The planned two-day closure of the 405, Los Angles’s main highway, has inspired a face-off between cyclists and the airline JetBlue. In a city already notorious for its traffic, highway officials are closing a ten-mile stretch of the 405 on Saturday and Sunday to demolish a bridge. News of the closure, which is now being called Carmageddon, has prompted a in L.A. JetBlue is selling plane tickets between Burbank and Long Beach for $4, prompting transportation writer and ϳԹ contributor Tom Vanderbilt to suggest that cyclists might travel the route faster. Now, L.A. cycling group Wolfpack Hustle has announced that it will put one of it’s members on the flight and send a group of five riders across the route at the same time, calling it the Bike vs. Flight challenge. Some traffic experts estimate that the closure may spark traffic jams of up to .
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