Los Angeles Worst City In U.S. For Gridlock
March 6th, 2014I left Southern California just over eight years ago and even after all of this time living in rural New Zealand, driving on empty roads at 5 or 6 PM still feels incredibly strange to me.
Empty or nearly empty beaches in summer is another very weird and wonderful thing. Wow.
You have to make your own Mexican food, though. Those carne asada or chicken burritos with guacamole that are sold pretty much everywhere in SoCal… You can’t buy one of those for any price here.
If I ever go back, I’d almost certainly wreck myself on Mexican food.
Via: CBS:
A recent study has confirmed what many Angelenos already know: Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the nation.
Los Angeles topped the charts for the most gridlocked city in 2013, according to the annual Traffic Scorecard, which is complied by traffic information provider INRIX.
Drivers in LA wasted an average of 64 additional hours behind the wheel due to traffic.
Motorists also experienced longer backups than drivers in dense cities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, the study found.
You know, if you ever need a care package sent from the states, there are plenty of people willing to send them. It may take us a while to do it. Traffic sucks here. 🙂
I hear you Kev. ‘Round these parts a traffic jam is a short line of cars impatiently trailing a large tractor pulling a trailer load of hay.
And yes, one of my favorite So Cal memories is bolting the office early enough to beat the rush and meet the wife at Pancho’s in Manhattan Beach.
Handmade chips & the cook’s “non-gringo” salsa, a Chile Colorado burrito plate, accented by Cadillac margarita’s and followed by a long walk in the surf around sunset.
I’d never move back there in a million years, not even for the music scene I loved so dearly, but certain memories DO still resonate fondly…
…and every once in awhile — usually in the middle of winter at 50 degrees north — I do miss the soothing sound of rolling surf through the bedroom window.
I lived in LA for about eight years, and once you get a taste for good Mexican food, it never leaves you.
Living in England now, and I can think of one pretty okay Mexican restaurant in London. Otherwise it’s a burrito desert.