8/18/2023 0 Comments Carmageddon dc 2011![]() Jet Blue used the event as a marketing campaign by selling $4 tickets to fly from Long Beach to Burbank. Even celebrities who messed up, such as Kim Kardashian, by tweeting the wrong dates after being asked to tweet about the closure, was used as a story to remind people of the correct date. They used the faces of elected officials on TV, and reached out to celebrities to put the word to stay off the street. They used print media, news media, Facebook, websites, Twitter, and community outreach presentations. They used old and new ways to reach out to the public. They planned ahead, anticipated every possible scenario, did not assume anything, and had a backup plan for every possible situation. ![]() So, what did the engineers and project managers do right? Well, they used every tool in the tool box to be ready. What was supposed to be a terrible event was not. Air quality was better in Los Angeles during the July 16 and 17 weekend due to lack of congestion and idling cars. I am not sure how much impact the economy suffered during the day and a half of closure, but the good news was that people enjoyed staying local, riding bicycles, and going to local parks instead of driving to ones farther out. A freeway closure is estimated to cost the local economy $1 million a day. What most of the public may not have known was the cost of staffing to deal with the project, including overtime for police, fire department personnel, city and Caltrans staff, and much additional coordination that was needed. Well, the great incentive was the $300,000 bonus that the contractor made for finishing work 17 hours early. Apparently, a $6,000 penalty for every 10 minutes of delay was placed in the contract. Before I got on the freeway, I looked up the SigAlert map, and to my great pleasure, I saw almost all roads marked green except for the portion of freeway where the I-405 that was closed was marked red.Īs an engineer and a project manager, I have to applaud the City of Los Angeles, Caltrans and specifically Kiewit Infrastructure West for amazing coordination, planning, meticulous scheduling and implementation that went like clockwork. Well, it was because many of the people of Los Angeles listened and avoided the roads. I drove Saturday morning to the airport and the road was amazingly clear, with barely any traffic or delays, and I arrived in record time from Rancho Santa Margarita to Long Beach. He called on Wednesday asking if I knew anything about Carmageddon, and I told him it should be ok, and not to worry about it. I did not think much about it because Orange County was not supposed to be impacted. My son called a week before the closure and said that he is flying into Long Beach Airport on Saturday July 16, and asked me to pick him up. For months before the closure, the City of LA was preparing the public for the worse, but things worked out pretty well due to the great effort in preparation. The I-405Freeway is traveled by about 500,000 cars a day, and it was expected that all other surface roads and other freeways would face major congestion as a result of the closure. ![]() ![]() July 16 were supposed to be one of the worst traffic nightmares that LA has ever faced, due to the 10 mile closure of the Interstate 405. The developer followed that game with a series of sequels, including Carmageddon 2: Carpocalypse Now, Carmageddon TDR 2000, and Carmageddon: Reincarnation.President's Message Lessons from Carmageddon The Carmageddon series kicked off in 1997, with Stainless Games’ original game for Mac, MS-DOS, and Windows PC. We called its brand of destruction-filled racing some of the most fun we had in 2019. Wreckfest is available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. Wreckfest’s version of vehicular homicide is more about cleaning up the streets of undead, with palatable splashes of green, pixelated blood splashing across the screen. The action is certainly less sadistic than the original Carmageddon, which awarded players bonus points for running over innocent pedestrians. Wreckfest players will be able to race through two vintage Carmageddon tracks (Bleak City and Death Canyon) and ride in the sawblade-adorned Eagle R car, which appeared in 2016’s Carmageddon: Max Damage. Wreckfest’s latest tournament borrows its visuals from the original Carmageddon, a pixelated mess by modern standards, which gives it a sense of charm. A new update adds a new car, two new tracks, and streets filled with zombies (and zombie cows) to plow through. The spirit of classic, violent racing game series Carmageddon is coming to Wreckfest, Bugbear Entertainment’s demolition derby-themed racing game. ![]()
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