Press Release - Los Angeles Marathon - 3/16/10

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
         Street Closure Plan Announced For Honda LA Marathon
    All four municipalities on Stadium to the Sea route post plans

LOS ANGELES – March 16, 2010 – A carefully-coordinated program of street 
closures and traffic and safety control has been announced by each of the 
four cities through which Sunday's Honda LA Marathon presented by K-Swiss 
will run.

"The new Stadium to the Sea route moves through four municipalities," noted 
LA MARATHON LLC race director Nick Curl. "Each of these cities – Los 
Angeles, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica – has formulated 
their own street-closure and traffic-control plan to meet the needs of the 
25,000 participants and local residents.

"We urge people to check out the traffic plans posted by each city so that 
they'll be well informed on where they can and can't go and at what times 
of the day on Sunday."

Detailed maps of the route with specific closure and re-opening information 
are posted on the Web sites of each city along the route:

Beverly Hills: http://www.beverlyhills.org/attractions/marathon

Los Angeles: http://trafficinfo.lacity.org

Santa Monica: http://smgov.net/lamarathon

West Hollywood: 
http://www.weho.org/index.aspx?page=23&recordid=76&returnURL=%2findex.aspx

"The new race course means that traffic will re-open in the Downtown Los 
Angeles and Hollywood areas much earlier than in previous years," said 
Curl. "We hope everyone will take some time on Sunday to come and cheer the 
runners along the route."

The 25th edition of the Los Angeles Marathon will start at Dodger Stadium 
with the wheelchair participants at 6:55 a.m. on Sunday, March 21, to be 
followed by the women's elite runners at approximately 7:03 a.m. and the 
men's elites and the rest of the field approximately 7:20 a.m. 

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