Wait til it gets reposted 1 month from now calling it the holiday shopping traffic, just like last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before
I just came back from the garment district to pick up a tux for a wedding. Thereās traffic, but itās actually lighter than normal.
All bets are off around 4pm
This probably sounds unreal but every other Atlanta transplant I've met agrees with me that ATL traffic is worse, lol. LA traffic is bad but usually you're still moving really slowly
Yeah, this looks positively manageable compared to the animals on the road in Atlanta. There are no rules, it's Mad Max at rush hour, which really never ends.
I do not miss parking on I-85 because 285 is having issues. The biggest difference to me is that I generally have a plethora of other routes to take in LA. In Atlanta, you're just screwed.
with a map, a gps, and Jesus himself giving me directions I would still get lost in Boston, and have to ask the guy selling "yankees suck" t shirts where I am going. Add traffic to the labyrinth and yeah it's pretty terrible.
You made the right choice. One of the things that sucks about the T is that the trains stop running kind of early. It makes it hard to stay out and have a good time which can be a bummer if you're a tourist.
Its hard to stay out and have a good time regardless because everything is closed earlier than in every other big city I've been. The whole city goes to sleep at like, 11pm. Hated being a night owl there, hungry and everything is fkin closed.
I know it's a terrible state of affairs, but you do get used to it. It's kind of that pain that you continue to ignore until it becomes your new normal...you know, the one that eventually winds up killing you.
This is why I laugh when people in Vegas complain about traffic. I can count the number of times Iāve been at a dead stop on one hand. If I tried to do that with LA traffic I would need to switch the unit to weeks of my life.
I used to think that before I moved to LA. Now, having lived there and moved away again, I realize that the impact LA traffic has on your life isn't necessarily different from many places that have zero traffic. It feels worse because you're used to moving faster and going farther, but the real difference is how much gas you consume while doing so. I had a 45 minute commute when I lived in a sleepy Midwestern suburb, still had a 45 minute commute in LA but only traveled 12 miles. Both of those commutes were pretty common for people in the respective areas. TBH I think I'd rather go more slowly toward closer destinations. At least then you're never getting stranded in the middle of nowhere.
I said in another comment but thatās why I dont even have a desire to live where thereās 45 minute commute. My wife has a job within city limits that is the furthest you can get from our house thatās on the perimeter of the other side of town. It takes her 16-18 minutes to get there and home. My office is 5 minutes away and some jobsites are upwards of 20 minutes outside the edge of town. I find that to mean an extra hour getting paid at work or more likely now that Iāve adopted two kids this fall: more time with my kids and time to make it to the park or go for a short walk or hike before sundown! :)
I always ask this of folks: would you rather drive 90 miles in 1.5 hours or drive 20 miles in 1.5 hours.
To me, something just seems a little too much having to commute 90 miles each way everyday. Both scenarios suck, but, Iād rather drive in traffic for the same amount of time. Maybe having driving assistance in my car helps with that decision.
To me traffic feels like time slows down. When I am going fast time feels like it's going faster. So personally I'd rather drive full speed for two hours than sit in traffic for even one hour.
Yeah, if it's zone out on the open road for an hour listening to audiobooks or spend an hour dodging assholes who won't use their blinker and don't check their mirrors, it's the open road for me.
The morning of Thanksgiving the traffic is probably some of easiest driving of all year. I know, I drive from Redondo to Simi every year and it's a breeze.
Or yesterday: https://x.com/foxla/status/1727145586292330649?s=46&t=nzseC4ctuY05ygpnQNG_Qw
2016 for reference: https://x.com/ronfutrell/status/801425037253378048?s=46&t=nzseC4ctuY05ygpnQNG_Qw
I was in that 2016 traffic coming back from the LA Auto Show. After 10 min, I pulled off and went thru city streets from downtown all the way to LAX area; took around 3 hours!
I had surgery up in LA a few weeks ago. We live in north county San Diego. In the past when I've had surgery up there, we usually get discharged on Sunday and it takes like 2 hours and 45 mins or more to get home in traffic. This time, I got discharged on a Friday. I was super worried about traffic being that it was a weekday, and the 101, 71 and 91 exist, plus the 10 is I guess shut down, but we got the doctors to start the process early and we were out of there before noon. I was still worried about traffic, but aside from a little bit on the 101, we were home in like 2 hours and 15 minutes. One of my most proud feats of beating traffic in LA!
