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World’s worst traffic jam? Cars stuck in Thanksgiving getaway 'gridlock' [LA]
UK Telegraph ^ | November 23, 2016 | Mark Molloy

Posted on 11/23/2016 6:14:13 AM PST by C19fan

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To: Fresh Wind

Looks like a Katrina evacuation. What if........


21 posted on 11/23/2016 6:51:58 AM PST by wardamneagle (C)
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To: C19fan

Labor Day weekend Monday on I-10 coming back from Pensacola. According to CB, the traffic was at a standstill up all the way to Houston. We gave up and took Highway 90 in.


22 posted on 11/23/2016 6:52:41 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: corkoman

I remember some corny 70s movie about a massive traffic jam and cranes being used.


23 posted on 11/23/2016 6:53:27 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: boycott

My relatives would have the get together on Christmas eve and I would travel 42 miles down the 101 & 405 freeway. Traffic slow the time. 2 hours+. On Christmas day however the road is wide open. I could never convince them to have Christmas on Christmas day....


24 posted on 11/23/2016 6:59:14 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Enterprise

Hubby had 2 surgeries at UCLA this summer. Our appointments always seemed to coincide with going to work traffic or going home traffic. I hate the 405 anyway but sheesh! Yep this could be any day.


25 posted on 11/23/2016 7:04:41 AM PST by sheana
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yep...it’s all about time and mathematics


26 posted on 11/23/2016 7:06:51 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: corkoman

Every single day. I drive the 101 quite a bit and always try to time my trips where I don’t hit going to work or home traffic. Have been caught on it a few times then. My neighbor lives in Ventura and was working in Thousand Oaks. He used to get off work and go have dinner to just wait out the traffic. Same amount of time. lol


27 posted on 11/23/2016 7:07:01 AM PST by sheana
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To: minnesota_bound

I got stuck on the 405 one time when a CHiPs officer was killed on his motorcycle on the ramp between the 101 and 405. They closed the entire interchange in all directions. It took me 4 1/2 hours to get from LAX to Ventura.


28 posted on 11/23/2016 7:12:17 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: Da Coyote

This is exactly how the traffic looks daily in the capital city of Mexico!! So what do you expect when the majority of the Mexican population has made Calimexico their capital!!! Look at the states across the nation and those hardcore Mexican folk are creeping across this land...NV,CO, NM and soon to be invaded AZ...AND THERE AINT NOTHING that can be done...the majority have made anchor babies and can’t be moved! In less then 20 yrs this nation will be radically changed for the worse! Without patriotism there is no country! They don’t want to assimilated because they truly believe this nation was stolen from them..and the colleges are promoting that sinking idea as well!! That’s why you see them embolden without fear of being deported! WE ARE SO SCREWED!! AND honestly I don’t think President Trump can deported them without starting a revolt with consequences! Its too late for the law to be upheld. MY two cent worth from experience living in a heavily Hispanics populated border town!


29 posted on 11/23/2016 7:13:10 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: C19fan

If you want to keep an eye on LA! lol

https://www.sigalert.com/map.asp?lat=33.9587&lon=-118.0411&z=1


30 posted on 11/23/2016 7:14:32 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: RoseofTexas

You are right. I don’t think this would have been a traffic jam if you removed the third of them that are “motor-voters”.


31 posted on 11/23/2016 7:33:15 AM PST by 386wt
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To: C19fan

I would have just stayed in my hotel room and ordered room service.


32 posted on 11/23/2016 7:44:57 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through you're anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: C19fan

BTW, that 3 miles going South on the 101 from WEHO blows on any given Sunday.

I just take the side streets and call it a day.


33 posted on 11/23/2016 7:46:44 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through you're anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: C19fan
And the car lobby thinks that if we only expanded from six to ten lanes each way, or built another parallel freeway alongside, everything would be ok.

While we double the population every 50 years.

34 posted on 11/23/2016 7:56:59 AM PST by sphinx
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To: C19fan

At this time it is 12 mph on the 405 South at Getty Center.

According to Sigalert


35 posted on 11/23/2016 8:13:40 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: karnage

Yeah, that kind of looks like Bangkok every single afternoon. :)


36 posted on 11/23/2016 8:24:56 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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I always ask pro immigration people to give me a list of cities that desperately need more population and traffic. Which suburbs are in desperate need to be more sprawlier. Which small towns would be better off being big towns with new sprawly suburbs and traffic. The traffic which also causes global warming.


37 posted on 11/23/2016 9:07:43 AM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Or Bogota... or Nairobi...


38 posted on 11/23/2016 9:27:50 AM PST by karnage
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To: C19fan

Imagine the Apocalypse and LA people trying to escape......


39 posted on 11/23/2016 9:49:30 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

We spent a month+ being “driven” around southern India recently. LA is nothing re: weird traffic.


40 posted on 11/23/2016 9:54:37 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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