Shittiest Intersections of LA Debate
Enough with the technical and serious stuff. Lets have some fun this Friday. Our friends over at LosanJealous compiled a list of shittiest intersections in LA. Here's there disclaimer:Disclaimer: This is not a list of the busiest intersections, merely the shittiest. By no means a comprehensive list, it is nevertheless a starting point.
Look at them. There they sit. They serve us patiently albeit dangerously. Essentially they serve us while making no sense all day, every day. Every time you think you’ve got the grid nailed, one of them pops up out of nowhere and fucks you right the hell up, but proper. Please vote on your shittiest. Or add your own. Go on, let it out.His submissions include the Beverly/Temple/Virgil/Silverlak
LA Voice joins in adding the southbound 101/110 downtown merge, the LaBrea on/off merge on the eastbound 10, and the 5-south ramp onto the 110 south, and the 110-north-to 101-west ramp
Posted by Anonymous @ 12/02/2005 07:20:00 AM
21 Comments:
What city in the U.S. has dealt with traffic wisely?
It's a lose lose battle.
There are five major freeways in East L.A. and no mention of any shitty intersections here! I guess we've been blessed with exceptional civil engineers. Ha, ha.
Add these Eastside ones to the list.
10 West to the 5 North. The backup starts two miles away while the rest of the 10 zooms by at 70 mph.
The famous East L.A. Interchange - no matter which way you are going it's always one freeway going into 3, and there is a four lane change over every five minutes or so - fun to watch from the bridges, there are no movie theaters in Boyle Heights, so this live theater substitutes handsomely.
The 5 north to the 710 south. Guess what, you have to exit the freeway, travel through severeal East L.A. streets then get back on the freeway, who's the genius that thought this up.
And finally, the 5 south to the 710 south. Do you know that the average lane size here falls below 8 feet-one is possibly 7 feet wide, way below Caltrans guidelines. Next time your in an accident here, I know an attorney that will take your case.
Just a little tour of the eastside. Come visit us, if you stay on the freeways, you stand a chance of making it back.
1st and Gafffey in San Pedro. It is absolutely horrible. So what did they do? Posted a traffic officer at 9th and Gaffey. Brilliant!
Why do I drive to Pasadena in traffic for a damn book?
No local bookstores in City Terrace, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Highland Park, list goes on...
I'm talking about Barnes & Noble...
WE TOO POOR
WE NO HAVE MONEY
WE NO READ
NO BOOKSTORE FOR WE
What is the difference?
Democrat
Conservative Democrat
Moderate Democrat
Progressive Democrat
Liberal Democrat
Extreme Left Democrat
Pol Sci professor won't discuss this, why?
Any examples?
Sincerely Mr. Confundido y Jodido
They're all future Republicans.
A Democrat is a follower: someone who followed daddy or mommy or the cool crowd at school to register as a Democrat. funny thing is they won't follow them to the polls on election day.
A Conserative Democrat is usually a southern white man at heart someone -no matter where they live- longing for the antebellum years. You know it was the Democrats who started the civil war.
A Moderate Democrat is a middle of the roader. And as former Texas Agricultural Secretary Hightower once said, "the only thing in the middle of the road are dead armadillos and yellow stripes." Take your pick, as for John Kerry, I'm still trying to figuure out if he's a dead aramdillo.
Progressive Democrat is usually a guilt riddent, trust fund baby who knows they have to do something to help, but don't exactly know how to do it and those poor Mexicans and Blacks must continue to suffer. Somehow this categorization is always disproportionately Jewish. Parke Skletom comes to mind.
A Liberal Democrat is an older version of a progressive democrat, just with more guilt because there wealth has increased exponentially over the years. And this increase has usually taken the form of rental income from these same poor Mexicans and Blacks. Eli Broad anyone?
