Who Approved This?

They closed a highway in Los Angeles this morning. Not because of a fire or an earthquake or mudslides or rockfall - all of which have happened before - but to film a commercial.
   Yup, you heard that right. The city agreed to close an entire Eastbound stretch of the 105, the main artery leading out of LAX, to let some production company film a car commercial. Not only inconveniencing tens of thousands of people trying to leave LAX only to find they can't, but also making Saturday a nightmare for the people who live around LAX and have to deal with all the traffic that should have been on the highway.
   Am I the only one who thinks this is astonishingly wrong?
   Living around LA you get used to seeing film trucks, especially in Pasadena, where I live, which is a favorite location shoot since it's only about 10-15 miles from most studios. The first year you live here you get excited when you see the equipment trucks and the catering vans, and you try to spot anybody famous. Which, of course, you can't. Then the bloom wears off the rose and you see the film crews and trucks and tattooed fat guys in shorts for what they are, an interruption in your day that you can't avoid. Seeing the trucks stops being an 'ooh... look' moment and becomes an 'aw... crap' moment. You stop looking for famous people and start looking for the 'no parking' signs so you can tell how long the circus is going to be in town this time.
   Film productions do close streets from time to time, and every six months or so they'll close the Colorado Street bridge on a Sunday for a commercial. But an entire highway? And not only that, but the highway that is the ONLY way to get out of LAX without taking surface streets? Who got paid off to agree to that?
   Oh, wait, it's Los Angeles. EVERYBODY got paid off to agree to that.