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We love getting comments here at LAist, especially when we can do a follow up. For Laurie of Crazy Aunt Purl (who gets an average of around 70-some comments per post), who commented this yesterday:
I just want the Mayor to try to get on the 101 at White Oak each morning for an entire week, and then we can talk about traffic light timing.
If you look at the above picture of the Operation Bottleneck Relief (OBR) study, you'll notice that the 101 and White Oak has a light green dot placed there. What does that mean? It means "Capitol and/or Operational Improvements Required." If you are curious about the light blue dot at Burbank and Sepulveda, it tells us that further studies are required. Forest Green tells us that it is resolved... whatever that means.
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“While we won’t fix the traffic problem with a single initiative, it’s important that we push the envelope and constantly work to find creative and innovative ways to use our resources to alleviate traffic."
Traffic Past and the Ghost of Traffic Yet To Come
This past year, we have seen the banning of construction during rush hour, deployed traffic officers at over 50 of Los Angeles’ most congested intersections, the repairing of potholes, synchronized traffic signals along the Ronald Reagan and 405/San Diego Freeway Corridors, and the Gridlock Tiger Team.
We can look forward to a comprehensive strategy to improve the flow of traffic, expanded bus service along the 405 Freeway Corridor, the “subway to the sea,” a complete the Downtown Connector, extended bus service to the San Gabriel Valley, improved highway safety, extended carpool lanes on the 405 Freeway and the abolition of freeway bottlenecks.
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I am starting to think that the British have the only solution to not only help fix traffic in a huge metropolitan city but also help the environment. Perhaps LA should institute a congestion charge just like they have done in Central London. Yes $8-10 is a lot of money to have the privelege to drive through the city each day but I think a lot more people would look to public transportation and carpooling than do now and it has been shown in London to have cut traffic congestion by as much as 30%. Maybe this would stop those Brentwood soccer moms from getting in their cars to drive the half of a mile to yoga or those two blocks to drop off their kids (well I should say stop the maids and nannies from dropping the kids off) I have friends who work downtown who don't deal with half of the traffic problems I have to contend with on the westside. On average from my office building at the corner of Federal and Wilshire, it takes at least 20 minutes to pass the 405 - a whole tenth of a mile. My 6 mile commute to work takes an hour as of this month. I would love it if we had a reliable bus system that had its own lane instead of taking over multiple lanes of traffic as they do every morning not to mention I could never make the mile and a half trek down a large hill to the closest bus stop to my house so the bus isn't a viable option for me but trust me I have thought about it
Catheryn,
I don't know specific situation, but have you ever thought of trying Roll With It. They have bike commutting coaches who help you with all the challenges that come along with bike commuting. Just a thought!