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 Topic: DRIVEThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
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A man from the San Fernando Valley triumphs over gridlock freeway traffic by kayaking to work in Long Beach — 52 miles downstream on the L.A. River.
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Posted by: GeoLobo
on Thursday, October 18, 2007
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Another day where hundreds of thousands of commuters this morning got stuck in another slow grind to work on the southland freeways. Again, today’s grind was much slower because, what else, another BIG RIG accident. This morning it was a double whammy, 2 big rigs on the 210 WB in Pasadena and one on the SB 5 at Roxford. Snarling 2 of the most important arteries to downtown, wasting millions of dollars in gas, lost work hours, wear and tear on vehicles and lost wages and spewing millions of tons of poisoned air for us to breath daily.
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Posted by: bdine
on Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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Starting July 2008, Californians under the age of 18 will be prohibited from using cell phones, using text messaging devices and laptop computers while driving. The cacophony of "Omigods" and unhappy face AIM emoticons is deafening. Now if we can only get the older generations to stop watching TV while driving and look behind themselves before backing up out of the driveway. To use the youth vernacular, that would be "WAY cool."
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Posted by: EdwardHeadington
on Saturday, September 15, 2007
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One of the latest flare-ups in the on-going immigration debate is the potential LAPD policy change for impounding cars of unlicensed drivers. It has been a big issue in the City of Maywood as well as parts of Fresno and other locales throughout the state--now Los Angeles is weighing in. The LA Civilian Policy Commission is expected to consider a possible moratorium on these types of impounds on September 18th. FYI - An estimated 47,000 cars a year belonging to unlicensed/suspended license drivers are impounded by the LAPD. Below is a provocative editorial in the Daily News.
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Posted by: EdwardHeadington
on Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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I’ve never texted “Your Wheels” but I’ve definitely been guility of TWD—Texting While Driving. Or more accurately, TWIAILT—Texting While Inching Along In LA Traffic—although the longer abbreviation has less cachet. Images of that scene from Office Space come to mind: Peter Gibbons is driving to work, gets caught in a traffic jam and is surpassed by an old guy on the sidewalk with a walker. What are you going to do? Make a call with your earpiece in? Turn up the gangsta rap?
Perhaps it’s a function of my not wanting to let my mind idle while sitting in traffic or my growing inability to merely sit still and adopt an “Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” type of Zen. Whatever the case, it’s a hard habit to break. But as the story below suggests, there can be fatal consequences (consider this the memo). And that could give anyone a bad case of the Mondays.
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Posted by: EdwardHeadington
on Thursday, August 02, 2007
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I arrived at the MTA's public hearing on the MTA's fare proposal to find that the meeting room was already full to capacity. A representative from the MTA announced that as long as attendants filled out a speaker form by 10am they would be alllowed to speak for one minute. By the time I filled one out, 287 people had already done so, which I thought was great. Soon thereafter the lobby of the building became full and security stopped allowing people into the building all together. I left and returned several hours later, since I figured if most of the people before me who had signed up to speak followed through it would take at least 4 hours.
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Posted by: FranciscoFrias
on Monday, May 28, 2007
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As some of you may know, the Los Angeles MTA has announced astonishing fare hikes. A day pass will increase from $3 to $5 in July and to $8 by January, 2009, and a monthly pass will go from $52 to $75 in July and to $120 in January, 2009.
Not only will these fare hikes punish poor people, the proposal presented by MTA officials works against the declared goals of our society of reducing petroleum dependence, decreasing traffic, improving air quality, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Posted by: FranciscoFrias
on Monday, May 21, 2007
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The rankings for the top 25 cities in America for “road rage” are out and Los Angeles came in a respectable (but still slightly disappointing) fourth, behind Miami, New York, and Boston.
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Posted by: Ryan_Knoll
on Wednesday, May 16, 2007
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Posted by: Ryan_Knoll
on Thursday, April 12, 2007
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Posted by: FranciscoFrias
on Friday, March 30, 2007
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I just had a run-in with one of those "friendly" people that we all encounter from time to time-- the guy in the elevator who wants to tell you about his weekend, or the person next to you on the plane who, without warning, cheerfully says, "So, what do you do?"
I was filling up at the gas station today and this guy just starts talking to me. He gave me the old, "I just can't believe how expensive gas is," and he told me that "this place is the cheapest in town" (it's not) and he mentioned that this was the third time he'd been here today but on both previous trips, the lines were too long so he figured he'd come back.
He said he'd driven all over the place to find cheap gas and this was easily 3 cents a gallon cheaper than anywhere else.
Then I noticed he was driving a sub-compact that couldn't have more than an 8 gallon tank. And I thought, if people put a fraction of the energy into economizing car trips that they do into complaining about gas prices, they'd be much better off.
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Posted by: Ryan_Knoll
on Monday, March 26, 2007
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The Los Angeles Press Club (LAPC) holds monthly events for its members and invites people from various sectors of society to address issues of the day. Join us on March 29th, along with our co-sponsor, the Reason Foundation, for a scintillating discussion with three experts in the field. Click here for the video news advisory with Rory Johnston
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