Posted on 11/23/2016 6:14:13 AM PST by C19fan
If these motorists thought setting off early would help them beat the Thanksgiving getaway rush, it appears a few others had the same idea.
ABC7 Eyewitness News captured incredible footage of what might just be the world’s worst car jam in southern California, bringing traffic to a crawl.
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Mexifornia is doomed in so many ways.
Someone shoukd start a doom pool.
“World’s worst” only if you have not been outside the continental United States.
The liberals need some of those BLM clowns to get in the way of traffic so that they can see what it’s like.
That said, I wouldn’t want them to slow down our conservative friends in California.
Silly. That’s what the Ventura Fwy looks like every weekday at 6 PM.
“12 hours to go from LV to LA”
That is like trying to get out of Houston when a hurricane is coming.
Ah yes, California, the holier than thou global warming nazis just sitting in their gas guzzlng cars on the feeway burning all that gas.
I pretty much knew without checking it would be the 405.
Yeap
Me too. I was awful. Fatal car accident in front of me, idiots throwing firecrackers out their window, an angry trucker threatening my daughter and me and topped off with thick smog. Never again will I go to LV for new years.
Thanksgiving traffic has long been bad all over. I once went down to Tampa from NC for an event over Thanksgiving, one of only two Thanksgivings that weren’t spent at home with family, and coming back I got stuck in endless traffic on the interstate in the middle of nowhere. Sat there for hours to the point of worrying about running out of gas. Should have flown, but I was young and didn’t really have the money, air fare was comparatively expensive at the time. This would have been about 1984. I recall unintentionally upsetting my hosts over the big college football game, I got excited about the “Hail Flutie” and shouldn’t have, lol.
Sounds like the adult version of bumper cars.
That’s a cool video. I rode that freeway for 20 years. Eventually I used a motorcycle and split traffic for 15 of those years, more willing to die as a bird than live as a turtle.
When I was working in Pacific Palisades and living in Torrance, my Friday evening commute was nearly 2 hours on occasion. Yuck!
It was taking 12 hours to go from LV to LA which is normally a 4 hour drive
Next Time take a 1hour detour to Searchlight and take I40 from Goffs, there will be NO TRAFFIC
“What used to take two hours now takes all day
It took me 16 hours to get to LA”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k
Those wide red and white stripes of headlights and tail lights are sort of pretty, and one of the more patriotic displays you’ll likely see out of modern day California, unintentional though it may well be.
Ah, how we love superlatives!
"Ignorance is bliss!" Add to your statement, "And if we have no knowledge of history."
Once long ago I was driving in LA (Pomona Fwy as I remember but could be wrong). It was 2:00 am on a Tuesday night and I was basically running through the desert. All of a sudden I ran into the worst traffic jam I have ever seen. Miles and miles of cars backed up. It was the dead of night on a week night! Several hours later when I reached the choke point of the jam, there was nothing there. Nothing at all. I am baffled to this day.
My cousin is a civil engineer with the NC DOT, he explained a few things about traffic flow to me, and one of the more memorable descriptions was the accordion effect. Traffic stalls, due to an accident, rubbernecking, debris in the road, just too many cars attempting to fill too few lanes or whatever, and the constant stop-start of traffic behind it gets magnified and radiates backwards, sometimes for many miles. It continues long after the obstruction of flow is removed. This is why you sometimes come to a dead stop in the middle of nowhere, and never even see the reason why. It was cleared hours before.
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