Managing the influx of vehicles and materials is critical to maintaining the community’s functionality during reconstruction. Key traffic management strategies include:
- Inbound/Outbound Routing: Deliveries will follow time-sensitive routing—eastbound inbound (AM), westbound outbound (PM) via Chautauqua or Sunset Boulevard—to reduce traffic bottlenecks.
- Heavy Haul Management: Large material transports will be scheduled during low-traffic windows (late night/early morning) to minimize disruptions.
- Alternative Delivery Modes: Drone and helicopter use is being investigated for sites with difficult access to avoid additional road strain. A Palisades Rebuilding Authority can hire a professional logistics consultant to craft this plan with neighborhood input.
We propose that in areas of Pacific Palisades where the burn rate exceeds 70%, material deliveries can be made late at night or early in the morning in order to accommodate both swift rebuilding as well as reduced traffic/travel time. Repopulation in those areas will be minimal in the first few years of our rebuilding and, as such, the inconvenience of construction will be felt by few people – a circumstance that can help speed the rebuild of communities by implementing longer working hours for builders and extended delivery hours for material.
As an extension of more hours reserved for construction and a swift rebuilding of our hardest hit Palisadian neighborhoods, we have contemplated staging areas for workers to stay in the Palisades during the work week so the work of building can be hastened, and with the added benefit of taking cars off the road, reducing trips in and out of the Palisades, and ensuring that our neighbors across Los Angeles are not gridlocked and frustrated with us!
Truck trips as well as workers on the road leading in and out of Pacific Palisades can compound time delays. So, as we look ahead to the onset of rebuilding, we have also contemplated staging areas for not only materials but also for workers. Steel, lumber, plumbing and electric materials, fire-proof siding material and other materials as well as workers can be staged on flat lots in areas such as the Alphabet streets where lots are flat and usually small, Marquez flats where there has been almost complete devastation and the area lies close to Sunset Boulevard, and the Huntington where larger flat lots may serve a different purpose as rebuilding increases in the months ahead. Properties such as the Alma Real professional building and Paul Revere Middle School (during summer months) can also be utilized as staging areas, not only for materials, but for centralized services. Worker accommodations could potentially be created at beach parking lots, with shuttle services easing traffic through the hills.
