Brian Gaff wrote on 9/17/2012 :
Must be some very wide streets then...

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After arrival at LAX, Endeavour will be removed from the SCA and spend
a few weeks at a United Airlines hangar undergoing preparations for
transport and display. Endeavour then will travel through Inglewood
and Los Angeles city streets on a 12-mile journey from the airport to
the science center, arriving in the evening on Oct. 13.

Around LA, a grid street less than 4 lanes wide is unusual, and 6 lanes
wide (3 in each direction) is not hard to find. 7 lanes is findable (3
in each direction, plus room for left-turn lanes).

I haven't checked the route, although I've seen it marked several
months ago. Exposition Blvd is about as wide as they come, but it has
Metro light rail line. Martin Luther King Blvd is a 5-laner at 65
feet. Florence, which goes in the right direction (NE) much of the way
looks to be about 80 ft wide in a 7-lane configuration. That's not a
lot to spare for a 78 ft wingspan.

I do know that a bunch of trees are being cut down along the route, so
some of the route figures in the width of the sidewalks ("pavement" to
Brits?).

/dps


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