Carmageddon! July 16-17

[tangentgirl]

This does my heart good: First, JetBlue is offering $4 flights from Burbank to Long Beach and vice versa on Saturday. One-time deal.

Second, a cycling group called the Wolfpack Hustle is challenging JetBlue to a race. They will leave Burbank on bicycles and ride to the Long Beach Aquarium.

At the same time, a bike blogger will drive to the Burbank Airport, wait for his flight, fly from Burbank to the LBC, then get from the plane to the Aquarium.

Whoever gets to the Aquarium first wins.

Taking the LA River bike path, the route should be about 37 miles for the cyclists.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...town-race.html

[7rider]

Being in Maryland, I thought this was just some distant wonder for you CA folks.
But then I realized, I'm flying into LAX and will be in Long Beach all week for meetings.
Yikes. Okay. So I won't be driving anywhere, and will just be taking a cab or shuttle from the airport to the hotel (where I'll be captive in conference rooms each day...blech).
I heard the contractor will get fined $6,000 per MINUTE if the closure goes longer than scheduled. I hope that means that all this mess will be done and gone by the time I get there!

[KnottedYet]

This does my heart good: First, JetBlue is offering $4 flights from Burbank to Long Beach and vice versa on Saturday. One-time deal.

Second, a cycling group called the Wolfpack Hustle is challenging JetBlue to a race. They will leave Burbank on bicycles and ride to the Long Beach Aquarium.

At the same time, a bike blogger will drive to the Burbank Airport, wait for his flight, fly from Burbank to the LBC, then get from the plane to the Aquarium.

Whoever gets to the Aquarium first wins.

Taking the LA River bike path, the route should be about 37 miles for the cyclists.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...town-race.html

Hey, the dude flying is only planning to get to the airport 1 hour ahead of flight time. I thought TSA wanted people to be at the airport TWO hours ahead of flight time.

Bikes are gonna win anyway....

[tangentgirl]

Hey, the dude flying is only planning to get to the airport 1 hour ahead of flight time. I thought TSA wanted people to be at the airport TWO hours ahead of flight time.

Nah, only if you're checking bags. Even then, two hours is a long time. I usually get there an hour or so ahead.

The bike folks are totally gonna win. The LA River path is a straight shot, no lights no cars no nuthin.

[tangentgirl]

Victoire!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ue-flight.html

[Jiten]

Victoire!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...ue-flight.html

That is just too awesome. And funny!

"The plane had just taken off when the cyclists arrived."

Even fully loaded touring bikes could've done better than JetBlue, I think.