LA closes half-billion dollar bridge after two weeks. - LAPD shuts down 6th Street Bridge "until further notice" due to illegal activity

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CBS News said:
As a series of dangerous speed maneuvers continue on the new 6th Street Viaduct Bridge in downtown Los Angeles, speed bumps are being installed and Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore is urging the public to remain vigilant to help an already overwhelmed police force.

Tuesday night LAPD shut down the bridge again in an effort to prevent crime. The closure will last "until further notice" due to illegal activity, LAPD tweeted.

“LAPD News: The 6th Street Bridge will be closed until further notice due to illegal activity and public safety concerns.

— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) July 27, 2022”

"We're not going to arrest our way out of this," Moore said Tuesday at a police commission meeting. "Despite the hundreds of impounds and citations and arrests, we still see the proliferation of this. So I'm asking for the public's help and support and assistance."

Speed bumps are being installed as city officials hope to mitigate the crimes. A center median and fencing to discourage people from scaling the archways could also be installed soon on a temporary basis, according to Moore.

The $588 million bridge, which opened to the public on July 10 and connects Boyle Heights and the downtown Arts District, was closed Sunday night for the third night in a row for what the Los Angeles Police Department characterized as "illegal activity."

Police have made more than 57 citations and impounded six vehicles over the last four days, according to Moore.

Moore said the bridge has become known as a place where people come to "find their 15 minutes of fame" by climbing onto the bridge's infrastructure, interrupting traffic and posting demonstrations on social media.

The majority of illegal activity is committed by people who are not from the surrounding community, according to Moore.

Video on social media from last weekend showed drivers spinning their wheels and performing other antics on the bridge, leaving the pavement scarred.

Some people even crawled onto the ribbon-like arches that line the bridge to get elevated views of the action.

Other isolated incidents have included a man getting a haircut in the middle of the bridge last Wednesday and another shadow boxing while wearing a red cape. The driver of a car involved in a July 18 crash abandoned the damaged Dodge Charger on the bridge and fled on foot.

The incidents are "drawing finite resources, limited resources away from more pressing duties to ensure the safety of this location," Moore said.

Overall, police have documented 657 street takeovers in Los Angeles so far this year. They have made 352 misdemeanor arrests, impounded 439 cars and issued more than 2,000 citations related to street racing and takeovers.

The opening of the Sixth Street Viaduct marked a key milestone in a construction project that began in 2016 to replace a 1932-vintage structure.

The original bridge was an iconic Los Angeles landmark, seen in movies including "Grease" and "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," but its aging structure was deteriorating, leaving it seismically unsound.
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Lol, it was a few months months ago that I watched an architecture video on YouTube praising this bridge.

The bridge is also featured in the official music video for the Street Fighter 6 theme.
 
The bridge looks really cool but it basically turned into a 24/7 sideshow/performance art space.

This is why we can't have nice things.
 
Other American cities have built cool looking bridges without it turning into chimp out central. Even in places with a more, umm, chimps than LA. I'm genuinely mystified.
 
Elwood P. Dowd said:
Other American cities have built cool looking bridges without it turning into chimp out central. Even in places with a more, umm, chimps than LA.
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those other chimp cities have (had) police forces full of angry gorillas who curbstomp chimps for fun whenever they act up
can't have that in current year though, especially not in LA
 
I love cars and I have street raced but takeovers are fucking retarded and they all deserve to get busted for their fucktarded drift circles and stuff.
 
"Spinning their wheels and performing other antics on the bridge, leaving the pavement scarred" lol no bro don't SCAR my pavement with your WHEEL SPINNING

lol who wrote this, seriously the level of just straight-up illiteracy is growing day by day, you can't even read modern books without running into totally retarded turns of phrase, various butcheries of sense and logic, and agenda/emotion poorly injected into words that would normally have their own meaning

Spreet "racers" are literally incompetents and morons, I don't think I've ever seen any of these people do anything that impressed me. They should be arrested for sucking so much ass if nothing else (Also probably for crimes against taste and sensibility with the christ awful horrors they drive). On the other hand, going to a local drift competition or autocross out in the middle of nowhere will show you at least a few kids who can really drive. Going to the road track will either humble you (because u suck) or show you just how bad everyone else is at limit driving (because you can drive with ur ass like a natural and you're lapping them every heat).
 
Mepsi Pax said:
"Spinning their wheels and performing other antics on the bridge, leaving the pavement scarred" lol no bro don't SCAR my pavement with your WHEEL SPINNING

lol who wrote this, seriously the level of just straight-up illiteracy is growing day by day, you can't even read modern books without running into totally retarded turns of phrase, various butcheries of sense and logic, and agenda/emotion poorly injected into words that would normally have their own meaning
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Using "spinning their wheels" this way kind of reminds me of Chris. It's a legitimate phrase, but he's using it completely incorrectly, which is something Chris did all the time.
 
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