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Re: Gridlocked: Which cities have the worst traffic? (BBC) Posted by EGD [Email]  (#663) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from EGD) on Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:21:45
In Reply to: Gridlocked: Which cities have the worst traffic? (BBC), JohnA   [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:18:32
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It's 'journalism' like that BBC report that makes me question just about everything I see on 'the news.'
The BBC gent in the SAAB starts out in Hollywood at 8am and he's going to Santa Monica which is essentially due west of Hollywood. He correctly mentions people taking the surface streets instead of the freeways but it then shows a shot of the 101 Fwy -- one way to get there -- but from Hollywood almost no one gets on the 101 west to get to the 405 south in order to go over Sepulveda Pass with all the traffic associated with going up and over a mountain range. They'd go south on Highland to Sunset or Santa Monica Blvd or, if they were a true glutton for punishment, to the Santa Monica Fwy westbound.
Later in the report, he talks about finally getting on the freeway -- the 405, in this case -- but he's driving east on Sunset Blvd and he's turning right (southbound) to get on the 405 South. For those of you that don't know, Sunset runs east-west across LA and to make the turn he's about to make is nonsensical. If he merely continued traveling west on Sunset and then south on, say, Barrington, he'd be in Santa Monica. In other words, there's no reason he'd be facing east on Sunset at that point unless he had absolutely no clue where he was. Oh, and I've never seen the 405 that empty between 8am and 9am on a workday -- I suspect his report was filmed on a Sunday morning.
In other words, the BBC filmed a bunch of visual images that only reinforce the story in their minds but are, in fact, nonsensical and made up. Again, what else do they show us that doesn't make sense but makes the point they want to make?
Traffic in Moscow? Yes, it can be brutal but we drove there this past June and avoided rush hours and had almost no problems getting around at all. It was pretty much like driving in Boston. And it was an absolute picnic compared to trying to go down I-95 from CT and across the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the GW Bridge in NYC one Friday night before this year's New Years Weekend!
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