LA County: You're Stuck in a Traffic Jam Until AT LEAST 2016

This story was also broadcast on the KTLA Morning News. In the
televised story, they interviewed some guy who whined "I wish they'd
do something about it" (referring to the traffic congestion on SoCal
freeways). Well, "they" aren't gonna do JACK about it for at least 10
years, so if you want a solution you'll need to take matters into your
own hands. MOVE from your isolated, accessible-only-by-automobile
suburban sprawl home and find a place close to where you work or, if
your office is near a station, move close to a public transit stop.
Sitting there whining while you're stuck in gridlock isn't going to
help you.

http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-me-trans...ll=ktla-news-1

In north Orange County, Interstate 5 is a 10-lane superhighway, with
the broad shoulders, terra-cotta sound walls and attractive
landscaping one might expect along California's main north-south
artery.

Just short of Los Angeles County, however, the artery clogs. It
narrows to six lanes, three each way, and sheds its modern features,
becoming a 1950s-vintage roadway.

Right about there, many northbound motorists get mad.

"The commute out of Orange County is impossible," fumed Paul Samarin,
a Newport Beach lawyer, while gassing up near his home in Norwalk. "It
bottlenecks and it stops."

Drivers pay the price in time and frustration.

According to plans, commuters will have to wait until 2016 to see
what is predicted to be a $1.4-billion expansion from the Orange
County line through the L.A. County cities of La Mirada, Norwalk,
Santa Fe Springs and part of Downey to the junction with the 605
Freeway.