made a similar posting months ago but they leave it up to the runner to decide if they want to support a few charities instead of the organizers giving a percentage of their total to the charities. Are the organizers paying full price for all city services? Street closures, police, fire etc?
and what a wonderful weekend to get out of town…enjoy everybody !
the call of the wheel of fortune slot machines beckons me.