Even though Christmas Day falls on a Monday, forcing many people to return to work Tuesday morning, transportation officials said they still expected the usual pattern, in which the heaviest holiday travel would come the day after Christmas.
It's impossible to write about "Midnight in Paris" without giving away its great coup de cinéma (one that, however, the film's trailer doesn't betray) — the midnight transportation of its protagonist, the screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender Owen Wilsonn), from contemporary Paris to the Paris of the nineteen-twenties.
All lanes of the 91 Freeway in Corona, which closed for major construction work, reopened early Monday morning, transportation officials said.
As drivers coped with a partial highway closure on the first day of Jamzilla on Saturday, construction of a new carpool lane on the northbound 405 Freeway proceeded on schedule and should be completed in time for rush hour Tuesday morning, transportation officials said.
By that afternoon, the transportation commissioner, James W. Weinstein jr., decided to restore Tristate officials to their advisory posts.
He'll be giving his third state of the State speech Wednesday evening, and transportation is expected to play a central role.
Last night, the transportation authority's chief negotiator, Gary Dellaverson, criticized the decision to authorize a strike, saying threats of illegal action would not make reaching a settlement any more likely.
The problems are especially acute for the poor and disabled, and for workers who clock out late at night, when transportation options are already limited.
Have a designated driver for the night if transportation is needed.
"Since Sunday's accident, we have been working on interim actions that will be implemented on the parkway beginning this morning," the state transportation commissioner, Joan McDonald, said in a statement.
