Gridlock Hell - Gadling

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I graduated from UCLA and being near the 405/101 and 405/10 bottlenecks I can say from experience it really freaking sucks. I drove 2 miles in an hour for that 405/101 because it can be sooo backed up. There are several reasons why it is molasses. Firstly the bottleneck is at the bottom of a hill; everyone is braking and that is worse because of the huge disparity in driving speeds, secondly it splits into east and west 101; there are only one lane for each way at the bottleneck, thirdly there is a stupid off ramp right next to the lanes that further slows it down.

I'd like to just say for the record, the bottleneck could be totally diminished if the 405 to 101 west went .25mile beyond the 101 and circled back around and left the two lanes that split to east and west were merged for just west bound 101

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