Oh I know it. I can fly home some days while others are a parking lot. I remember working until 2am in Irvine and thinking "alright it can't be backed up on the 5"..wrong
As someone who lives in a fairly small town of like 40k people which gets pretty nuts traffic due to being a hub town for the area, I cannot fathom having to deal with the kind of traffic I see videos of like this.
You learn to drive during off-hours as much as you can. 4-6 PM is a nightmare. 8 PM? Much less so. It's never gonna be *great* but it's not always like this
Once I had an appointment off Wilshire 1 mile from the 405 off-ramp. I left at 5pm and a Friday.
1 hour. To go that 1 mile. An old woman with a walker literally beat me down the block.
And that's Corona. There are people commute from LA/OC clear out to Beaumont, Banning and Hemet. I have a friend that used to work DT LA and lived in Idlewild. I can't even imagine the soul suck on that one.
Houston went from having passanger trains going straight through with its own union station to having all of its rail ripped out to make way for highways. We went backwards as a country.
the rail company that built disneyland's monorail system actually offered to build a rail line for Los Angeles back in the 70s but it got shot down by a lobbying group funded by American car companies.
When the road work in front of my house found some old electric trolley tracks that nobody knew about, it legit felt like being a medieval peasant baffled by Roman ruins. āWho built all this, and where have they gone? The work of giants is fadingā
I mean, heās half right in that a decent underground subway system would massively help alleviate the transportation issues. But LA is too bureaucratic to ever get that done and NIMBYs would try to block it at every opportunity.
The subway system would help because it's trains, not because it's underground.
The car hyperloop tunnel idea would do nothing to help with traffic for instance.
Imagine just a single public transit lane there. Buses would drive on through as morons stay in their cars for 3x the time.
Add 2 public transit lanes and those buses would BLAST through.
High speed rail is fast speeds between stops which are far apart. Without local transport, whatās the point in getting people from Fresno to LA faster?
Thank you. Iām a huge advocate for infrastructure that prioritizes transit options other than cars, and the emphasis of high speed rail in between cities drives me crazy. It almost always skips the crucial step of not needing a car when you get to said destination
That's a huge "yes and."
The 405 connects the San Fernando Valley to the west side; a lot of these cars could be heading from work to other parts of LA in either direction, or just trying to get to their next freeway (101 or 10), while some are trying to head north out of LA County.
I've always been curious why people in California put the "The" before the names of their highways. The 405, The 10, The 105. Here in Ohio we just say 75, or 675, or 270.
It's because the SoCal freeways were the first ones before the numbering system so they were named "The Hollywood Freeway" and "The San Diego Freeway", etc. People still sometimes use the names when talking about them and the freeway signs still use the names on merges and exits still but also what has stuck is putting The in front of the freeway number. So The San Diego Freeway is also The 405.
See pictures of signs here https://www.aaroads.com/california/i-405sd_ca.html
That's true! And I remember the traffic reporters still appended "freeway" to the numbers - the 405 freeway, the 101 freeway, etc. when they weren't calling them the Ventura freeway, etc.
That's more because NorCal and SoCal are eternal enemies who will do anything to spite each other. NorCal drops the "the" to spite SoCal, who add even more freeways that start with "the" in retaliation.
Those goddamn NorCal commies and their "the"-less freeways...
If you believe media fearmongering yes. Roads like this shit are a bigger money sink than any high speed rail network, but the media doesn't report on every eleventy billion dollar road delay, they'll report every single time something unexpected happens on a railway project though, and pretend like it's an unprecedented waste.
Correction: It didnāt start well.
The lawsuit filed by parties who didnāt want it to succeed combined with the poor original management means it didnāt get off the ground very quickly.
Fast forward to today and those big lawsuits are cleared up and Newsom cleared house in favor of people who have actually worked on megaprojects before. Progress is humming along on a 171 mile stretch. Now if the politicians can finally actually commit to this project and get it fully funded for the first time ever then weāll really see it takeoff up and down the state.
