B757 LNDG LGB ON RWY 30 INSTRUCTED TO TURN OFF ON TXWY K; BUT CAPT FLYING BECAME CONFUSED AND TURNED OFF ON RWY 25R.

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THE FLT WAS CLRED TO LAND ON RWY 30 IN LGB WITH NO LAHSO INSTRUCTIONS. LAHSO OPS ARE NOT AUTH FOR OUR FLTS. BEFORE LNDG; I HAD CONSULTED MY LGB TXWY CHART AND HAD PLANNED ON A L TURN OFF OF THE RWY. I HAD NOT DECIDED IF WE WOULD USE THE FULL LENGTH OR PLAN ON A TURNOFF NEAR THE TXWY K/TXWY B RWY 25R AREA. DURING ROLLOUT; THE LGB TWR TOLD US TO TURN L OR R ONTO TXWY K AND TO CONTACT GND CTL. MY COPLT IMMEDIATELY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WE WOULD MAKE A L TURN WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING ME AS TO WHETHER OR NOT WE COULD MAKE THE TURNOFF. AT THAT POINT I BEGAN LOOKING FOR THE TXWY SIGN FOR TXWY I. I SLOWED THE ACFT AND BEGAN A L TURN ONTO WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE RWY 25R; THINKING THAT I WAS TURNING ONTO TXWY K. AFTER REALIZING WHAT I WAS DOING; I BEGAN TO TELL MY COPLT TO ASK FOR PERMISSION TO USE RWY 25R BUT THE TWR FREQ BECAME CONGESTED. I WANTED TO EXIT RWY 25R ASAP AND DID SO TURNING ONTO TXWY D. UPON REACHING OUR PARKING SPOT THE GND CTLR GAVE US A PHONE NUMBER TO CALL DUE TO A POSSIBLE PLTDEV. DURING THE LNDG ROLLOUT; WHEN I WAS TRYING TO LOCATE THE SIGN FOR TXWY K; I OBSERVED NUMEROUS SAND BAGS AND PLASTIC BLAZE-ORANGE BARRICADES LAYING IN CLOSE PROX TO TXWYS B AND K. THERE ARE 2 SAND BAGS PLACED NEXT TO EACH TXWY LIGHT AT THAT INTXN. THERE ARE ALSO DISMANTLED BLAZE-ORANGE BARRICADES MEASURING APPROX 12 INCHES BY 6 FT LYING WITHIN THE 'ISLAND' AREAS AROUND THESE INTXNS. I SAW THIS CONSTRUCTION EQUIP IN THIS AREA DURING MY DECISION MAKING TIME. I ALSO SAW AN OBSTRUCTION ACROSS A TXWY; WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE TXWY K; THAT APPEARED TO BE A SERIES OF METALLIC X'S THAT WERE REFLECTING IN THE SUNLIGHT. THESE APPEARED TO ME AT THE TIME TO RESEMBLE THE TIRE SHREDDERS THAT ARE INSTALLED AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AROUND THE COUNTRY. I WAS TRYING TO DECIDE WHY SUCH A DEVICE WOULD BE INSTALLED AT AN ARPT EVEN DURING CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES. I WASN'T SURE WHY THEY WERE THERE; BUT I KNEW THAT I DID NOT WANT TO TAXI MY ACFT ACROSS THEM. I WAS THINKING THAT THE CTLR COULD NOT POSSIBLY MEAN FOR ME TO USE THAT TXWY. TXWYS B; K; AND RWY 25R ARE ALL IN CLOSE PROX TO ONE ANOTHER IN THIS AREA. THESE EVENTS AND THOUGHT PROCESSES WERE ALL TRANSPIRING DURING THE LAST STAGE OF THE LNDG ROLLOUT. AFTER TAXIING TO OUR PARKING AREA I CALLED THE LGB TWR ON A CELL PHONE. I TOLD THE PERSON THAT I SAW AN OBSTRUCTION ACROSS TXWY K AND RELATED WHAT I HAD SEEN. HE LOOKED THROUGH HIS BINOCULARS AND STATED THAT HE SAW NO OBSTRUCTION AT THAT TIME. I LATER RODE IN A PICKUP TRUCK TO THE INTXN TO SEE FOR MYSELF WHAT WAS