An Extreme Left Democract usually started out as some young Black or Chicano college student, full of rage and utterly confused. But they were in it for "the cause" until the end. Nobody was going to accuse them of not being proud of their race. Plus this is were all those radical sisters hung out, no bras, no curfew, no parents - only the pill. Then reality set in that they would actually have to wear a suit and master all the lies to cover up this empty suit. Antonio Villaraigos comes to mind.
Does this help you Confundido & Perdido. Just jump ship and let's start our own party!
8:38
1st and Gaffey is bad. And let's add just about any intersection or stretch of sinkhole-ridden Western Ave in San Pedro/RPV.
C'mon. Wilshire and Santa Monica takes ten light sequences to cross. That's Seoul-level congestion.
Lots of San Pedro people here? We would love to have a Bukowski-esque, San Pedro-based blogger at Martini Republic.
I thought Hahn was going to fix all the shitty intersections. What a pathetic PR stunt that was. Almost as bad as "let's build a subway to the beach."
Absolutely WORST intersection in Northeast LA is Fletcher and San Fernando... OMG!!!!
Thanks a whole lot 9:19. You summed it up better than my professor.
He's afraid to touch this subject. Now I understand why. No longer confundido, pero si jodido y un poco perdido.
Gracias.
Blog on your new party philosophy, I'll jump ship. Not one of those democrats relate to my ideals.
Many other cities in the U.S. have dealt with traffic wisely.
Any city that doesn't build new developments before having the proper traffic infrastructure in place is doing well and that is ANYWHERE but L.A.
San Francisco is one right here in CA.
It's so easy to get around Washington DC.
NYC is extremely public transit friendly.
As you drive across the country, you go through miles of toll roads. Not one other state feels that they are "punishing poor people" who can't afford to use them. There are turnpikes across the northern U.S. and if you don't want to pay the money, then you can take the interstates or whatever route you wish. Only here is that idea so despised.
But here we just keep adding to the population, whereas in most other states they wouldn't build to accomodate them. They would allow them to just move on. They'll build more "affordable" housing, even though they aren't sure what that is. If the city can't identify what it is, how can they possible build the infrastructure for it?
And if they considered all of that, the mayor wouldn't feel the need to be so involved in the schools.
When you put in a housing development with hundreds of homes, if you have one bright bone in your body, you would know that those homes will be filled with children and moms in SUV's who will be driving around. But if you don't put any schools there and there is no plan for traffic, then you have several problems. The schools become overcrowded and don't do anybody any good and all of those moms are driving like maniacs through neighborhoods that aren't used to having any traffic and all of the working parents are fighting to get onto the nearest freeway on ramp.
Welcome to Los Angeles-not the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to development/traffic/infrastructure, etc.
Ok...I do love the change-over lanes on 4th street for the rush hour traffic but just watch when someone turns left when not supposed to...also love the intersections in Downtown that due to peds in the crosswalk, have one vehicle make it through the cue...and to the bus riders union: enough already...have you driven 5th street between broadway and figueroa during am and pm rush hour...its a bus parking lot...too many of them
Seriously, you all are in desperate need of a bicycle with blinking lights.
I rode downtown today in rush hour traffic, and it took me the same 15 minutes it always does.
I've done the westside and the eastside on bike during rush hour, and nothing feels better than rolling by people stuck in their cars going nowhere.
If you can swing it, it is bliss y'all.
3:06
I've always liked the D.C. Metro. Works pretty well.
And I'll add that merging onto the freeway from San Pedro is shitty. It's a constant game of avoiding/passing/merging with China Shipping tractor trailers, tandems, and chemical trucks.
Rosecrans and Aviation is an awful intersection too. It isn't in L.A. proper, but still a horrible intersection in the L.A. area.
Try Wilshire and Westwood Boulevard at rush hour.
It just don't get no worse than that.
2 south merge to the 5 north/south any morning. just terrible. back up always starts at the 134.
Here in Kentucky we have sever traffice problems. Cattle won't move out of the way.
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