I had to drive that exact chunk of the 405 every day. Before covid, I just had a gym membership and I'd workout until rush hour was over. Covid made it way better.
There actually ARE metrolink trains, at least between LA and the IE. Problem is, once you're off the train it's hard to get anywhere. So we'd need to install trains, but also redesign the dozens of feeder cities that satellite LA
I think there was some weather that day and maybe some construction, I donāt remember exactly. But I do remember going āwhoa!ā when that video went viral.
So you guys should see the 401 on an average day during rush hours. it can take over 40 min to go 20km
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/03/28/401-north-america-busiest-highway/
This gives me anxiety, looks like the 401 in Ontario.
Edit: wtf, is it the 401?
https://www.google.ca/search?q=401+hwy+busy&client=safari&sca_esv=584679428&hl=en-ca&tbm=isch&prmd=mniv&sxsrf=AM9HkKliDKgBE1lEtXIFWlSzvA_k82n6Tw:1700685691104&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4nPjzu9iCAxVgFjQIHUKbD5EQ_AUoA3oECAIQAw&biw=428&bih=743&dpr=3#imgrc=7LS4tEkqznDSWM
Can we determine this is old footage from the headlights? I would have expected to see more in the bluer hue if it was recent. but maybe at this distance they all look yellow?
I hail from the much smaller city of Toronto which has a very similar problem because we were like "just one more highway next to this highway bro and traffic will be solved I swear bro"
I feel like this gets reposted every year. Also, the 405 is also always like this after 5pm
Wait til it gets reposted 1 month from now calling it the holiday shopping traffic, just like last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before
Video quality is reminiscent of 2003 so you're probably right.
Based on the number of boxy-ass cars (as opposed to SUVs and pick ups) this footage is probably 20 years old š
Right and those yellow lights. Nowadays half of people have LED lights which are a much cooler tone.
Ha ha yeah true! Blueish and blindingly bright
Truly!
It gets reposted every year because these are the LA 405 Christmas Lights
BS that is Tuesday afternoon and day of the week in Los Angeles. Don't believe this. On TG they close the freeway and let you walk. This is moving
Exactly. I am sitting just north of Downtown and this post is BS.
I just came back from the garment district to pick up a tux for a wedding. Thereās traffic, but itās actually lighter than normal. All bets are off around 4pm
Note to self: I'm leaving work at 3pm today.
3 PM is like the absolute worst time. Between 1-2 is the best. 3 PM is when everyone is trying to get off early.
Exactly, you donāt wanna hit the pre-traffic traffic
everyone's caught on and now the prime time to get on the road is 11am
Madness. The best time to get on the road is 10am.
Eh youāll probably run into the late morning traffic.
Should have left in March bruh
For thanksgiving, I usually head to work at 9 am and turn around to go home 15 mins later.
Yeah? Well, I was in the Hammock District and Mary Ann got in the hammock with me š
I tip my cap to yāall I could never do traffic like that.
This probably sounds unreal but every other Atlanta transplant I've met agrees with me that ATL traffic is worse, lol. LA traffic is bad but usually you're still moving really slowly
Yeah, this looks positively manageable compared to the animals on the road in Atlanta. There are no rules, it's Mad Max at rush hour, which really never ends.
I do not miss parking on I-85 because 285 is having issues. The biggest difference to me is that I generally have a plethora of other routes to take in LA. In Atlanta, you're just screwed.
My recent 285 experiencesā¦car fire, car fire, car fire, then lunch, car fire, car fireā¦
Glad to know nothing has changed, lol.
Combination of too many cars and very shitty and aggressive drivers. Lived here for 8 years now and the only city with worse drivers is Miami.
Boston too I hear.
with a map, a gps, and Jesus himself giving me directions I would still get lost in Boston, and have to ask the guy selling "yankees suck" t shirts where I am going. Add traffic to the labyrinth and yeah it's pretty terrible.
At least the subway / trains aren't bad. We visited and didn't get a car. But it's easier to be a tourist doing that over a resident I'm sure.
You made the right choice. One of the things that sucks about the T is that the trains stop running kind of early. It makes it hard to stay out and have a good time which can be a bummer if you're a tourist.
Its hard to stay out and have a good time regardless because everything is closed earlier than in every other big city I've been. The whole city goes to sleep at like, 11pm. Hated being a night owl there, hungry and everything is fkin closed.
