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That fearsome Los Angeles traffic is about to get much worse this weekend: A 10-mile stretch of the nation’s busiest highway, Interstate 405, will be shut for 53 hours as part of a $1 billion ...
Los Angeles remained the nation’s traffic jam hotspot even as the pandemic slashed commuting. L.A. congestion required 27% more of a driver’s time in 2020 — still No. 1 among the 57 larger U ...
The chart below plots average speeds on Los Angeles County’s stretch of the 405 in both directions during the last five Thanksgiving weeks. Though overall traffic was worst in 2019 before ...
Los Angeles County, all 4,000 square miles of it, has a way of insulating and isolating mayhem, man-made or otherwise.
President Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would begin 24-hour operations to clear the enormous backlog, and the White House has touted progress on that front. But the traffic jam ...
A group of protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war caused a traffic jam for Tuesday morning commuters as they marched onto the Southbound 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles.
“If it were illegal to do this, traffic would shut down in Los Angeles,” says Peter Chesney, an urban historian and Vanderbilt University postdoctoral fellow who’s working on a forthcoming ...
Los Angeles remained the nation’s traffic jam hotspot even as the pandemic slashed commuting. L.A. congestion required 27% more of a driver’s time in 2020 — still No. 1 among the 57 larger U ...