Oh, William Mulholland. You brought water to the LA basin, thus allowing a sprawling megalopolis to flourish. Your Saint Francis Dam’s failure washed away—among others—the picturesque little towns of Fillmore and Santa Paula; the torrent didn’t stop until it reached the sea. Yet the City of Los Angeles, she honored your rise from ditchdigger to head of the Department of Water and Power, even as the farmers of the Owens Valley cursed you for absconding with their lifeblood. Los Angeles named a meandering ridge road for you. One which became legendary for its spectacular vistas and multimillion-dollar estates. But oh, William Mulholland, come July, righteous fire shall rain down upon your name, for the planned destruction of the Mulholland Drive Bridge over the San Diego Freeway shall force the the Interstate to close for a planned 53 hours.
A ten-mile stretch of Interstate 405, between I-10 and US 101 will be closed from the evening of July 15th until the small hours of July 18th, so highway workers can dismantle the south side of the bridge and get a jump on construction of a northbound carpool lane. Traffic is going to be an even worse nightmare than usual. A year later, once reconstruction of the south end is complete, another closure will once again earn you the ire of Greater LA’s motoring public, Mulholland. May you rest easy in your Glendale plot, knowing that what you created shall fill the populace with a special sort of loathing. Though you know as well as we do that in Los Angeles, they forget. They forget, Mulholland. They forget.
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