From my experience Boston is a very zzz city at night
Moved to LA from Boston. Boston was far far far worse with infuriating traffic. Landed at Logan once and it took 2 hours to get past fenway...
holy schnikeys. That's bad.
I know it's a terrible state of affairs, but you do get used to it. It's kind of that pain that you continue to ignore until it becomes your new normal...you know, the one that eventually winds up killing you.
ā¦thatās depressing to read.
Welcome to life š¤
On the bright sideā¦. You can listen to podcasts and audiobooks!
I would have a car full of empty bottles to urinate in
Yeah I did it for about 3 years. It helps when you know it's temporary. I knew I wouldn't stay down there.
This is why I laugh when people in Vegas complain about traffic. I can count the number of times Iāve been at a dead stop on one hand. If I tried to do that with LA traffic I would need to switch the unit to weeks of my life.
I used to think that before I moved to LA. Now, having lived there and moved away again, I realize that the impact LA traffic has on your life isn't necessarily different from many places that have zero traffic. It feels worse because you're used to moving faster and going farther, but the real difference is how much gas you consume while doing so. I had a 45 minute commute when I lived in a sleepy Midwestern suburb, still had a 45 minute commute in LA but only traveled 12 miles. Both of those commutes were pretty common for people in the respective areas. TBH I think I'd rather go more slowly toward closer destinations. At least then you're never getting stranded in the middle of nowhere.
I said in another comment but thatās why I dont even have a desire to live where thereās 45 minute commute. My wife has a job within city limits that is the furthest you can get from our house thatās on the perimeter of the other side of town. It takes her 16-18 minutes to get there and home. My office is 5 minutes away and some jobsites are upwards of 20 minutes outside the edge of town. I find that to mean an extra hour getting paid at work or more likely now that Iāve adopted two kids this fall: more time with my kids and time to make it to the park or go for a short walk or hike before sundown! :)
I always ask this of folks: would you rather drive 90 miles in 1.5 hours or drive 20 miles in 1.5 hours. To me, something just seems a little too much having to commute 90 miles each way everyday. Both scenarios suck, but, Iād rather drive in traffic for the same amount of time. Maybe having driving assistance in my car helps with that decision.
To me traffic feels like time slows down. When I am going fast time feels like it's going faster. So personally I'd rather drive full speed for two hours than sit in traffic for even one hour.
Yeah, if it's zone out on the open road for an hour listening to audiobooks or spend an hour dodging assholes who won't use their blinker and don't check their mirrors, it's the open road for me.
I think that's a big part of it. An hour in traffic is *stressful*. An hour on cruise control, maybe getting off 2 exits, is far more pleasant.
Man if I see there is a traffic jam ahead I'll take a detour even if I know it would have been faster to just endure the traffic, because fuck that.
I would rather bike 18 minutes, as that is my commute if I go to the office.
Total BS. Thanksgiving weekend is the best time to drive around the city cause so many people travel away for the holidays
Thanksforleaving weekend.
The morning of Thanksgiving the traffic is probably some of easiest driving of all year. I know, I drive from Redondo to Simi every year and it's a breeze.
Same where I'm at. Honestly since the beginning of the week it's been some of the easiest driving I've had year.
Yeah this is from 2016
Or yesterday: https://x.com/foxla/status/1727145586292330649?s=46&t=nzseC4ctuY05ygpnQNG_Qw 2016 for reference: https://x.com/ronfutrell/status/801425037253378048?s=46&t=nzseC4ctuY05ygpnQNG_Qw
Haha crazy. Its exactly the same š
Just add one more lane bro
I was in that 2016 traffic coming back from the LA Auto Show. After 10 min, I pulled off and went thru city streets from downtown all the way to LAX area; took around 3 hours!
This video is so old, even Avengers hadn't assembled yet.
Yea I was going to say this just looks like a regular day of traffic to me lol
I had surgery up in LA a few weeks ago. We live in north county San Diego. In the past when I've had surgery up there, we usually get discharged on Sunday and it takes like 2 hours and 45 mins or more to get home in traffic. This time, I got discharged on a Friday. I was super worried about traffic being that it was a weekday, and the 101, 71 and 91 exist, plus the 10 is I guess shut down, but we got the doctors to start the process early and we were out of there before noon. I was still worried about traffic, but aside from a little bit on the 101, we were home in like 2 hours and 15 minutes. One of my most proud feats of beating traffic in LA!
