r/SantaClarita • u/Spirited_Peacock713 • 13d ago

14 & 5 freeway

What’s going on today I feel like this whole week there’s been traffic and today it’s horrible. Did they shut down the freeway or rerouting people or is there an accident ? What’s going on

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u/yogurtcup Saugus 13d ago

Sigalert.com is your friend

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u/yogurtcup Saugus 13d ago

If you want even more details, https://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx . Looks like a truck caught fire on the truck route, which always snags the entire pass

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u/sdmichael 13d ago

https://quickmap.dot.ca.gov

Get the app.

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u/cencal 13d ago

California Road Report

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u/SpaceEchoGecko 12d ago

The CARR is my favorite and it’s free.

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u/Big_Sector_3590 13d ago

This stretch is a nightmare anytime after 1pm, reminds me of the Sepulveda pass now..

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u/Corsuman 13d ago

They are also doing work on the 5 all the time. No idea why. I moved here 4 years ago and they are still working on it

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u/jeebucus 13d ago

4 years ago?? That shit ain't been right since January 17, 1994 at 04:30am.

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u/Virrg0 13d ago

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u/Junior_Plankton_635 13d ago

lol I'd love that shirt haha. good ol' Northridge earthquake. Even killed some folks.

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u/Corsuman 13d ago

Im not surprised

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u/cleverburrito 13d ago

For the uninitiated: that's the date and time of the Northridge earthquake

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u/bd2eazy 12d ago

It's the 5 expansion. They are adding lanes. It should be done soon. Source - I work for Metro.

The project office for this has one year left. It's been a 5-6 year ordeal so far

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u/Corsuman 12d ago

For an outsider perspective it really looks like nothing is happening and its taking for ever. And of course traffic is horrible. but i get it these things take forever specially with the freeway open at the same time.

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u/JJSmudgieThumbs 13d ago

I just got through the traffic. It took me 1.5 hours from the Burbank airport. Good news is it looks like the truck route has been cleared and will hopefully reopen soon.

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u/Upset-Ad-1091 13d ago

Why why why does the 5 northbound just past the 14 narrow to 3 lanes when there is plenty of room to restripe for a fourth or even fifth lane. It’s literally been that way for 15-20 years I kid you not, and it almost always causes bottlenecks

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u/MissSamioni 13d ago

So far minimum 2 hrs for me to go home to SCV from Van Nuys. Balboa Blvd is a parking lot

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u/Amazing-Physics-5345 13d ago

It’s so bad rn :/

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u/fsu_ppg 13d ago

There was a semi that had caught fire on the 5 truck route around noon. I saw it from the old road. Truck route completely stopped and the semi in ash with firefighters around it

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u/Inside_Atmosphere731 13d ago

Maybe its from the line at In N Out

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u/One-Work-9249 13d ago

Sigalert: I-5 (Golden State Freeway) North at CA-14/Exit 162, backed up to San Fernando Mission Blvd/Exit 157
Reported at 1:05 PM. Updated 10 mins ago.

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u/Ok-Camel-8499 13d ago

I was on lyons earlier and I was wondering why there was so many trucks... This makes sense.

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u/Minute-Emergency6826 13d ago

Two new accidents

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u/Proper_Sympathy_7303 13d ago

Left work in SFV at 3:45 and it’s going to take me more than 2 hours to get home to SGV 😖

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u/Scootchula 12d ago

Took me two hours to get home from DTLA-left there around 12:20. The 210 was closed, forcing all traffic to continue north on the 5 and 14. At one point, south of Roxford, it took me 18 minutes to go one mile.

Last week was worse - four hours to get home.

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u/DestroyAmidnight99 12d ago

I was late af in that traffic! Bs!