Traffic Talk: In Los Angeles, the topic is priority Number One.

City Journal ^ | May 11, 2016 | Fred Siegel

[C19fan]

In December, preparing to escape what turned out to be a mild New York winter for the palmy breezes of Southern California, I was stunned when friends suggested that I think twice about coming to Los Angeles. What could be awful enough to keep my wife and me in the Northeast? I soon discovered that, for every Angeleno I spoke with, the answer was the same. It wasn’t homelessness, crime, or El Niño; it wasn’t that Kobe Bryant was retiring. No, it was traffic: the subject of constant calculation and discussion, a matter of negotiation between friends, spouses, and would-be experts jacked up by computer mapping—which works well, until it doesn’t.

[max americana]

“Or take Topanga Canyon to the PCH - same amount of time when dry,”

Yeah, i do take that route sometimes. I dont like living in a blue city but we do have nice freeways to look at sometimes.