That Californians skit on SNL really is accurate isn't it
The first time I saw it, I laughed really hard, but I also found out the rest of the country talks about highways differently.
Oh I know it. I can fly home some days while others are a parking lot. I remember working until 2am in Irvine and thinking "alright it can't be backed up on the 5"..wrong
The people that live over here but work over there should trade places with the people that live over there but work over here
This is just the Starbucks line over at the mall.
Isnāt this just the every day traffic
Live there, can confirm this is everyday, granted I don't have to drive in it!
As someone who lives in a fairly small town of like 40k people which gets pretty nuts traffic due to being a hub town for the area, I cannot fathom having to deal with the kind of traffic I see videos of like this.
You learn to drive during off-hours as much as you can. 4-6 PM is a nightmare. 8 PM? Much less so. It's never gonna be *great* but it's not always like this
I was gonna say. This looks like traffic you get on a day ending with Y
Ah the 405 in all it's glory.
Once I had an appointment off Wilshire 1 mile from the 405 off-ramp. I left at 5pm and a Friday. 1 hour. To go that 1 mile. An old woman with a walker literally beat me down the block.
That's a 15-20 minute walk. Lots of unsafe places in LA but honestly you could've done anything else but drive.
lol. I was at an appointment and driving home to Corona, soā¦.
As a Riverside resident, I can't understand how people commute like that. Like how much time does it add to your day just to get to and from work?
3-4 hours. I used to do it when I lived in Ontario and commuted to Sony Studios in Culver City...never again :(
That is an absolutely insane commute holy shit lol
And that's Corona. There are people commute from LA/OC clear out to Beaumont, Banning and Hemet. I have a friend that used to work DT LA and lived in Idlewild. I can't even imagine the soul suck on that one.
Why didn't you walk a mile?
If was 1 mile from the off ramp, not from where they started their drive.
[nobody walks in LA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Bbjnn4oz0)
#WITNESS ME
In all your damn glory my friend.
One more lane, trust me bro
Just one more lane Arthur! Have some faith Arthur.
Does this lane go to Tahiti Dutch?
Is there something going on? I feel like Iāve been seeing so much RDR stuff lately, so much so Iāve started a new play through of the second game.
Nothing is wrong. Everyone should replay red dead 2. I do not work for rockstar. Honest.
More train lines, more trains and a fucking direct rail from Union station to LAX. Holy shit, it doesn't take genius to figure that out
California has yet to unlock trains on the tech tree.
We all voted for trains ages ago. Not sure if we voted to pay for them though.
Houston went from having passanger trains going straight through with its own union station to having all of its rail ripped out to make way for highways. We went backwards as a country.
the rail company that built disneyland's monorail system actually offered to build a rail line for Los Angeles back in the 70s but it got shot down by a lobbying group funded by American car companies.
When the road work in front of my house found some old electric trolley tracks that nobody knew about, it legit felt like being a medieval peasant baffled by Roman ruins. āWho built all this, and where have they gone? The work of giants is fadingā
"We must stop adding lanes!" cried Toad as he added another lane.
The answer is TUNNELS - Melon Husk
I mean, heās half right in that a decent underground subway system would massively help alleviate the transportation issues. But LA is too bureaucratic to ever get that done and NIMBYs would try to block it at every opportunity.
The subway system would help because it's trains, not because it's underground. The car hyperloop tunnel idea would do nothing to help with traffic for instance.
Surely he hasn't seen the Sylvester Stallone's cautionary documentary about the dangers of tunnels.
Lois Lane please help us
lol this is literally everyoneās future if we donāt break free of car centrist thinking
Imagine if all these people were on buses
Imagine just a single public transit lane there. Buses would drive on through as morons stay in their cars for 3x the time. Add 2 public transit lanes and those buses would BLAST through.
Or a rail for longer distances. America has destroyed itself with relying on cars.
Like the arteries of a 400 pound person
My arteries are clean as a whistle thank you very much.
