WEST LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Seven people were cited on Sunday for allegedly entering closed portions of the 405 Freeway.

Amy Johnson, reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, said they consisted of four rollerbladers, a newlywed couple and one pedestrian.

Earlier Sunday, KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO reported via Twitter that the newlyweds were cited on the Sunset Boulevard on-ramp of the southbound 405 Freeway.

The couple was spotted about 3:40 a.m., said California Highway Patrol officer Charmaine Fajardo.

Officials urged motorists and residents to steer clear of the closed freeway.

Johnson also said a tourist couple from Europe was not cited as they went on the freeway by accident.

Former professional skateboarder Cindy Whitehead,  a Hermosa Beach resident, was also not cited. She thought it would be fun to skate down a stretch of the freeway  around 8 a.m.

Johnson spoke to Whitehead and her husband about their daring two-minute caper.

Whitehead’s husband, professional photographer Ian Logan, took a series of photos. “We just thought it would be a very iconic photo to make,” she explained.

Said Logan, “We thought it would be an opportunity to do something that was completely California. Freeways and skateboards? It was, you know, you gotta try it.”

Whitehead knew there were risks involved. She had the names and phone numbers of a bail bondsman, a friend and an attorney written in marker on her arms, just in case she was arrested.

She said, “I was hoping people would see the good natured-ness in it. I wasn’t trying to harm anyone. I wasn’t trying to be dangerous.”

Whitehead adds, “I’m glad I did it. I’m glad it’s done. It was a lot of fun, it was fun for two minutes. And it’s something I can say I have done. Not too many people can say they have ridden the 405 Freeway on a skateboard.”

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In the meantime dust off that bike, blow up them tires and enjoy a car free weekend. There’s still plenty to do over the weekend that does not rely on a car from the Herbalife Triathlon that ends at L.A. Live to the Italian Feast of San Gennaro in Hollywood to the FLASHBACK FRIDAY happening at your finger tips as we speak.

While your ride is away these rides will play…It’s Flashback Friday Carmageddon Edition!

1990 – Vanilla Ice “Ice Ice Baby”

1993 – Ice Cube “It Was A Good Day” (Parental Advisory)

1998 – Korn – “Got The Life”

1998 – Robbie Williams “Millenium”

1999 – Dr. Dre – “Still Dre”

2000 – Limp Bizkit – “Rollin”

2001 – Nelly “Ride Wit Me”

2002 – Ludacris – “Move B****”

2007 – Rihanna “Shut Up & Drive”

2008 – The Pussycat Dolls “When I Grow Up”

2010 – Rick Ross – “Aston Martin Music”

1) Last year, everyone stayed home, so no one was driving. That meant there was virtually no traffic. Which means you can roller blade down Wilshire Blvd. in neon booty shorts at 3pm and practically no one will see you. OK, that’s a lie, but if you decide to do this, please let us know so JACK FM can follow you and document it.

2) Metro LA has some local events you can check out. Yep, we have public transportation in Los Angeles. Nope, it’s not really that sketchy. In fact, some of the stations are like urban museums with unique, interesting artwork. And lots of weirdo eye candy in the form of your fellow Angelenos.

3) You can listen to JACK FM in your house all day. Shockingly, some establishments actually play OTHER KINDS OF RADIO. Why go somewhere that isn’t playing JACK FM? Thanks to Carmageddon 2.0 you will never miss another “bunch of songs in a row.”

4) You can save money. Going out costs money. Staying in costs little to no money. Back in the old days, when only rich people had cars, more people saved money. Actually, we don’t know if that’s true, but we couldn’t think of five full reasons why Carmageddon doesn’t suck so we just made something semi-reasonable up.

5) If you stay home, you don’t have any reason to use iPhone’s new map app. Which just totally blows and is practically impossible to use. We know Apple apologized, but with cumbersome 3D and a snarky Siri giving driving directions, we’d rather use a Thomas Guide. Remember those?

Wow, JACK FM is old.

–Nadia Noir, CBS Radio Los Angeles

Last summer it was “Carmageddon” – and this weekend it’s the sequel!!

But we at Top Story! Weekly are doing our part to make things run as smoothly this time as they did last time, by taking part in LA Metro‘s “Eat, Shop and Play Locally” program!

This Sunday, September 30, you can get two-for-one tickets to our show – featuring Frank Conniff from “Mystery Science Theater 3000!” Just show up at the iO West box office prior to our show at 9, and show your valid TAP card or your Metro ticket, and provided tickets are available you can get two tickets for the low price of $5! And your tickets will get you into all shows at iO West that night – including “Deskpiece Nation,” featuring writers from “Conan”, at 10, and “Back to School,” a sketch show with lots of TS!W writers and performers, at 11!

You can only get this discount at the box office on Sunday, so please don’t call in advance or try to buy them online. And iO West has a full bar, so you need to be 21 or over to see a show on the Mainstage. Valet parking is available for $5 with validation.

And here’s a bonus: we have a very limited number of comps for this show – if you’d like one, please tweet at us at @topstoryweekly and if we haven’t run out we’ll add you to our comp list! (Maximum two comps per person).

So do your part to make sure that “Carmageddon 2″ isn’t a disaster – play locally in Hollywood Sunday by heading over to iO West for Top Story! Weekly!

Part one of Carmageddon, which took place in July of 2011, went off without any major traffic issues since most people stayed off the roads.

This time around, will people do the same or will we ignore the warning? There’s no way to predict what will happen, but here’s everything you need to know about this weekend’s closure!

