Well, not the end of the world but Carmageddon. Apparently even though the freeway is going to be closed for the weekend, and therefore completely devoid of cars (oh! the dream!), they still won’t let dudes totally chill in the fast lane.

People all over Los Angeles have been requesting to be allowed to bike, BBQ or promote movies on the temporarily abandoned parking lot known as the 405. Imagine that! Turning something that has been likened to the end of the world into something that would have brought the people of LA together. It would have been like Ciclavia or the time they closed the 110 just because they could.

According the L.A. Times: Commander Andy Smith of the LAPD’s Bummer Division said, “In planning for this closure, we gathered the best emergency around. We tried to think of everything but some of these requests are beyond even what we had anticipated.”

Of course you didn’t think of that Commander because you’re a police officer and coming up with ideas like this would have been outside the bounds of your job, which is to keep people inside their bounds.

It would have been amazing for the people of Los Angeles to be able to retake the ground given to cars if only for just one weekend. To assert that they are primary to the vehicles that dominate the American landscape. But of course LAPD isn’t there to make the community a better place, but simply to maintain the status quo.