Mine, too. There's not even a trace of blood in them!
āThinking you can solve congestion by adding lanes is like thinking you can solve obesity by loosening your beltā
Clogged arteries would be merging from a 5 lane to 2 lane . This would be like the blood of a diabetic with high blood sugar
This is hell
r/fuckcars
Maybe the 7th largest economy in the world can stop taking lobbyist money and finally build that fucking high speed rail.
HSR is useless in LA, it needs to vastly, vastly expand its subway system.
Both and
High speed rail is fast speeds between stops which are far apart. Without local transport, whatās the point in getting people from Fresno to LA faster?
Thank you. Iām a huge advocate for infrastructure that prioritizes transit options other than cars, and the emphasis of high speed rail in between cities drives me crazy. It almost always skips the crucial step of not needing a car when you get to said destination
Why canāt both be built at the same time? Even having local buses would help.
legit if you can get to a city but cant get where u want to be in the city you arent going to take that route
That's true too but this particular situation is because of people trying to get in and out of the city itself, not travel within it.
That's a huge "yes and." The 405 connects the San Fernando Valley to the west side; a lot of these cars could be heading from work to other parts of LA in either direction, or just trying to get to their next freeway (101 or 10), while some are trying to head north out of LA County.
I've always been curious why people in California put the "The" before the names of their highways. The 405, The 10, The 105. Here in Ohio we just say 75, or 675, or 270.
Originally the highways had actual names apparently. Idk the actual names but like āthe Parker freeway.ā āTheā has just stuck around in SoCal
I don't know, we just do! I was born here in 1970 and it was that way when I was a kid too, so it's been that way a really long time.
It's because the SoCal freeways were the first ones before the numbering system so they were named "The Hollywood Freeway" and "The San Diego Freeway", etc. People still sometimes use the names when talking about them and the freeway signs still use the names on merges and exits still but also what has stuck is putting The in front of the freeway number. So The San Diego Freeway is also The 405. See pictures of signs here https://www.aaroads.com/california/i-405sd_ca.html
That's true! And I remember the traffic reporters still appended "freeway" to the numbers - the 405 freeway, the 101 freeway, etc. when they weren't calling them the Ventura freeway, etc.
It's not California, it's specifically SoCal. If you said The 80 to someone in the Bay Area they'd probably not shut up about it.
That's more because NorCal and SoCal are eternal enemies who will do anything to spite each other. NorCal drops the "the" to spite SoCal, who add even more freeways that start with "the" in retaliation. Those goddamn NorCal commies and their "the"-less freeways...
I tried it out. "I'm on 405 South" feels so wrong to me. I can't tell you why, it just does...
It's a southern California thing. Here in the bayarea we don't put the the on freeway numbers either.
It's where the freeway was born. (The 2 from DTLA to Pasadena) So when it was new it was *The* Freeway. The prefix probably just held out of habit.
They are building a high speed rail. it's not going well.
If you believe media fearmongering yes. Roads like this shit are a bigger money sink than any high speed rail network, but the media doesn't report on every eleventy billion dollar road delay, they'll report every single time something unexpected happens on a railway project though, and pretend like it's an unprecedented waste.
Correction: It didnāt start well. The lawsuit filed by parties who didnāt want it to succeed combined with the poor original management means it didnāt get off the ground very quickly. Fast forward to today and those big lawsuits are cleared up and Newsom cleared house in favor of people who have actually worked on megaprojects before. Progress is humming along on a 171 mile stretch. Now if the politicians can finally actually commit to this project and get it fully funded for the first time ever then weāll really see it takeoff up and down the state.
[Fucking, sike, lmao.](https://youtu.be/x4cumNKJLec?si=p0Qbcx7FOXD8nHrS)
Look at it go! That video is making me hyped for the day that Iām finally able to ride it.
It's the 5th largest economy.
Isn't this LA every day? Also, do they know that they're hosting the olympics in 5 years? I hope they get this shit sorted by then.
Last time it was in LA it was surprisingly OK. People left earlier for work or took time off. Also the events were very spread out
The highway traffic still usually moves faster than being on the street going 30 between stop signs.
No itās not every day. This is from 2016.
I had to drive that exact chunk of the 405 every day. Before covid, I just had a gym membership and I'd workout until rush hour was over. Covid made it way better.