How To Still Have Fun During Carmageddon 2!

Both sides of the 405 freeway will be closed on Saturday, Sept. 29 and Sunday, Sept. 30.

The northbound side will be shut down between the 10 and the 101 and the southbound side from Burbank Boulevard north of the 101 down to the Getty Center Drive on-ramp.

Carmageddon is just part of the Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project that will eventually widen the 405 freeway and add a carpool lane through the Sepulveda Pass.

Even though a full closure isn’t expected until midnight on Saturday morning, crews will start closing ramps as early as 7 p.m. on Friday. Individual lanes will begin closing at 10 p.m.

Ending early like last year isn’t likely because CalTrans has about 30% more work to do in the same amount of time.

As of now, the 405 is scheduled to re-open at 5 a.m. on Monday, just in time for the morning commute.

Sepulveda Boulevard will be open over the weekend, but officials warn that the alternate route is likely to take the brunt of the traffic.

Hundreds of businesses are offering discounts over the weekend. Check out Metro’s “Eat, Shop, and Play Locally” interactive map to find deals in your area or check out the full list of retailers here.

• Are you planning to brave the traffic this weekend? Tell us why or why not in the comments section!

-Sarah Carroll, 97.1 AMP Radio/Los Angeles

For constant updates on what’s happening at 97.1 AMP Radio, follow us on Facebook and Twitter @ampradio.

SEPULVEDA PASS (CBSLA.com) — As final preparations take place for this weekend’s Carmageddon II, opinions differ on whether the 405 freeway reconstruction project in the Sepulveda Pass will even make much of a difference to the average commuter.

Caltrans executives and local officials believe the Sepulveda Pass Improvement Project, which will expand the 405 and add a longer commuter lane, will relieve congestion, increase the flow of traffic, and speed up the commute back and forth for drivers.

Sharm Schaffler hopes the freeway work will at least bring temporary relief to commuters.

“The 405 needs to be fixed. It’s a major highway, it shouldn’t be like that,” he said.

Veteran traffic school teacher Kenny Morse, aka Mr. Traffic, said expanding the 405 won’t make a difference.

“Carpool lanes certainly aren’t the answer. It’d be nice if they were,” he said.

Morse, who hosts a national radio talk show on transportation and founded a popular Los Angeles traffic website, said fixing crumbling infrastructure is important.

However, he said the billion dollars should be spent on a solution that would really make a difference, such as rapid transit.

The entire road project is expected to be finished in late 2013.

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Metro has a multiple links and information on the 405 project: countdown to closure II website. Click image above for information.

Click image to check out current traffic patterns.

A quick check of Sigalert.com may avoid a lengthy delay this weekend as it relates to Los Angeles County traffic. Sigalert.com shows up-to-the-minute traffic information and is a valuable tool to commuters.

Who says that time is a healer? Stainless Games certainly doesn’t think so, as it has demonstrated by lovingly digitizing Double Fine Production’s Tim Schafer for its Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter campaign, then running him over. Three times. (Check around the 3:09 mark in this video.)

Schafer’s crime? His classic point-and-click adventure, Grim Fandango, beat Stainless’ vehicular-combat game Carmageddon 2 to the number-one spot in sales, way back in 1998. Stainless co-founder Neil Barnden says it was a close thing, with Carmageddon 2 being edged out “by about 40 copies sold.”

Schafer, of course, is largely responsible for the huge wave of gaming Kickstarter campaigns we are currently seeing, since bagging a record $3.3M for the proposed “Double Fine Adventure.” The irony of this is not lost on Barnden, who remarks: “It’s a small world, but we have long memories…Tim,” before playing a clip of the digitized Schafer being pursued and knocked down.

Not content with simply running Schafer over once, his flattened image is also used to promote the $1,000 Kickstarter pledge package called “Fatal Immortality.” The reward for this level of donation is to have your likeness, or that of someone you dislike, inserted into the game as a pedestrian.

The third appearance of Schafer is on the Stainless Games website, where he is attached, rather uncomfortably, to the front grille of a dump truck.

Schafer appears to be taking the stunt in typically good humor, as it was presumably intended. When pointed via Twitter to the fact that, “there is a terrifying [flattened image] of your face on the BBC news,” Schafer replied: “Is ‘terrifying’ the British word for ‘arousing’?”

The Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter is looking for $400K and is currently on $173K after just a few days. Very much in the spirit of the original PC game, Carmageddon: Reincarnation will apparently “reintroduce the gaming world to the original free-form driving sensation, where pedestrians (and cows) equal points, and your opponents are a bunch of crazies in a twisted mix of automotive killing machines.”

• Wine Expo
Deal: Drink, but don’t drive—customers will get 40.5 percent off their bill at the wine store’s accompanying Wine Bar. The deal will pre-empt the happy hour that normally happens on those days. Moreover, the Wine Expo will slash prices on select items in the store itself. Valid: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights

• Vidiots
Deal: “405 Closure Special”: Rent five movies for $15 and keep them for up to five days. Stay home and avoid the traffic nightmare. Valid: July 14, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; July 15, 10 a.m. to midnight; July 16, noon to midnight; July 17, noon to 11 p.m.; July 18, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

• Santa Monica Playhouse
Deal: Enjoy free tickets to all performances of the wildly popular Rudie-DeCarlo musical All Join In, as well as a sing-along with the actors, song/activity books to take home, a chance to win prizes and get all the complimentary Pirate’s Booty you can eat. Valid: July 16 to 17, 12:30 and 3 p.m.

For more deals, check out Santa Monica Patch.