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Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's website staff calculates some facts about the transportation experiment that delivered artist Michael Heizer's boulder to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Notable: At 340 tons, the boulder is four times as heavy as a granite slab in the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Whole list - excerpts:
- Miles traveled: 105
- Top speed: 5 mph
- Total gallons of diesel fuel burned: 2,250
- Gallons of diesel fuel to move one mile: 5
- Crowd estimate at Long Beach’s “Rock-a-pa-looza” Rock Party: 20,000
- Crowd estimate along Wilshire Boulevard between midnight and 4:30 a.m. for the Rock’s arrival at LACMA: 1,000+
- Cups of coffee sold after midnight at the Patina coffee cart outside LACMA: 175
- Free bookmarks handed out at Rock stops by LACMA: 110,000
- Consecutive hours deejays played songs with words “rock” or “stone” in the title: 5
- Tacos sold at Patricia’s Mexican Restaurant across from the Rock on Wednesday: 4,000. Tacos sold at Patricia’s on a normal weekday: 300
- Number of cars towed on Wilshire to make way for the Rock’s arrival at LACMA: 10
- Fine and towing fees for parking in the temporary no parking zone: $354.50
Fun fact: The towed cars included six Hondas and a Mercedes.
Video highlights of the 11-day, 105-mile journey from ZevWeb:
