Honestly how bad is the traffic in or around Los Angeles?
 

I want to know for future reference about both city and highway traffic. If you have time to write out some information about the traffic I appreciate it so thanks.

Pretty fucken bad dude.

Ya get shot at sometimes.

you dont need it
 

move away from the traffic.

Fucking sucks. I only get on the freeway if i have to. Now I have to even wonder about that because people are getting shot on the freeways.

IF you can avoid it DO SO.

Put it this way....if you want to go anywhere you need to do it like during lunch...or after 8 pm or you are fucked.

It's funny how disgruntled we are about the traffic here

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

It's the worst, but I've got all the times and roads down for the quickest time if you need some directions.

just wondering...is it worse than ny?

Ok I understand. Thanks for the information and good looks with the directions!

YES
and I used to commute from NJ to Queens on a daily basis

everyday LA traffic sucks worse than going up the Major Deegan to the GWB while there is a friggin Yankee game that night

It is NOT worse than manhattan! LOL...

Listen, it's bad on the highways and major urban routes at rush hour, but other than that it really isn't that bad.

True. Or when someone gets in an accident and blocks traffic which is quite common.

Traffic is bad in every major city.

Los ANgeles is still the place to live!

shhhh . . . it is terrible . . . and it is why the freeway shootings are so easy, no one is moving

haha trust me you don't wanna know. I hate the 101 freeway

shootings on freeways? lmao... only in america i guess

Yes listen to baddog. Traffic here sux except from the hours of 3am to 5am, but then you have to deal with Cal-Trans closures from 11am til 6 am.

405 fwy traffic is crap and always bumper to bumper. Even non fwy regular streets are crap in the afternoon starting around 2pm. I used to get caught in traffic just driving to Starbucks. It is a pain just to get OUT of the small shopping complex where they have Starbucks, because traffic on the main street is so backed up, everyone is a bad mood and a lot of people just don't let you pass....

well NYC is one thing, I'm talking about the highway traffic
everytime I had to drive in LA area, if it wasn't an off hour I was screwed - it's really brutal going to LAX

Let's put it this way.
Van Nuys -> Newport Beach 55 miles....3 FUCKING HOURS!!!!

yeah that 110 freeway is getting pretty scary

sucks. i don't go east of pacific coast highway unless its absolutely necessary. i'm a beach bitch! lol.

A picture is worth a thousand words. If you go out in Hollywood take a cab unless you want to be Raped by the Valet :mad:

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ry0t you're mom throws great bukkake parties!

Don't forget to mention the baby shit-filled diapers the mexicans like to throw at your windshield while driving on the freeway

it is bad, and SO unpredictable

we had parking lot style traffic at noon on sunday once....

you never know, but you can always count on it

Funny part is people are shocked by the worst day. Saturday!

Man, Saturday's are hideous.

Traffic in LA is fuckin NUTS!
Lets put it like this, if MapQuest says 20 minutes, its gonna take you 50 in LA. At least!

Wow thats bad. Thanks for the information though everyone.

I must learn to plan ahead and everything will be ok. :)

if you come here bring a big gun...cause your definetly going to want to kill yourself

Its horrible. Basically, you need 1 hour to get anywhere 20 minutes away. I recommend traveling between the hours of 1am - 4am. Any other hours and you will encounter sluggish traffic.

last friday, it took me 4 hours to drive from LAX to around Banning on the 10.
traffic was horrible, I started driving at about 2:30pm

man its pretty bad there

Manhattan is worse because of grid lock - we just get parking lot conditions on the freeways, the side streets aren't so bad. It's just that out here anywhere you want to go involves 3 freeways!

You take the 5 to the 101 to the 110 etc. etc.

i don't know how you guys do it, I get very impatient and road rage starts kicking in. Thank god montreal doesn't have it as bad as you guys, although I think most cars have gone missing in our potholes, they are rather large.

Avoid the 10 at all cost. Take the 210 if you need to go that direction.

I used to have to drive the 405 from the Valley to LAX area at 2am, 3-4 nights a week... about 50% of the time it was bumper to bumper for a good chunk of the drive... at 2am... used to really boggle my mind... yesterday, it took me an hour to do 6 miles round trip along Sepulveda at 9pm... yeah the traffic here sucks ass.

kill yourself if you have to drive through LA.

Shut the FUCK UP!

The 210 is my secret. Not many people know it has been opened up clear to the 15. It's my ticket to the Las Vegas and Palm Springs areas.

:mad:

how do you get to palm springs rom the 210?
you have to take the 10 to get to pallm springs, the 210 is north of the 10 so you have to take 10 to palm springs right?

I'm coming from the Valley so I take the 118 East to the 210. I then take the 210 all the way to the 15. Hop on the 15 south for like 2 miles, then hit the 10 east all the way to Palm Springs.

I miss the majority of bullshit traffic on the 10 this way.

Before the 210 was opened up all the way to the 15, I used to have to take the 57 south to pick up the 10. I would end up having to drive through Pomona and Montclair and by the Ontario Airport. Talk about gridlock. The new way (which I described above) shaved a good 30 minutes off my drive to Palm Springs.

That's so damn true.

please stay home . . . thank you