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by sgt 949 days ago
It's funny how LA traffic in the movies (especially from the 80s and 90s) always looks pretty good. Driving fast through those hills and canyons.
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Those roads are also fast in real life, not a lot of people live out in those more undeveloped canyon parts to generate a ton of traffic. Tons of car and motorcycle clubs race up and down roads in the santa monica mountains and angeles national forest every day. They will actually ride your ass to try and get you to pull over at a scenic overview if you are too slow.
A lot of it is like that if you stay outside downtown.
Or just outside of rush hour.
rush hours*
Kind of like all the car commercials today, they never show people stuck in traffic.
All you need is a long involved permit that lets you block the road for half a day, and you could experience it too!