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I will never forget that freaking day when W Bush came to LA to have a fundraiser somewhere on the Westside
It was announced they will close several FWY on-ramps on the 405 north because of his motorcade, the office were I worked at the time is located in Pacific Palisades and we were let go 3 hrs earlier, at 2 PM instead of 5 PM
I got home in the Pasadena area untill 8:30 PM!!! It was just a nightmare!!
Being stuck in traffic for 5 hours for a 20 mile stretch! the streets on the Westside literally became giant a parking lot!
And at the end when I got home and turn on the news they said that
the president had changed his plans, instead of moving on a mortocade he took a helicopter! It was just a day of madness.
Has anyone ever been stuck in traffic for 5 hours in NY for something like this?
Well the bigger the city the more the traffic. Horrible traffic is synonymous with big cities, not just big cities but gigantic cities which both LA and NY are. Throw in Chicago, DC, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Dallas, Boston, Philly, and SF for worst traffic in the U.S. and you have the largest cities with the worst traffic IMO
Los Angeles Harbor Fwy/CA-110 from I-10/Santa Monica Fwy to Stadium Way/Exit 24C Los Angeles Harbor Fwy/I-110 from 111th Pl. to I-110/I-10/Santa Monica Fwy Los Angeles San Diego Fwy/I-405 from I-105/Imperial Hwy. to Getty Center Dr.
New York Van Wyck Expy/I-678 from Belt Pkwy./Exit 1 to Main St./Exit 8 Los Angeles San Gabriel River Fwy/I-605 from Beverly Blvd. to Florence Ave. Los Angeles Santa Monica Fwy/I-10 from CA-1/Lincoln Blvd./Exit 1B to Alameda St. Los Angeles Santa Monica Fwy/I-10 from I-5/Golden State Fwy. to National Blvd.
San Francisco I-80 from (James Lick Fwy/Bay Brdg) US-101 to Treasure Island Rd.
San Francisco Grove Shafter Fwy/CA-24 from Saint Stephens Dr. to Caldecott Tunnel Los Angeles I-110 from W Vernon Ave. to 51st St.
There are really bad stretches in NYC (in my experience getting from JFK to Manhattan is awful, as are most of the bridge/tunnel approaches to Manhattan), but for sheer breadth of freeway congestion L.A. has a very deserved reputation for being terrible.
And I don't think it's something any city wants to "win".
You can avoid traffic in LA and even when you hit it, traffic moves. NYC and the metro around it is brutal even if you do have options to driving.
You can drive all around LA and the suburbs with no problems for the most part. A car metro NYC is a huge anchor that will keep you from getting anything productive done.
Not nearly as many people drive per capita in NY. The thing that makes NYC traffic so bad at times it that the city is a series of islands connected by bridges and tunnels, and so there are all these bottlenecks at the entrances and approaches to them that can really snarl up traffic all over. If it wasnt for this condition, I don't think traffic would be all that bad at all.
You can avoid traffic in LA and even when you hit it, traffic moves. NYC and the metro around it is brutal even if you do have options to driving.
You can drive all around LA and the suburbs with no problems for the most part. A car metro NYC is a huge anchor that will keep you from getting anything productive done.
What? You obviously have never commuted in LA. I thank the lord every day that I don't have to drive in this city. I think it is the worst thing about it, and yes, street traffic can be just as hellacious as the freeways.
You can avoid traffic in LA and even when you hit it, traffic moves. NYC and the metro around it is brutal even if you do have options to driving.
You can drive all around LA and the suburbs with no problems for the most part. A car metro NYC is a huge anchor that will keep you from getting anything productive done.
It sounds like you have never driven in L.A. for any extended period of time.
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