IN THE INTXN. THE ONLY PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR THE 'TIRE SHREDDERS' THAT I SAW WERE HEAT WAVES THAT WERE SHIMMERING ACROSS THE INTXN. I PERCEIVED THESE TO BE SOME SORT OF OBSTRUCTION AND DECIDED NOT TO TURN ONTO THAT INTXN. I LATER LEARNED THAT RWY 30 IS CLOSED ON THE WKENDS AND AT NIGHT FOR CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES AND THE ITEMS I SAW WERE INDEED RELATED TO THIS WORK. THE BLAZE-ORANGE BARRICADES LYING ON THE GND ARE THERE TO DELINEATE ELECTRICAL WORK THAT IS BEING DONE. I LATER TALKED TO THE TWR SUPVR; AND HE STATED THAT THIS AREA IS A PROB AREA FOR THE LGB ARPT. HE TOLD ME THAT THE LCL CTLRS KNOW OF THIS AREA AND THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER AIRLINERS THAT HAVE DONE EXACTLY WHAT I HAD DONE. I ASKED WHY THIS IS NOT AN ARPT 'HOT SPOT' AND HE HAD NO EXPLANATION. I ALSO ASKED WHY THERE IS NOTHING ON THE ATIS AND HE STATED THAT THEY HAVE A PROB WITH PLTS COMPLAINING ABOUT THERE ALREADY BEING TOO MUCH INFO ON THE ATIS BROADCAST. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 627875: I WAS THE FO AND THE PNF ON A FLT FROM ORD TO LGB. THE FLT WAS A REPOSITIONING FLT CONDUCTED UNDER PART 91. THE ACFT WAS EMPTY EXCEPT FOR CREW MEMBERS AND WAS LIGHT. AFTER LNDG ON RWY 30 AT LGB THE TWR CTLR INSTRUCTED US TO 'TURN L OR R ON TXWY K; YOUR DISCRETION; GND CTL ON 133.0.' BECAUSE WE WERE TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED TO PARK SOMEWHERE IN THE SW CORNER OF THE ARPT I RESPONDED 'WE WILL TURN L ON TXWY K; GND ON 133.0.' I SAW THAT THE CAPT WAS DRIFTING TOWARD TXWY K AND THE ACFT WAS DECELERATING NICELY TO EASILY MAKE THE TURNOFF AT TXWY K SO I LOOKED DOWN TO DIAL IN 133.0 IN THE STANDBY WINDOW OF THE #1 VHF COM RADIO. I FELT THE ACFT STOP DECELERATING AND LOOKED UP TO SEE US PASSING THE TXWY K EXIT OFF OF RWY 30. I DON'T KNOW WHY THE CAPT DECIDED NOT TO TURN ALTHOUGH THERE WAS SOME EVIDENCE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK LIKE SANDBAGS AND BARRICADES NEAR THE TXWY BUT THE TXWY ITSELF LOOKED CLR TO ME. I LOOKED DOWN AGAIN; THIS TIME TO LOOK ON THE ARPT DIAGRAM TO FIND THE NEXT SUITABLE EXIT OFF THE RWY WHEN I FELT THE ACFT TURNING TO THE L. I IMMEDIATELY LOOKED UP TO SEE THE ACFT TURNING L ONTO RWY 25R. I SAID 'THIS IS A RWY' ASSUMING (PERHAPS MISTAKENLY) THAT THE CAPT DIDN'T REALIZE HE WAS TURNING ONTO A RWY. WHEN HE CONTINUED TO TURN AND FAILED TO STOP; I IMMEDIATELY LOOKED OVER MY R SHOULDER TO ENSURE NO TFC WAS ON APCH TO RWY 25R OR WAS ACTUALLY ON RWY 25R. SEEING IT WAS CLR I RPTED THAT FACT TO HIM. HAD HE STOPPED AT THIS POINT HE WOULD HAVE FOULED RWY 25R AND POSSIBLY RWY 30 AS WELL. THE CAPT CONTINUED HIS L TURN ONTO RWY 25R AND IMMEDIATELY ONTO TXWY D. WHEN WE WERE CLR; I SWITCHED TO GND CTL WHO CLRED US TO TAXI SEBOUND ON TXWY D. THEY THEN GAVE US A LCL PHONE NUMBER TO CALL REGARDING A PLTDEV.