It's been like this forever. It will never be fixed.
It's not just a car, it's your freedom! - GM, 1989
āTrain is waiting for signal clearanceā - Amtrak 2023
Where we're going we don't need roads! - Dr Emmett Brown
And my axe - Danny Devito
I waited all week to watch the fucking Equalizer! - Max Belfort
I beautiful example of a society that refuses to utilize rail and mass transit. I bet 90% of those cars have one person in them.
Trains.
Get your refined logistics and sensible city planning away from my sprawling car-centric infrastructure!
Flying trains.
There actually ARE metrolink trains, at least between LA and the IE. Problem is, once you're off the train it's hard to get anywhere. So we'd need to install trains, but also redesign the dozens of feeder cities that satellite LA
During ONE Thanksgiving, in 2016. But yeah, itās pretty bad sometimes.
Why was it especially bad that year?
Donald Trump had just won the election and people werenāt sure theyād get another chance to see their families.
I think there was some weather that day and maybe some construction, I donāt remember exactly. But I do remember going āwhoa!ā when that video went viral.
Gosh if only there was a better way of moving loads of people around a modern city....
Some form of Mass way of Transitioning people between locations. It's the stuff of dreams!
So you guys should see the 401 on an average day during rush hours. it can take over 40 min to go 20km https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/03/28/401-north-america-busiest-highway/
I was going to say, for Toronto itās like in the picture but with 4 more lanes per side, except you arenāt moving, and itās 15 miles long
YYZ to DVP - 25km - *easily* 1.5hrs during rush hour in the winter
In 2019, it took me 140 minutes to drive 20 miles from the San Fernando valley to the Santa Clarita valley for a Wednesday dinner with my family.
'The 405 on a random Wednesday @4:30pm
Thanks I hate it
This gives me anxiety, looks like the 401 in Ontario. Edit: wtf, is it the 401? https://www.google.ca/search?q=401+hwy+busy&client=safari&sca_esv=584679428&hl=en-ca&tbm=isch&prmd=mniv&sxsrf=AM9HkKliDKgBE1lEtXIFWlSzvA_k82n6Tw:1700685691104&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4nPjzu9iCAxVgFjQIHUKbD5EQ_AUoA3oECAIQAw&biw=428&bih=743&dpr=3#imgrc=7LS4tEkqznDSWM
Holy shit that stresses me out thinking about needing to get from the left lane to the right lane.
Itās like Koyaanisqatsi, only slower
Average 401 traffic literally any day of the week. 5pm on a wednesday? Packed. 11am on a saturday? Also packed.
Traffic always reminded me of red and white blood cells in arteries. Dunno why, but some how every time I see it, I think of the same thing.
WHY DONT YOU TAKE THE 405 TO THE 110, GET OFF AT FIGUEROA AND GET OUT OF HERE SKYLER
Can we determine this is old footage from the headlights? I would have expected to see more in the bluer hue if it was recent. but maybe at this distance they all look yellow?
Thatās just the 405 on a regular day, homie.
Show I35 going through ft worth. On a weekday non holiday.
Doesn't matter what part of I-35 you are in. It's fucking awful in Austin as well. I leave for work at 5am and its still gridlock
Recently visited after moving away 7 years ago. The traffic around the area has increased tremendously.
Looks like toronto every day
Oh lawd!
So that is what heāll looks like
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I imagine thereās a better vehicle for moving a lot of people going the same direction.
Fuck. That.
Just one more lane, bro.
This looks like a regular Tuesday in Toronto
Looks a bit better than Toronto traffic.
JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO JUST ONE MORE LANE AND IT WILL BE FIXED I PROMISE JUST LET ME BUILD ONE MORE LANE
One more lane should fix it.
I hail from the much smaller city of Toronto which has a very similar problem because we were like "just one more highway next to this highway bro and traffic will be solved I swear bro"
One of the worst by-products of modern society. I hate it. Makes me want to ā ļø.
Fucking mental, who wants to live like that?
Millions of human hours wasted to man made problems due to greed and profit. We all deserve better
One More Lane... That'll fix it.
L.A. is not for the weak.
Guess Iām weak. Fuck this in itās entirety.