El Cerrito California Newspaper

El Cerrito California Newspaper

El Cerrito California Newspaper

Posted on: December 12, 2011 - 8:26 pm
by Admin

It's a bold man who can claim to tell you how to beat the freeway traffic in Southern California, the most grid-locked place in the nation, but if anyone can it has to be someone called Dr Roadmap. David Rizzo, to give him his regular name, is a one-time commuter columnist for several newspapers in Southern California, a frequent radio traffic reporter, wrote the map/book Freeway Alternates, and for some light relief invented the board game Road Rage!!!

Los Angeles Traffic

So how bad is the traffic in Southern California? Well, the facts tell the story – as bad as it gets. Los Angeles is the worst place in the nation for traffic jams, followed by, not New York but the San Francisco and Oakland area. Drivers are more likely to get stuck in traffic driving from LA to Disneyland as through the heart of New York. The average Los Angeles motorist spends an average of 93 hours per year going nowhere. That's almost three working weeks, sitting behind the wheel at zero miles per hour. In Los Angeles and Orange County motorists waste over 400 million gallons of gas every year just sitting in traffic jams.